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I have just started to play with WordPress 3.1 today. One of the biggest updates that people will either love, or love to hate is the new admin bar that is displayed across the top of your website when you are logged in. It gives you quick and easy access to some of the most popular administrator features of WordPress. What if you do not like it? There is a pretty simple way to disable it from showing up.
Within the last couple of weeks, I have taken a new writing job over at The Hosting News. This is a little ‘bit different beat that my usual posts I write because I am doing news coverage for them rather than opinion or tutorial based content.
Searching around through the WordPress plugins page – I was looking for an easy way to do split testing in this popular blogging platform. While it does not seem anybody has invented the perfect solution, I did run across several plugins that almost get the job done.
When people ask me for my favorite way to add all those sharing buttons on a website, my answer is almost always AddThis. They provide the most tools in the best looking way – and isn’t that what most webmasters are looking for these days? If you need a way to add and track your social sharing buttons – AddThis is definitely the best route to take.
As some of you may or may not have noticed, the theme I have been using across my network or projects is from WooThemes. Now, while I might have told you a few years back that a premium WordPress theme was a waste of money and time (because you could always just do it yourself) I have had a change or heart. My investment in purchasing a premium theme has been really fantastic.
When you are browsing through your Google Analytics profile, it is hard to visualize what exactly your website visitors are doing on your website. One tool that makes this visualization a lot easier is the In-Page Analytics option from within Google Analytics. From this page you can see even more specifics about how people are interacting with your website.
Looking for an easy way to turn your WordPress powered blog into a book? Anthologize is a plugin for WordPress that will turn WordPress into a platform for publishing electronic text. Anthologize gives you all the tools you need to publish your work in a new and exciting way.
Everybody has a mobile phone these days (except me) so you need to make sure your website preforms both on common desktop browsers and mobile phone browsers too. One way to insure that you have the best looking mobile website out there is to pick up the MobilePress add-on for WordPress.
The WordPress dashboard is a pretty useless tool if you ask me. I have found some great plugins for WordPress though that add a lot of functionality to it, to make the dashboard useful again. Check out these five great plugins for WordPress and then try to tell me your WordPress dashboard is not better for having added them into the mix.
When I first heard about a place that was selling plugins for WordPress, I was a little depressed by the idea. One of the great things about WordPress is there are so many great plugins and so many great plugin authors out there. You can really find a plugin to do just about anything. However, WPPlugins is not a replacement for how plugins are developed in WordPress. It just gives you a place to get higher quality plugins and also give something back to the plugin developers.
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Mitch Keeler is nothing more than your average Joe trying to leave his mark on the world though both his professional work and his online projects, articles, podcasts and more.
