A feedback from one of my customers have prompted this article in WordPress Guide Series – Installing Plugins and Themes. The more we work with technology and get accastomed to the way thing work we stop realizing that many people come to WordPress without the knowledge we take for granted!

Installing Plugins and New Themes on your WordPress blog is one of the tasks that is considered the very basic and yet – concept is absolutely alien to many. This post will close the gap and cover in details everything you need to know about the process and ensure that you will not be left behind… so dig in!

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WordPress 2.7 introduced new way comments displayed on your blog and also a new function to display it wp_list_comments. But what do you do if you need more control of How comments displayed and What is included into each comment?

I had to solve this problem in order to get WP Twitip ID plugin working on my blog again! Here are detailed steps on how you too can take control over comments.php loop in WordPress 2.7…

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WordPress Security is a *HOT* topic and many, including myself have suffered from a blog been destroyed by some dumb script kiddie who managed to get his hands on script that exploits some vulnerability.

Protecting your blog from idiots like that is a MUST but to be quite honest absolute security simply doesn’t exist and we have to make a choice between usability and security and do our best to find that Practical WordPress Security Balance!

In this post I will discuss 5 steps you should take to ensure that balance and achieve Practical WordPress Security you can live with!

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