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Random WordPress Plugins: Rotating Banners, Header Art, Images, Quotes, and Content on Your Blog

February 28, 2007 – 9:04 am

Some people like to have their header art or banners change with every page reload, making their site look different on each page visit. Some people want to showcase their artwork or photography by having a image change randomly as a visitor moves through the site. Others want to feature posts from the past or […]

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Contact Form WordPress Plugins

February 27, 2007 – 2:18 pm

As noted in Subscribe, Email Mailing List, Blog Update Alerts, and Newsletter WordPress Plugins and WordPress Plugins for Comments from the month long series of WordPress Plugins, there are a lot of ways for you to keep in contact with your blog’s readers. There are also different ways for them to get in contact with […]

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WordPress Plugins for Comments

February 26, 2007 – 5:10 pm

There are so many WordPress Plugins that deal with blog comments, I’ve been working on this post since a month before this month long series on WordPress Plugins began. I’ve not covered all of them, so please include your favorites and why in the comments below. There are so many things you can do with […]

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Monetizing WordPress Plugins

February 25, 2007 – 8:09 am

There are a lot of ways you can add ads to your WordPress blog. As part of my month long series on WordPress Plugins, I thought I’d take a glimpse into WordPress Plugins that help you monetize your WordPress blog. WordPress Plugins that add ads to your blogs may assign advertising blocks to specific areas, […]

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Digg This Feature on WordPress.com Blogs

February 24, 2007 – 10:11 am

One of the consistently most requested add-on features for WordPress.com bloggers has been adding a Digg This style button to their blogs. It’s now here. There are great step-by-step illustrated instructions on the WordPress.com FAQ called “How Do I Digg”, but basically they are: Register with Digg. Publish your post. Search Digg to find if […]

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Post Meta Data WordPress Plugins

February 24, 2007 – 8:46 am

An often overlooked part of your WordPress posts is the Post Meta Data Section. This is the section at the bottom of your post that lists who posted the content and when, and may include the categories, tags, bio information, and a lot of other details you might want readers to know about the post […]

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WordPress Plugins That Help You Write Code

February 23, 2007 – 1:18 pm

If you write about WordPress, Javascript, CSS, HTML/XHTML, mathematics, calculus, science, research, and a lot of other code, programming, and calculations, you are going to need to be able to write code in your blog. I can tell you from personal experience, this is a painful and…extraordinarily frustrating process, to be nice about it. Since […]

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Connecting Articles in Series: In Series WordPress Plugin

February 22, 2007 – 10:04 am

As part of my ongoing series of 30 Days of WordPress Plugins, I’m proud to feature one of my favorites, the In-Series WordPress Plugin. For those who write single posts on your blog, disconnected but related to each other, you might not need this. But for those of us who blog article series, each one […]

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Which WordPress Plugins Does Lorelle on WordPress Use?

February 22, 2007 – 8:09 am

As part of my month long series about WordPress Plugins, I was recently asked which WordPress Plugins I use on Lorelle on WordPress. Do you want to know which WordPress Plugins I have on this blog? The answer is: none. This blog is hosted by the free WordPress.com blog service. Part of the price for […]

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Blog Navigation WordPress Plugins: Related, Recent, Most Popular Posts and More

February 21, 2007 – 3:02 pm

As part of this month long series about WordPress Plugins, I’ve been digging deep to find some great WordPress Plugins to help you increase the navigation of your WordPress blog. Navigational tools include showcasing recent posts, related posts, most popular posts, posts by category, breadcrumbs, tags, and so much more. I’ve come up with some […]

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WordPress Plugins To Help You Administer Your Blog

February 20, 2007 – 8:03 pm

Running a blog, whether for yourself, to make money, or with multiple bloggers, is work. Sure, blogging is fun, but there are a lot of things you need to do with your blog to keep it in top working order and shape. Let’s look at some useful WordPress Plugins that will help your blog stay […]

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Ultimate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugin for Dummies

February 19, 2007 – 4:49 pm

NOTE: Since WordPress 2.1, the Ultimate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugin has had some major problems and the author has decided to stop support, especially now that WordPress 2.3 has tagging built-in. Much thanks, appreciation, and honors goes to author Christine Davis, who gave so much time and energy to supporting one of the most powerful […]

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Video, Music, Podcasts, Audio, and Multimedia WordPress Plugins

February 17, 2007 – 6:58 am

We used to be happy with words and pictures. Now we have to add lots of noise and moving pictures to our WordPress blogs. The visual and audible web is here today, and videos, podcasts, music, and all types of multimedia are flooding the Internet bands. Bloggers are leading the way by hosting and showcasing […]

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Subscribe, Feeds, RSS, Email Mailing List, Blog Update Alerts, and Newsletter WordPress Plugins

February 16, 2007 – 5:27 am

Asking someone to “subscribe” to your blog used to mean signing them up on an email list. On a regular basis you would send out an email from that list with news about your site or blog encouraging them to return for a visit. Today’s notion of subscribing to a blog goes way beyond an […]

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Testing Readers: Survey, Polling, Rating, Testing, and Reviewing WordPress Plugins

February 15, 2007 – 1:38 pm

Polls, surveys, ratings, tests, exams, and reviews expand the native interactive nature of blogs with collaboration between the reader and the blogger. They help the blogger to ask specific questions and get a measurable response. Ratings WordPress Plugins come in two formats. One which allows the reader to rate a post or its content and […]

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