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What Oprah Winfrey Can Teach You About Making WordPress Better

August 22, 2012

“Aha moment”: a moment of sudden realization, inspiration, insight, recognition, or comprehension (Merriam-Webster) You know someone has achieved the pinnacle of popular recognition when they coin a phrase that is consequently added to… Read more

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addquicktag, better internal link search, Code Snippets, comment reply notification, custom css, dfe, distraction free editor, lossless image optimization, newsletter sign-up, plugins, relevanssi, wordpress comments, wordpress search, wp smush.it, wp-table reloaded
8 Steps to a Spotless WordPress Dashboard

August 20, 2012

I can be a bit of a neat freak at times. However, that cannot be said of my blog’s WordPress dashboard in the past. Random meta boxes and superfluous menu… Read more

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admin menu, Code Snippets, dashboard widgets, floating admin menu, screen options, start here, wordpress dashboard
10 WordPress Code Snippets that Replace Plugin Functionality

August 15, 2012

Here at ManageWP, we love plugins. Our Plugins of the Month series alone is proof of that. But there’s something that we love arguably just as much – code snippets.… Read more

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Code Snippets, default widgets, favicon, feedburner, generator meta tag, login logo, Maintenance Mode, plugins, user profiles
The 10 Things You Need to Know to Secure Your WordPress Site

August 9, 2012

Security is typically something that many of us don’t give a second’s thought to until it is too late. If we are lucky, someone else’s misfortune galvanizes us into action.… Read more

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security, start here, wordpress
Mastering Social Sharing for WordPress [an Interview with Leo Widrich of Buffer]

August 8, 2012

Social sharing is one of the most powerful forms of blog promotion that you can engage in. According to a recently published Shareaholic study, Facebook alone accounts for 5.65% of… Read more

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buffer, digg digg, leo widrich, social media, social sharing, wordpress
How to Blog: 50 Tips, Guides and Tutorials that Will Make You an Expert Blogger

August 7, 2012

Blogging is now well and truly mainstream. There are more reasons to blog than I can possibly count. You can do it as a hobby, or as part of your… Read more

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blog content, blog design, blog promotion, blogging, email list, start here
How to Quickly and Easily Create an Official Page for Your WordPress Plugin

August 6, 2012

If you want your free WordPress plugin to be a success, you have to engage in a little promotional work. Whilst WordPress.org is a great resource for plugins (despite the… Read more

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plugin development, plugin promotion, plugins, wordpress, wordpress.org
Get Your Email Organized: Tips to Cut the Time Spent with Email

August 3, 2012

Email is definitely not perfect and is one of the rare modern technologies that has not progressed much since it’s inception. I spend a lot of time every day in my Gmail… Read more

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email, start here
How to Improve the WordPress Plugins Repository [Expert Interviews]

August 2, 2012

The WordPress Plugins Repository is a truly special place. For WordPress users, it is an enormous resource, offering up an unprecedented depth of functionality via its tens of thousands of… Read more

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plugin developers, plugins, start here, wordpress, wordpress plugins repository, wordpress.org
What Actions to Take with 5 Popular Blogging Metrics

August 1, 2012

The following is a guest post from Janet Aronica of Shareaholic. I’m a bit of a fitness geek. I love tracking my food and exercise in this one fitness app.… Read more

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Google Analytics, metrics, shareaholic, social networks, social sharing, start here, traffic sources