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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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Totally Addicted to Skype

I’ve never been one for instant messengers and avoided them until a few months ago when I was tempted with a new phone and that was it, love at first skype! Not a great one for talking on the phone, [...]

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Shutter Reloaded for images in WordPress

Recently I’ve come across a few blogs that use a lot of photos in their posts and to be honest, not too well, so I decided to have a dig around for a cool image viewer for WordPress and Shutter [...]

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Tweeting your blog posts

A friend of mine asked about the TweetMeme button used by a number of active WordPress bloggers.  And indeed I’ve been meaning to install this one myself, so a great reminder – thanks Su. There are ever more Twitter plugins [...]

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Upgrading your WordPress – disable your plugins first!

Today I merrily set about the latest upgrade to WordPress – just from 2.8.1 to 2.8.2 – and learned a valuable lesson or two (in good time for the next upgrade to 2.8.3 which was hot on its heels!) Part [...]

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