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Customizing the AddThis WordPress Plugin

February 28, 2011 | 0 Comments

AddThis My favorite WordPress plugin for bookmarking/sharing is AddThis. It looks good and provides comprehensive statistics. But unlike Shareaholic’s SexyBookmarks plugin, which allows you to display any number of the available services (bookmarking or sharing sites, e.g. Digg), AddThis plugin only displays 4. So I modified it by adding a few lines of code to make it display more services and thought others might want to do the same.

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10 Reasons Why Small Business Websites Should Be Built with WordPress

October 11, 2010 | 8 Comments

I’ll tell you the same thing I tell every one of my new web marketing clients, “WordPress is incredible – and you should be using it for your website.” It can save you both time and money, while making it far easier to build a beautiful and limitless website that you can manage and control yourself.

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Creating a New Page Template for a WordPress Theme

July 8, 2010 | 2 Comments

Page templates in a WordPress theme define how the page using it is displayed. Nowadays most themes provide more than one page template. As an example the Twenty Ten theme that comes with WordPress 3.0 has Page Template and One Column, no Sidebar Page Template. They are listed in the Page Attributes box in the Template drop-down list when you create or edit a page.

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Displaying the Number of Visits in a WordPress Blog Post

April 22, 2010 | 9 Comments

I thought it would be a good idea to show how many visits a blog post had since it was published. One of the web tracking tools I use is WordPress.com Stats, and it’s the easiest to get the page view count from. So after some googling I found the best way to do so is to use the WordPress.com Stats Helper plugin and two lines of PHP code to display the number.

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Why We Love WordPress

December 17, 2009 | 0 Comments

When looking for information on a new topic, where do you go first? Most people would answer “the Internet.” Now that we find ourselves in this wonderful information age, it’s remarkably easy to find everything from advice on buying a dog to finding a lawyer or looking up the time of the church picnic.

What does this mean for the small business owner? It means that a web presence is absolutely vital in growing your business.

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How To Recover Lost WordPress Password

December 8, 2009 | 1 Comments

After seeing the article title you are maybe asking yourself: Why somebody writes something like that? Everything what I need to recover my WordPress password is to click one link and let the script to send new password to my email. If you are thinking in this way I am pretty sure you are one of the lucky webmasters who never needed to solve this issue.

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How to Create a Page For Your Tags in WordPress

November 26, 2009 | 0 Comments

To display all the tags in a blog in page a plugin that runs PHP code in pages should be installed. I prefer Exec-PHP (http://bluesome.net/post/2005/08/18/50/) because its easy to use (you just type the PHP code inclosed in <?PHP ?>), and has very good documentation. After installing the plugin create a new page and while in HTML view paste the code below.

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