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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.
I have written about a lot this year. From great wallpaper to superb marketing tips, this blog has served as a catch all for my interests that do not fit into either of my other websites. I hope you have enjoyed the Mitchelaneous journey I have taken you on throughout 2010 and I figured there is no better way to look back at the best than to give you the top 10 most popular posts I’ve written in the past year.
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.
How can you remove the extra RSS feeds that are displayed in your WordPress blog, in the address bar of most modern browsers? On my website, I only want to show my one RSS feed for people to subscribe to. I don’t want to display the comment feed or the separate feed for a category. For me, showing too many RSS feeds is confusing to a novice user. So here is how you can turn off the extra feeds (such as category feeds) in WordPress.
Working with WordPress is almost like learning a new language. Not only do you need to learn some of the basic fundamentals of PHP, but you also need to learn what WordPress tags go where, and what they do. Since nobody has the time to do that these days, I thought it would be about time to break out my WordPress cheat sheet collection.
Now most of the time, free applications from Microsoft aren’t worth trying out – but I have found one that really is. Windows Live Writer has to be one of my favorite programs to use to write up new blog posts across my own network of websites. It is really simple to use, and it gets the job done.
Want a great looking new theme for your WordPress powered website? Check out these themes I found during my last website redesign efforts. Over the past month I have spent my fair share of time looking for themes that do not suck – and I think I have found a number of great looking free themes to share with you. So bookmark this list, share it with friends and grab a few themes for your next website redesigns.
The forum script phpBB might be the king of kings when it comes to free forum scripts. However, the script itself if often susceptible to security problems and hacks due to its success. So, with that said you might be looking for an alternative to this message board suite.
There is nothing wrong with have a few more scripts to choose from, and there are many great forums scripts in the sea. Here are some of the best phpBB alternatives out there.
Need a handy guide to WordPress? Try out some of these great links!
Let me know which ones are your favorites, and what type of WordPress lists, tutorials or more you would like to see in the future!
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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.
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