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From One to Two and Back to One

Nov. 6, 2009

Columns, I refer.

Why must your blog be designed with two or three columns? Everyone’s blog looks like that! I keep experimenting with a single-column look and I keep nixing and changing it. I think it’s time to keep the single view, don’t you?
I awoke this morning to a 2-column design at AriWriter. I will sleep [...]

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1 Essential Plugin for Your Wordpress Blog

Oct. 17, 2009

Take a look at the following comment sections of Wordpress blogs:

Do you see what’s missing?
Here are another four examples:

Do you see what these four comment sections contain that the first four lack? The answer lies in an optional check box a person writing a comment can tick to receive follow-up comments by email.
If I have [...]

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Your Go-To Guide of Wordpress Plugins

Oct. 10, 2009

As a follow-up to my prior list of 22 Wordpress plugins I use today, I tip my hat to Andrew Rondeau for his excellent compendium of 111 Wordpress plugins assembled across the web.
Perusing through Andrew’s summary, I quickly realized he included more generic lists and less categorical ones.
With this in mind, and considering the master [...]

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Why I Use 22 Wordpress Plugins Today

Sep. 18, 2009

Every couple of months, I update you with a list of plugins I use on my self-hosted Wordpress blog. (I profiled 15 plugins in December 2008 and 23 plugins in March 2009.) Looking back six months, many plugins remain the same but I deactivated some and installed some more.

Akismet protects my blog from spam. Pre-installed [...]

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Enhance Your Wordpress Blog with 23 Plugins

Mar. 7, 2009

Photo credit: ranopamas
Responding to numerous questions about how such and such is enabled on my blog, I’ve whipped together a list of 23 plugins currently installed at AriWriter.
Note: Most of these only work with self-hosted Wordpress.org blogs. Here’s a great explanation about the difference between WP.com and WP.org. If you want to take the next [...]

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How to Read a Wordpress Blog, Add a Comment, and Gain Twitter Followers with WP-Twitip-ID

Dec. 23, 2008

The subject says it all.
Among my list of 15 awesome Wordpress plugins is Extra Comments Fields, a neat tool developed by Nate Weiner which allows blog publishers to insert optional fields for readers like you to add a comment and include links to your Digg, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, or other social network profiles.
Last month, developer Sean [...]

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Why I Love These 15 Wordpress Plugins

Dec. 20, 2008

If you’ve never heard of the term, plugin, think of it as a tool that adds functionality to your blog. For instance, the ability to add your Twitter handle in the comment section below is enabled by one plugin; my web forms are from a second plugin; and the cloud of topics to the right [...]

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