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I Have Strong Feelings About Blogging
Actually, they’re very strong feelings. And they’re somewhat elitist. I can sum them up like this. You shouldn’t own a blog if.. You cannot install your own blog (and it only takes 5 minutes!) You...
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My last post elicited strong feelings from other people and not just myself. In fact, Jenn posted it on her Facebook Timeline and people came from all over to reply. I was really hoping for something...
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Make Growmap AntiSpam Compatible With WPTouch in Mobile Browsers
Growmap AntiSpam and WPTouch Mobile don’t play well together in Chrome for Android A few days ago, Maggie posted in BloggerPR about how Growmap Anti-Spam wasn’t working right on the mobile version of...
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CAPTCHAS Suck and How to Make Them Suck Less
Did you know that CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”? Probably not. When you think about these tools to stop spam on websites that use some...
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60+ Keyboard Shortcuts All Bloggers Need to Know
I’m pretty proficient at using keyboard shortcuts. In fact, if programs and browsers would let me, I probably wouldn’t even need a mouse or trackpad. Of course, this shaves of a large amount of time...
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Jetpack and Forms: A Quick How-To
A while back I installed JetPack on one of my blogs. There’s a lot of handy tools from the developers of WordPress in JetPack. You have access to them by default when you’re hosted but not when you...
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If you’re a WordPress user, you may have used Cufon to make your titles appear on custom fonts. This isn’t a terrible way, but every extra plugin slows down your website. Plus, people who don’t use...
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WordPress Database: The Basics
Once upon a time, everything on your site actually existed in hard copy in PHP or HTML files. This isn’t so with WordPress. The script stores everything in a database. Every post, comment, link,...
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WordPress Database: Shrinking the Database
In the first post about understanding the WordPress database, I described the basics and how to change options and your password directly from the database. This post will be all around shrinking your...
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