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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Goal of this Video Tutorial is simple and one sided: show you how to get more Targeted Traffic by using Sharing more effective! Word of mouth is a powerful tool but you have to ask yourself a question – are you using it effectively?

Learn to Share Your Blog Effectively For Targeted Traffic – watch the Video Tutorial:

And please, don’t forget to SHARE this video post using options provided below and knowledge you have just gained!

Pingbacks and Trackbacks is one of the perhaps least understood concepts by new bloggers and one that generates the most questions. Why is it? I think it is mainly because everyone heard about the power it gives to the bloggers but not everyone understood how to use it correctly.

Add the abundance of the trackback SPAM to the mix and it creates a brew many choke on. In this post I’m not planning replicate the efforts of other people but instead share links to The Best Of The Best resources that should teach you EVERYTHING you need to know about using [tag-tec]Trackbacks[/tag-tec] and [tag-tec]Pingbacks[/tag-tec] and Protecting your own blog from the Trackback SPAM…

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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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Load time of the WordPress blog is one thing that many bloggers strive to achieve in order to sustain the mass number of visits. And while we do have some control over some of the factors that can greatly help you speed up your blog – you will need to make decisions you might not like …

In this post I’m not going to cover detailed info on caching etc. There are plenty of other posts that explain how to create a minimalistic WordPress blog that loads super fast. I’m here to share how to run a Web 2.0 enabled WordPress blog and still have it load reasonably fast!

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In this part of my WordPress Guide I want to build on interest generated by previous posts and provide a solution to what many of my readers consider to be one of the biggest hustles in WordPress – Image Management.

While it might not be as complete answer as I would like it to be but short of doing a core re-write this is best I could possibly find. In this post I will talk about how to enhance your WordPress Image Management system to make it more user friendly and hopefully make you more productive…

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I had every intention of making this post part of my WordPress Guide series and even begun getting the information together. I always look at security of every “internet facing” application or service as integral part of the design and not something to be addressed later and was going to cover some basics here.

But basics have been covered in multiple posts by multiple bloggers and to make this post stand out – I would have to make it better. Now, that is quite a bit of work unless there is a better solution!

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