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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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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In this post i want to share a details on how to move WordPress to new host, Hostgator in this specific case, with 0 down time. Information provided is based on my recent personal experience of relocating my WordPress blog from Site5 hosting account to Hostgator and ensuring that I had no outage period and yet was able to verify that entire process worked without a glitch.

There are several steps to this process and each requires verification to ensure that everything will function properly but once you get them all right - you will ensure that your visitors will not be impacted during your move and if you rely on your blog as income source, I think it is very important. Not only does it allow your to reduce any nuisance but also avoid unprofessional appearance during your move of WordPress blog to new host.

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Ever wanted to ACTUALLY Make Money Blogging? Wonder how it can be done? Reality is simple and yet complicated at same time. To make money blogging you have to be able to accomplish several things and get each of them just right. You need to know how to build the blog optimized for Search Engines and social interaction, how to build income streams into it to automate process and how to drive traffic to your blog - these tasks are among the most important.

When I created my Web 2.0 Wealth product I had one goal in mind - make it simple for even a complete newbie to accomplish those tasks and yet complex enough that even intermediate bloggers can benefit from it and then I provided a surefire way to make money in 7 days or less (guaranteed only if you are a US customer, for other customers might take longer)! Mind you, I do not promise to make you rich but to help you earn that first, most important dollar online!

And now as part of special arrangement with Yaro Starak you can get my package for a limited time at $20 off, instantly! Visit his blog for complete review and offer details or read the rest of the post if you want to know WHY you should care …

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A few days ago I have made an offer to give back to community by providing solutions to WordPress problems. Post “Allow Me To Solve Your Biggest WordPress Problem” was well accepted and many people posted their questions. I have done my best to provide “quick hit” solutions where it was appropriate but some problems required more extensive research and longer answer.

This post will address following problems posted by my readers:

• How to get Javascript based ads and widgets to behave right in sidebars, headers and footers
• A way to add the logo seamlessly into the header in the most SEO friendly and seamless manner possible

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