WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

In my communications with friends, customers and fellow bloggers I have discovered that one of the most daunting tasks they dread is Upgrading Plugins On their WordPress blog. And I can’t really blame them because one small mistake can make your blog completely inoperable and take it off the net for a few hours …

That Is If You Don’t Watch My Video Tutorial!

I have created a complete video tutorial where I show step-by-step how I personally do this task and I show it on my live blog, the one you are reading right now…

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Last night, just as always I decided to login into my blog and do some posting, thinking, editing … you know the normal stuff any blogger does just to be greeted by a note:

Error 403

We’re sorry but we could not fulfill your request…

Your Internet Protocol address is listed on a blacklist of addresses involved in malicious or illegal activity. See the listing below for more details on specific blacklists and removal procedures…

Being a “known spamer” who constantly engages in “illegal activities” using my blog I was mildly surprised and decided to investigate…

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On November 12 I have posted an offer “Allow Me To Solve Your Biggest WordPress Problem” that quickly became very popular and generated quite a few questions. I have answered most on the spot and hopefully provided solutions to most and then later followed by a post where I go deeper into details on couple problems.

Popularity of this post made me wonder if I can do this on a more permanent bases and help you solve your WordPress problems. This post is the first in a series that will follow and I plan to post it every couple weeks and help you fix whatever issues you might be having with your self-hosted blog…

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On pages of “WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er” I do my best to present meaningful information to help you build your own blog based on my favorite platform WordPress and make it a truly interactive Web 2.0 portal. Helping people proves to be beneficial not only to the blog itself (rewards via steady traffic and increasing readership) but also to many visitors.

But as everyone else I need to take some time off during this month and will be spending the last week of December in ski resort with a limited time that I can dedicate to the blog itself. Calling on anyone interested to become a guest blogger!

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First of all I would like to thank everyone who joined my community and apologize for delay in keeping my promise. Even though I have decided not to pay attention to the Contest I still would like to personally thank everyone who joined my community and it is even more valuable to me because I know you didn’t do it for the wrong reasons…

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This guest post was submitted by Marco Richter, Publisher of www.marcorichter.net . (Use my Contact page to learn how you can be featured!)

Many bloggers get frustrated sometimes when working with the built-in editors of WordPress. The code editor does not provide enough options to make you post look the way you want it and the WYSIWYG-editor can also be annoying in many ways.

But there´s no obligation to use either of them as there are several third-party tools to replace the built-in editors of your WordPress blog. I´d like to introduce 4 of which I have tested and found them better to use.

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