How to Create a Clean and Elegant Blog Layout

In this featured tutorial by graphic designer Mohammad Jeprie, you’ll be able to learn how to create a clean and elegant layout for a blog site. To do this, you will need Photoshop preferably CS6 as Mohammad used this version in coming up with this cool design. The CS6 version has a lot of improved [...]

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Easy Customizations in WordPress Admin

WordPress has a lot of ways to customize its functionality in the admin area, most of which are a little complicated for the average user. Here’s a helpful read from WordPress Channel Aurelien Denis, who shares easy customization tips to make your WordPress site act like a white label CMS. Customizing your site helps build [...]

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Automatically Hide Email Addresses From Spambots

Spambots are one of the most annoying things you have to deal with when running a website or blog. They scan your site for email addresses just so it can be used for sending out spam. Well, thanks to a certain Stian Jacobsen, he was nice enough to share this nifty snippet to help you [...]

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SEO Tips for 2012

Search Engine Optimization or SEO is the art of reaching the top page of Google’s listings. By using the right SEO, your site can easily be found by visitors, getting you more traffic and probably more revenue. Here are simple SEO tips for 2012 that you might find helpful: Understand what keywords work for you [...]

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New WordPress Version 3.2 For iOS Now Has Featured Image Support

If you use an iOS device for on-the-go blogging then you might be delighted to hear this news. WordPress has just released a major update to its iOS app, which now includes one of the most user-requested features: support for featured images. Now you can upload a ‘Featured Image’ to your blog posts from directly [...]

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Time Ago – Display How Long Something Has Been Posted Using PHP

Usually, websites and blogs display the date (month-day-year) of published posts, and then there are some that show you how long it has been since an entry was published by displaying something like “Posted 1 week ago”, “2 months ago”, “3 days ago”, etc. Today’s featured PHP snippet will allow you to do the latter. [...]

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Should You Quit Your Day Job for a Life of Blogging? [Guest Post]

Sure, working from home is the ultimate goal for many people. The idea of sleeping in until noon and never leaving the comfort of your pajamas but still getting paid is rather appealing, right? However, you’re not going to get paid for wearing pajamas. You’re going to get paid for doing some form of work [...]

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Common Reasons Why Your WordPress Site is Slow

Ever wonder why your WordPress site gets slow? There are several factors that contribute to this. The 3 most common reasons that guys at Tips and Tricks HQ have pointed out are as follows: Poorly coded plugins. Since WordPress is open source, there are too many available plugins to choose from. Though a lot of [...]

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