Although upgrading WordPress is a lot easier than people think, and, if your host provides the Fantastico script, it can be as simple as a couple of clicks, this plugin will still be the answer to a lot of people’s prayers and is destined to become part of the core WP features: WordPress Automatic Upgrade [...]

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I’ve helped a few people to get started with WordPress, and often the biggest difficulty for them comes with using an FTP client to install new plugins and themes, and knowing where to put them etc. This new plugin from Anirudh Sanjeev should solve this problem: OneClick. Now admittedly you do have to install this [...]

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Being one of the few people who (occasionally) reads the notifications in my WordPress dashboard, I thought I’d check out the latest plugin releases and I’m glad I did, as I discovered a very useful plugin that helps you ensure that all of your others are current. WP Plugins Tracker does just that, and is [...]

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There’s no doubt that one of the first things you should do when starting a new blog or website is to buy yourself a domain name. The costs are slight, but the advantages in SEO, ‘branding’, and simply being able to take your links with you no matter how many times you change hosts will [...]

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Find out where your readers went (within your blog at least) with this cool plugin: Where did they go from here? Simple installation, just upload and activate, and this results in the line : “Readers who viewed this page, also viewed” appearing at the bottom of your post, with up to 5 onward links displayed. [...]

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There are an ever increasing number of blogs jumping on the DoFollow train, all promising to pass on the linky goodness if you leave a comment, but how do you know they’re telling the truth? You could of course, right-click and examine the source code of their blog, which will be hours of fun for [...]

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PHP widget not working properly? This fix for WP2.2 will take care of it.

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Just over a month ago, across my 3 blogs I was receiving around 500 spam comments a day to moderate. I had the latest versions of Akismet and Bad Behavior installed, and although none were reaching the blog, I still had over 500 comments to visually scan in the moderation queue, in order to remove [...]

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Well, I can’t promise you that, but I can help you achieve a little more fame, through yet another Blogger award scheme. BloggingToFame.com is another site devoted to blogger awards, but with some serious cash prizes on offer. There’s $25,000 to the top rated blog, and $100,000 total prize fund along with the exposure that [...]

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Two great plugins that allow you to insert video and audio into your Wordpress blog.

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