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Snappy article titles get read. One of the most popular attention grabbers used by bloggers is the “ten biggest reasons…” type of post which often achieve not only a high number of clicks but a large amount of discussion and sharing on social networks which is crucial for site marketing. It’s a shame many authors are let down by the very vanilla options available as standard when it comes to styling numbered lists and these posts often fail to stand out as a result. Here are some ideas to help you make your post more appealing. [Read the rest of this entry...]

With WordPress growing in popularity it is the best option for anyone who want to start a website. Even if you want to put up the website to display some info about a company, a service, a product, or you want to estabilish a blog or a website online, you first option is WordPress.

There are tons of plugins that can help you to achieve the look and feel that you want. If you are 100% sure that you will go with wordpress, any decision you make from that point should be related to wordpress. After you decided to start your own website and you brought the domain, next step is to get a hosting.  [Read the rest of this entry...]

When you start writing about something, you have to be well informed. Even if it is a subject that you know about, you need to see what happened recently about it. You don’t want to write any innacurate information on your post. If you write innacurate info, you either bring the reader into error, or they will notice instantly and they mark your content as “old” or “wrong”, and probably they won’t visit your blog again. [Read the rest of this entry...]

WordPress has change a lot lately. Maybe the most important changes were made back in 2010, when WordPress was updated to 3.0. The change of the prefix came with some crucial changes: custom menus, a new theme and merge with MU. Despite the regulat users that use wordpress only to power a very simple blogs, these changes are not that much, but for those who want to use it for more complex websites, this changes were crucial.

That was the point where wordpress turned from the best blogging platform to the best content management system. I’ve used wordpress to build complex websites before 3.0 a lot, but most of the work I was done was in the template files. After 3.0, non-coder users can do much more changes to the look and feel of the website only from the administration panel.

Now, let’s get back to 2011. In this year 3 wordpress major versions were released ( 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 ). They aimed to bring WordPress CMS to a higher standard where more things can be accomplished without much coding intervention. Let’s see which are the biggest changes of WordPress in 2010.  [Read the rest of this entry...]

The latest version of WordPress has been released. Unfortunately for normal users there are not many improvements, except a drag and drop image uploader and some UI improvements that is targeting the new users so they can understand faster what WordPress is up to.

There are many improvements on the code end side, with many new API features. A good thing is that the jquery libraries were updated so now developers can add more things to wordpress without having to reload a new version of the jquery.

This being said, go and download WordPress.

The web hosting service is the most important aspect of your online business. Every piece of your website relies on the webshosting: the content saved in the database, the contact informations, products. If the hosting is down, your website is down and your business is 0. A good web hosting can take the stress out of you so you won’t worry any moment if your website is down or if it loads very slow.

Here are 3 ways how web hosting serviec quality can negatively impact your online business: [Read the rest of this entry...]

This is a really useful plugin. It’s quite necessary if you have any kind of website. I myself have used it on several occasions and I can honestly say you really need it.

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The theme check plugin is an easy way to test your theme and make sure it’s up to specifications with the latest theme review standards. With it, you can run all the same automated testing tools on your theme that WordPress.org uses for theme submissions. That allows for a lot of power for your WordPress site.

The tests are run through a simple admin menu and all results are displayed at once. This is very handy for theme developers, or anybody looking to make sure that their theme supports the latest WordPress theme standards and practices.

You should really get this plugin for your website since it is really helpful.

NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a slideshow option. Before this plugin was created, the creator I studied all the existing image and gallery plugins for WordPress. Some of them are really good and well designed, but the gap the creator filled was a simple administration system at the back end which can also handle multiple galleries. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This is a guide to help you make the all-important back-ups for WordPress.

Your WordPress database contains every post, every comment and every link you have on your blog. If your database gets erased or corrupted, you stand to lose everything you have written. There are many reasons why this could happen and not all are things you can control. But what you can do is back up your data. After all, it is important. Right?

Below are instructions to back up your WordPress Site and your WordPress Database as well as resources for automatic WordPress backup. In addition, support is provided online at the WordPress Support Forum to help you through the process. [Read the rest of this entry...]