Apr20
Your website is designed, the CMS works, content has been added and the client is happy. It’s time to take the website live. Or is it? When launching a website, you can often forget a number of things in your eagerness to make it live, so it’s useful to have a checklist to look through as you make your final touches and before you announce your website to the world.
This article reviews some important and necessary checks that web-sites should be checked against before the official launch — little details are often forgotten or ignored, but – if done in time – may sum up to an overall greater user experience and avoid unnecessary costs after the official site release.
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Mar22
Nearly every article I’ve ever read about Professional Blogging has mentioned these fairly obvious tips for writing better blog posts:
“Proof-read for typos and grammatical errors.” — “Create original content. ” — “Write short and lively posts.”
In this article, I’ll be discussing three writing tips you may have never thought about before.
I kept a blog while attending college. In it I almost daily recorded my trials and triumphs as a college student. The blog gained an impressive audience during the two years I authored it, and I believe it was due in part to the “rules” I made for myself when creating blog posts.
The “rules” that I kept secret throughout my first blog’s existence worked well for me, so I’m revealing them now as the following “tips” below:
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Mar15
WordPress 2.7 has finally hit, and the first thought on most people’s minds might be, “Will my favorite plugin work with it?” What follows is a list of over 20 great plugins that have already shown to work with 2.7 without any problems.
Some of these you are sure to have heard of, others may be new to you, and that shouldn’t stop you from trying them out. This is the perfect opportunity for you to explore new plugins that may improve your audience’s experience on your site.
What 2.7 compatible plugins are your favorite?
Add to Any – Social bookmarking, saving and subscription buttons optimized for WordPress, featuring Google Analytics integration, automatic updating and more.
Akismet – The most well known of the anti-spam plugins always comes packed with the latest version of WordPress, so it is always a given it is ready to go.
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Mar15
We recently compiled a list of 10 of the best WordPress 2.7 compatible themes, but it left some commenters asking, “Where are the free ones?”
We’ve gathered up 20 great free WordPress 2.7 compatible themes that are ready for you to download. These themes cover a wide variety of needs, layouts and customization, so this small sampling could provide you with hours of fun!
What are some of your favorite free WordPress themes?
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Mar15
WordPress 2.7 completely overhauled the admin area of your blog, so isn’t it time you treated yourself with an overhaul of the front end also?
Why not pick something radically different than the usual blog look? Not only can you have a blog that stands out, you can completely change the function of WordPress to be a photoblog or a CMS, the possibilities are pretty much limitless with this powerful program. Here are 10 of the best themes to choose from.
What are some of your favorite non-traditional themes?
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Mar13
This is the first article in our new three-part WordPress series. I want to share with you some hacks that i found to be very useful when i was working on the redesign of Noupe and during the design of my other site Devsnippets. Throughout this article, we’ll be focus on many WordPress Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing WordPress websites.
Using Custom Fields to Display Post Thumbnails
One of the most interesting features in WordPress is using Custom Fields, which can turn your WordPress blog into a fully customizable CMS website. I use custom fields to create image thumbnail for each post here on Noupe and on Devsnippets as well and display the thumbnails on the home page and the Archive page.
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Mar13
Post related Plugins
1) WP-Sticky WordPress Plug-in - Adds a sticky post feature to your WordPress’s blog where you can choose to “stick” certain posts at the top of your blog.
2) Daily Top 10 Posts- Tracks the number of pageviews per blog post for the current day and cumulatively with options to display sidebar widgets for both. You may also display sidebar widgets containing a list of the most popular posts for the day and most popular posts overall.
3) Popularity Contest- This Plug-in will help you see which of your posts are most popular. Views, comments, etc. are tracked and given configurable point values to determine popularity.
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Mar13
Minimalist WordPress Design Themes
Upstart Blogger Minim- Designed by Robert Ellis to be Minimalist, Fast: Lightweight, for speed, Ad-friendly: The columns are sized specifically to accept standard ad formats.
WPCandy v1 WordPress Theme- WPcandy created simple and clean WordPress theme with Scrollovers navigation, Widget-ready sidebar.
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