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Going Viral: Analyzing the Shared Characteristics Behind Viral Blog Posts

August 30, 2012

You can’t swing a cat around the blogosphere without hitting a post that purports to teach you how to “go viral”. It is an obvious topic to cover – all… Read more

Tutorials

desire, going viral, persistence, start here, stories, viral, viral blog posts
How to Create a Local Copy of a Live WordPress Site

August 29, 2012

Update: This is an old article (from 2012), and as such it may contain information that is now obsolete. In Monday’s tutorial on creating a local WordPress site, I said… Read more

Tips & Tricks

local wordpress site, mamp, phpmyadmin, start here, xampp
How to Edit and Customize Your WordPress Admin Sidebar Menu

August 28, 2012

We’ve been talking a fair bit about optimizing and improving the WordPress admin area over the last few weeks. It started with removing unwanted menu items from the admin sidebar,… Read more

Tips & Tricks

admin menu, admin menu editor, admin sidebar, start here
How to Create a Local WordPress Website in Windows with Xampp

August 27, 2012

I believe that all WordPress users should have a local installation of WordPress on their PC. The benefits are numerous – you can test themes, plugins, and fiddle with a… Read more

Tips & Tricks

local wordpress installation, start here, windows, xampp
How to Improve the WordPress Admin Area [Expert Interviews]

August 24, 2012

Cast your mind back to when you were completely new to WordPress. It was all rather overwhelming, wasn’t it? What is now so familiar was once alien and intimidating. And… Read more

Tutorials

dashboard widgets, quickpress, start here, usability, wordpress admin area, wordpress admin sidebar, wordpress dashboard
How to Quickly Learn Keyboard Shortcuts and Email Twice as Fast

August 23, 2012

When you work on a computer all day (as most of us do), you learn to appreciate the power of keyboard shortcuts. I don’t know what I’d do with myself… Read more

Tutorials

chrome, email, gmail, keyboard shortcuts, keyrocket, start here
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

Tutorials

admin menu, Code Snippets, dashboard widgets, floating admin menu, screen options, start here, wordpress dashboard
The 3 Great WordPress Social Media Plugins Worth Checking Out

August 17, 2012

You probably don’t need me to tell you how important social media is when it comes to building an online presence. Each of the major social networks represents an opportunity… Read more

Plugins

digg digg, easy tweet embed, plugins, shareaholic, social media, social media plugins, social media widget, start here, wp mashsocial widget
Relevanssi: The Best Search Engine for WordPress?

August 10, 2012

Let’s face it – search is king. When it comes to navigation, people love search. They’re used to it. Google has become so popular that the word itself is now… Read more

Plugins

plugins, relevanssi, start here, wordpress search
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

Tutorials

security, start here, wordpress