WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

WordPress Sidebar is the prime real estate for every blogger, no matter if you are trying to earn or simply gain more exposure and perhaps provide interactivity to your blog. While content is the king - sidebar is your virtual vault and making sure its space properly and most efficiently allocated one task we all go through.

In Second Part of Customizing Your WordPress Theme tutorial I wanted to dedicate enough time to talk about things that are fairly basic and don’t require much of technical knowledge and yet, hard to do unless you know how. I want to show How To EXTEND Your Sidebar Functionality and help you understand how it will work to your advantage…

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WordPress Theme is responcible for the visual whoomp of your blog. It is a single, most important element that creates the Look and Feel of your blog and determines the visual message you send to your visitors. It is also one element of your WordPress blog that will either help you or drive your visitors away!

No matter how well crafted are your posts, how well research and presented your content - if the first impression is negative - your chances of retaining the visitor are slim. This article of WordPress Guide Series will concentrate on the task that according to the poll on this blog is The Most Painful Task:

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Second post of WordPress Guide Series, Dissection of WordPress Theme will address the second most important aspect of working with your WordPress blog - the look and feel of your blog.

WordPress theme is what controls that aspect and while we can use one of the freely available themes a little tweak done in right place can go long way toward creating a unique look. And that is exactly what we will discuss in this post - what files are responsible for what aspect of your WordPress blog look …

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First in a series of WordPress Guide posts this one is dedicated to an overview of what it is we work with on daily bases. How is our system built and most importantly what you, as WordPress blogger, need to know about it to perform maintenance, such as backup, upgrade, etc.

I have wrote on several occasions that we need to know how our blog works in order to be most efficient bloggers but haven’t done enough to help you. Dissection of File Structure will be a direct step toward creating a new bread of WordPress Guides - visual and with descriptions so you could easily bookmark it and reference…

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I have a Love and Hate relashionship with WordPress. I love the functionality and extendability it provides and hate how often it changes. I do welcome the improvements but the guys behind the core need to slow down. It was actually nice not to have to upgrade for a couple of months due to a break they took.

Well, WordPress 2.5 is scheduled to be released on March 10 and from what I have seen it has some huge changes on Admin backend…

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I’m a Stats Junkie! I track a multitude of the variables on my blog and use them to determine effectiveness of my blog posts, my readership and structure my Blog Design and Marketing Strategies based on what I learn. I have to admit that sometime I think I spend too much time on these tasks but hey - it beats the Guesswork!

Since multiple stats packages present us with a slightly different information I tend to use each one for a very specific tasks and performance evaluation. But implementing all the tracking introduces tremendous extra load times to our blogs and in this post I will share how an implementation of ONE plugin decreased loading speed of my blog 10 times!

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Anytime I wake up and login to my blog admin interface and I see a new version of WordPress made available - I look at details of the release. I have to know HOW URGENT the upgrade is and how high on my list of priorities that task should go.

WordPress 2.3.3 made available today is an URGENT Security Fix -  make sure to upgrade ASAP! Well, actually - you don’t have to upgrade…

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