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What, Why, How – WordPress Plugins

So – what are “plugins”? Basically, they add functionality to your WordPress blog or website. There are thousands of them available, all created by elves who love to share their geek creations with the world. (OK – so they’re not [...]

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WordPress Widgets – What, Why, How

When I first started using WordPress I really wished I had asked the question ‘umm, what’s a widget?’, plugins made sense to me (although at the time I hadn’t yet installed or used one) as the name gave me a [...]

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Handy WordPress Dashboard Notepad

Not content with cracking her whip via email, skype and twitter the blogmistress installed Dashboard Notepad too! It’s really handy actually, just a place to jot down to-do lists, ideas on future posts and to be able to leave a [...]

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I am unanimous in this…

It’s always good to ask what your readers and visitors think so why not have a poll?  If I happen across a website with one I tend to vote, it kind of feels good to give your opinion very quickly [...]

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How to create a slick, sortable and searchable table in WordPress

Here’s a question we received on our blogmistress facebook page and I hope the solution I found helps: I want to list details of fitness classes on a page. Rather than have static data on a page, it would be [...]

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