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Wordpress 2.7 ‘Coltrane’ was released today. I noticed when I logged in today.  ‘Coltrane’ is Max Mullenwegs (the Wordpress founder) favorite saxophone player.
So I upgraded immediately (in under 1 minute using the Automatic Upgrade Plugin) and I liked what I saw.
As promised, there’s a completely new interface which I like. Comprehensive and conveniently arranged.
There are [...]

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There’s a lot of attention lately for Wordpress security issues. Blogs get hacked quite often and on forums I see a lot of desperate cries for help. I know how it feels. This blog got hacked once and it’s a real pain in the butt.
Before I go into some Wordpress security issues, let me emphasize [...]

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Yaro Starak opens his Blog Mastermind program again.
Blog Mastermind is an outstanding online blogging course allowing you to make money with your blog.
It consists of a 27 part step-by-step training program delivered in weekly lessons, a series of audio interviews with professional bloggers like Darren Rowse, Brian Clark and Andy Wibbels, personal advice on his [...]

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When you’re running a serious blog with quality content, chances are at some point you want to monetize it in some way. Adsense ads, banners, links, donations, reviews or affiliate programs, whatever.
But if you take the jump to monetize your blog, it implies that you’ll need readers first. After all, who would see your offers [...]

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Sometimes you want to tweak your Wordpress theme a bit.
Adding extra or new graphics with different dimensions, changing the templates, a bit of extra search engine optimization, replacing a specific part or maybe installing a better solution for something you’re using now… whatever.
I’m not talking about adding a widget or activating a plugin. That’s easy. [...]

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I’ve changed my WordPress Database Backup Plugin for the WP-DBManager.
It’s not that I wasn’t happy with the Wordpress backup plugin, but the WP database manager has a big advantage.
I’m NOT a database specialist, so don’t ask me why it happens (if you do know, share it with me in a comment), but over [...]

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I just read Comment Spam Warning Signs from Andy Beard. Deciding which comments are spam, irrelevant, for link juice only or positive and constructive is one of the most difficult tasks I have to do while running this blog.
In the above mentioned post, Alex Goad of Net Frontier Marketing describes the problem very nicely:
This is [...]

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Today you and I HAVE to talk about conversion rates and more profits. Yes, HAVE and I’ll show you why in a minute.
But first let me explain why improving your conversion rates is so important with respect to more profits. Maybe you are aware of this already, but I just LOVE to write this. Every [...]

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I was testing Zemanta today on this blog (Wordpress).
That’s a Firefox add-on that “Have your browser understand what you are blogging about and suggest pictures, links, articles and tags to make your posts more vibrant” (from the Zemanta site).
All you have to do to install the add-on is click the download button at their site [...]

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Wordpress is about to issue a new version: 2.5. Actually, it’s over due, as it was announced several times before, but I’m confident it’s coming one of these days.
So, how does this affect you and your blog?
Well, first and foremost you should always upgrade to the latest version if it has the latest security fixes. [...]

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