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Give your Blog Posts the Perfect Finishing Touch

June 30, 2010

in WordPress

So you have written a post for your WordPress blog. Congratulations! Now all you need to do is have more viewers read your post. How do you do that? Well, this article is all about giving your WordPress blog posts the perfect finishing touches so that more viewers can read your posts. A lot of traffic will then go to your blog site, and you will become an authority of your niche in the online community.

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How to comment effectively on other blogs

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Commenting on other blogs is one of the main privileges of social media. In old media, such as television or newspapers, it is basically a one way communication channel between the provider and the viewers, and interaction is very limited. The best we can do with television is cast out our votes through texting or [...]

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Thesis Breacrumb navigation

April 20, 2010 Thesis Theme

In the Thesis Open Hook Plugin, search for “Before Header” (or whereever you want to add the breadcrumb navigation). Make you you have the plugin Breadcrumb NavXT installed and activated. Then add the code to the Thesis hook and activate “Execute PHP on this hook”.
<div>
<strong>
<?php
if(function_exists(‘bcn_display’))
{
bcn_display();
}
?>
</strong>
</div>
<br>
You might want to style this differently…

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Top 8 Social Media Plugins

March 31, 2010 Plugins

WordPress bloggers are finding social media the easiest and more influential way to reach more readers. There are plenty of Social Media plugins that can optimize your blog and increase its visibility on social media platforms. Here’s a list of top 8 must-have Social Media Plugins:

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Add Tweetmeme button

March 29, 2010 Thesis Theme

I wanted to add the tweetmeme button to thesis, but

only on home and posts
not on pages
use small button in teaser,

so here we go:
In Thesis Open Hook add
Before Headline

<?php if (!( is_page() )) { ?>
<div class=”tweetmeme_button” style="float: right; margin: 5px 0 15px 15px;">
      <script type="text/javascript">
        tweetmeme_url = '<?php the_permalink(); ?>';
      </script>
      <script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script>
    </div>
  
<?php } else { ?>

<?php } [...]

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Difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org

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WordPress is a great piece of software that is not only used for blogging, but also for making normal websites. In this video I explain the difference between hosting your blog or website on wordpress.com or on your own server (= called wordpress.org, because you download the software from that website).

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Fix checkbox width in Thesis Theme

March 18, 2010 Thesis Theme

In life pretty much everything si simple if you know how to do it. The same applies to the checkboxes in Thesis Theme.

This looks broken to me. There is a wide space around the checkbox, which does not make sense to me. But…I am not a CSS person, so I did not get that fixed. [...]

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Show no Teasers on Thesis Home Page

March 18, 2010 Thesis Theme

Sometimes you do not want to show any teasers inyour specific Thesis Theme. But how to turn them of and show – let say only 3 fully featured posts on the homep page of your blog? Well that is actually pretty easy. The first thing you need to do is to go into Thesis Theme [...]

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SEO Plugins – Top 10

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SEO plugins contribute a lot in improving the search engine ranking and visibility of a site. Here’s a list of the 10 best SEO plugins that will help your blog get good position in SERP:

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