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Best newsletter service for blogger

RSS feeds are the default choice if someone wants to follow your blog updates. But there are a lot of people who don’t know anything about feed, RSS, Atom and so on. So, why don’t you offer a newsletter to let them follow yor updates via email? There are several services to accomplish this task, some of [...]

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Include jQuery from Google in WordPress

If you want to use jQuery JavaScript library in your WordPress theme, the best choice is to load the version hosted on Google servers instead of the local one shipped by default with WordPress. To load jQuery from Google you have to edit the functions.php file of your theme adding these lines of code: if( !is_admin()){ [...]

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Web hosting review: eApps business hosting

I’ve tried several hosting companies during last years and eApps is one of the best I’ve found. They offer a lot of different hosting plans from $9.90/month to $225/month and beyond. eApps offers both Virtual Private Server and Dedicated Server. Also on cheap plans eApps offer ssh root access to your VPS so you can [...]

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How to avoid the same meta description on Tag archives with Thesis theme

Thesis is a great theme for WordPress (this blog uses it ) but I don’t like the way it handles the meta tag description on all the Tag archive pages. In fact, Thesis repeats the blog descrption on all these pages. In order to avoid this, you have to edit the file \lib\classes\head.php (around line [...]

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Custom image header for Thesis theme in WordPress

Are a you a Thesis user? Do you wanna put a custom image and a banner in your blog header? Follow this tutorial to learn how to do it. Visit the Thesis Option page of you blog and deselect these checkboxes: Show site name in header and Show site tagline in header. Edit your custom_functions.php file ed [...]

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WordPress 2.9.1 fixes cron job error

WordPress 2.9 has a small bug with the cron jobs feature, so scheduling posts ahead of the time was not working correctly. But WordPress community acted pretty fast to fix everything, and the new release is already available. You should see a notice to upgrade on your dashboard. Otherwise you can point your browser on WordPress.org [...]

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WordPress 2.8.6

WordPress 2.8.6 is out. This release fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges. If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended. The first problem is an XSS vulnerability in Press This discovered by Benjamin Flesch. The second problem, discovered by Dawid [...]

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Article Directory for WordPress

Article Directory is a new plugin for WordPress that let you show a list of articles in parent and child categories. Here it is a list of the features of this plugin: Amount of articles in parent and child categories. Category description in link title. Showing the empty categories. Using hierarchy for subcategories. Exclude selected categories. Simple and handy design using CSS. [...]

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Speed up WordPress using compression

Here’s a tip from Brad Ney about how to speed up WordPress load times using web server compression: First of all, upload a test file like “test.php” on your web server. This file must contain this line: <?php phpinfo(); ?> View this file with a web browser and check if “zlib” is enabled by your hosting provider. It it’s [...]

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WordPress 2.8.5 is out

A new version of WordPress is available. If you’re running a WordPress blog, you’d better get on it. The headline changes in this release are: A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen. Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated. Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted [...]

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