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What kind of monster are you? Using MonsterID comments in your wordpress blog

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I’ve enabled MonsterID comment image tags on my blog and discuss MonsterID, it’s use and my blog theme in this article. What is MonsterID MonsterID is a method of generating a unique monster image based upon a certain identifier, usually based on IP address, email address or something similar. It’s used to automatically create a […]

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WordPress 2.3 and Windows Live Writer Beta 3 bring new stuff to bloggers

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WordPress 2.3 was released on September 25th. This release of WordPress brought some great new features: Native tagging support (previously available through plug-ins) Plug-in update notifications. and some URL handling improvements Earlier in September Windows Live Writer, Beta 3, was also released. This latest build of WLW brings with it: Insert Video dialog (previously available

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One more wordpress gadget: snap.com previews

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I stumbled on this the other day looking over a web forum and thought it was a pretty neat ‘gadget’. I don’t know how useful it is but I’m all for cool. Using snap.com‘s Snap Preview feature and the wordpress plug-in snap preview anywhere. You’ll see a little icon: If you mouse over the link

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I speak 11 different languages! well my blog does not me..

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Do you know how to write blog articles in Japanese? I do! Do you know how to write blog articles in Chinese? I do! How about Arabic? Can you write in Arabic? I can! Okay so maybe I don’t really know how to write in all these different language. In fact, if you’ve read my

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updated the blog with new features and a new look

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The blog needed a little love and was time for a makeover. I wanted to change up the theme and add a few features. I found a great article on building link love through creating “ultimate lists of …..” and one of the examples was a smashingmagazine.com article on 83 wordpress themes you probably never

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WordPress Displaying Posts Multiple Times

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Using WordPress, I like to tag my posts in multiple categories to help with SEO exposure. However, after upgrading to 2.1 I found that my posts were showing up multiple times on the index, once for each category they were in. Turns out the reason for this was that I was using Category Visibility-RH. This

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Windows Live Writer Style Not Updated

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I recently installed the WordPress Category Visibility Plug-in which allows you to select categories you don’t want to show up in different places on your blog. I have delicious set to upload my delicious links every day to a special category and I removed it from the frontpage to keep it from junking up my

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A new theme & my fonts are jagged! HELP!

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I installed a new theme last night at home and was really happy with it. The new theme is called Lush and was originally created by: Marco van Hylckama Vlieg. (say that 5 times real fast, I dare you!) It was ported to WordPress by: Christoph Boecken. I like the theme because it’s got the

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A new theme & my fonts are jagged! HELP!

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Pimpin’ My WordPress Part 6 – Optimize those tables for faster page loads

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I’ve noticed my wordpress site has started to slow down a bit. I thought it was because of the heavy web template I’m using and the large amount of widgets and plugins I’ve added but I wanted to do everything possible to speed up the website (afterall the last thing a webhost wants is a

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