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  • Adding Pages to Your RSS Feed in WordPress

    We all like to be kept up-to-date on our favorite WordPress sites. The best way to do so is to subscribe to the RSS feed. Unless you’re using a plugin such as Feedsmith which redirects all your feeds to your Feedburner feed, you have a lot of options to subscribe to. You have the general…

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  • Everything You Wanted To Know About Custom Post Types

    By now you should be aware that WordPress 3.0 comes shipped with Custom Post Types. It’s a feature that may not be easy to grasp at first, but it holds almost infinite power over what you can do with WordPress. Custom Post Types are not set in stone as to what they exactly are. It’s…

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  • BuddyPress, Your Next Step?

    A while back BuddyPress 1.2 was released and with it came a bunch of new features to transform your WordPress installation into a full fledged community. You may be at the point where adding a social layer to your site is the logical next step to build a better blog. BuddyPress allows you to build…

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  • How To: Create More Flexible Widgets

    This is not going to be one of those posts about how to widgetize your sidebar because frankly, if by now you still are not using a theme with widgetized aeras you need start looking for one. This post is about how to use those widget area’s in the smartest way possible. When I say…

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  • I Love a Design Sketchbook

    Every single design I have ever started began with a piece of paper and some pencils. Eventually, that design would or would not find it’s way to an actual live WordPress theme, but using those pencils really help me in the creative process. Heck, quite a few times drawing out those various elements of the…

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  • In Need for Absolute Privacy for WordPress?

    You would think that the owner of every single WordPress site out there would want as many visitors as possible, but you’d be wrong. There are plenty of reasons why you would want to keep a blog as private as possible. Perhaps you’re using it as an project site in conjunction with the awesome P2…

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  • Everything You Need to Know About WordPress Security

    Keeping your WordPress installation secure is usually not something a lot of people spend a great deal of time on. However, I believe WordPress security, tightening up the place should be your first priority every single time you install WordPress. No exceptions. With the recent Pharma hack, more info about it plus a solution on…

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  • Menu Management for WordPress

    The soon to be released WordPress 3.0 comes with a new menu management, but your theme has to have this capability built in. But what if you’d rather not edit your theme files or simply don’t want to wait for WordPress 3.0? Luckily there are a few plugins out there that will enable you to…

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