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Whoa—Time to Cut Back on the Plugins!

By ⋅ August 11, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

The other day I was noticing that my blog was running ridiculously slow when I was in the admin panel.  This was with having Google Gears turned on. There are three things that go toward the speed of your blog—or any computer for that matter.  The number of processors, the amount of memory, and the [...]

5 Plugins Every WordPress Install Should Have

By ⋅ May 22, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Every single time I set up a WordPress blog (and I’ve set up quite a few now) there are a few plugins that I find myself wanting or needing every single time.  It’s to the point that if I’m helping someone out on their blog and I go look at their plugins, I immediately wonder [...]

Randomize and Update

By ⋅ April 30, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

So, we talked last post about Randomizing ads– so that you never see the same ad when click on the site.  We also discussed filtering by category, so the ad is a little bit closer to the topic of the post. This has a lot of benefits, but it also means a little bit of [...]

Ad Rotation and Groups

By ⋅ April 30, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

When you’re running a blog that covers different topics, you’re rarely going to want to show the same ad every time the page is refreshed– unless it’s something you figure that you’re really good at selling.  Why?  Because every person is different and comes to your blog looking for something different. To the person that [...]

Yahoo Shortcuts

By ⋅ January 23, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

If you’re like me then you like to spruce up your posts with images, links and any tool that you can find that will help you do this is– and do it easily– is something that you’d want to try out. Well, one of the great things about WordPress is that there are always people [...]

Upgrade Your Blog

By ⋅ January 9, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Recently I’ve gone through the process of upgrading and standardizing all the different blogs that I run. I’ve also helped a few others on templates, and even worked at tweaking a WordPress plugin or two. So, this new series will take you through a few steps that I do to run my blogs– from plugins, [...]

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