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Akismet WordPress Plugin
Spam is the bane of every bloggers existence. You will get spammed early and often in your blogging career. Akismet is a WordPress base install plugin (it comes with the initial installation) that will help you keep spam at bay. Click on the plugin tab and then find Akismet and activate it. Oh no! You [...]
Advanced Drop Down Menus for WordPress Admin
This is the first plugin I am going to install. You can download it here. It makes navigating around the inside of your WordPress sooooo much easier. It will save you a lot of clicking and waiting for pages to load too. This is a must have plugin as far as I am concerned. And [...]
WordPress Blogging Pro Widget Enabled Theme
I have made my choice. Of course, I can always change it later, but I like the theme and dig the name. You can download it from the Blogging Pro website. This is the widgetized version. It’s even got widgets in the footer! How about that! It also came with a plugin pack that included [...]
Finding a Suitable WordPress Theme
You need to find a theme that you can live with (but it’s not as important because it is so easy to change it if you don’t like it). Make sure it is compatible with your current version of WP, and compatible with the current state of your installed plugins. You may need to update [...]
First Things First
I am going to upgrade the site from WordPress 2.05 to WordPress 2.2 using Fantastico (a tool on the cpanel from my server) that makes for quick installations of WordPress and easy as pie upgrades! Here goes… What to do? 1) Log into your cpanel 2) Click on Fantatico 3) On the right, it will [...]
Clearcut Blogging is back!
I have come to the conclusion today that writing a blog chronicling my experience with WordPress would be useful to other Superabusers (code hacks) like myself. I have learned a lot in the past several months. I hope this blog is useful to others, and that a nice community can be formed to help with [...]
For Sale!
Because of some changes in my life, I can not maintain or even start this website. If someone would like to us it to blog, you can if you wanna try to make something cool. WordPress is easy to use and I can help you get started. If you like the name, you can buy [...]
