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Twitter Chatter: Why I Design and Develop on the Thesis Theme Framework

May 24, 2011
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Why I Design and Develop on the Thesis Theme Framework
The benefits of using the Thesis Theme Framework to build better websites.

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Twitter Chatter: How To Install and Run WordPress on AWS EC2

May 17, 2011

How To Install and Run WordPress on AWS EC2
Fifteen minutes and you can be up and running. An illustrated step-by-step guide for installing and running WordPress on Amazon’s Cloud platform.

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Twitter Chatter: HTML Sitemap for WordPress

April 19, 2011
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HTML Sitemap for WordPress
An html sitemap can be useful for SEO. This copy and paste code can help you create a html sitemap for use with wordpress.

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Twitter Chatter: Turn your commenters into subscribers!

April 6, 2011
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Turn your commenters into subscribers!
By giving your blog commenters an easy check box that allows them to subscribe to your newsletter as they leave their comments you can quickly grow your subscriber list.  Warning for non-techies:  Adding the code to your blog takes some programming knowledge.

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Twitter Chatter: paths and URLs in WordPress

January 27, 2011

Quick WP Tip: paths and URLs in WordPress
Knowing the constants and functions of WordPress API is crucial to developing code that will work correctly for all WordPress users.
Warning for WordPress nerds only!

Quick WP Tip: paths and URLs in WordPress

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Twitter Chatter: Matt Mullenweg interview – Part II – The WordPress Podcast

November 10, 2010
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Matt Mullenweg interview – Part II – The WordPress Podcast
The smile, the face, the man behind WordPress.  In part I of this series, Matt Mullenweg gave us a lot of information about WordPress.
In this second part of the series he talks about VaultPress; Automattic’s new backup system. Matt explains the features and pricing–then he discusses [...]

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2.0 to go (web series): WordPress from start to finish

August 2, 2010
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Let’s face it, the best part of take out is that you don’t have to do the cooking.
Come spend the day in our local Tech Kitchen as we whip up some fantastic web pages with WordPress. We call it “Make it and Take It,” but you can call it a mini miracle, you decide !
I’m [...]

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WordPress 3.0 Demystified – Part 5

July 11, 2010
Polls as widgets

Part V: Give ‘em what they asked for
Last, but certainly not least, is content. Today you’ll add pages, forms, and the actual MEAT (or beans, for vegetarians) to your site.
Be judicious!! Think of the things that make you leave a website and work to avoid them. For instance, I jump ship pretty quickly if there’s [...]

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WordPress 3.0 Demystified – Part 4A

July 10, 2010
WordPress Configuration

Part IV: Go (Con)figure
This was originally part of yesterday’s post, however with the bonus there was already too much information.
Don’t panic. Configure is just a fancy computer word for “settings.”  What’s your site title? The tag line? Displays? WordPress is so kind, that it will walk you through each of these questions with the greatest [...]

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WordPress 3.0 Demystified – Part 4

July 9, 2010
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Part IV: Plug it in, plug it in
So far in part one we installed configured the WordPress database on the server and uploaded the software. In part two we learned about WordPress Themes and installed Thesis and finally in part three we customized the Thesis theme and added a widget to the sidebar.
Today we will [...]

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