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Thematic


Being a WordPress fan, I really love the concept of Theme frameworks. For those who doesn’t know what it is, Theme frameworks are WordPress themes which contain lots of functions and styles. You can extend both in looks and functionality by adding a child theme.
For example, my other blog Cats Who Blog is using the Thesis theme framework that I extended using my own styles and functions.

Many commercial frameworks are availables, but Thematic is 100% free. A definitive must download if you’re into WordPress!
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A Complete Guide to Writing Guest Articles | Onextrapixel – Showcasing Web Treats Without Hitch

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Why Write Guest Articles?

Why would anyone want to write a guest article? Good question! Depending on who you talk to, there are many different reasons as to why you may want to consider writing a guest article. Perhaps it is for the publicity, or maybe it is for the good of the community and to lend a helping hand. Either way, there is no right or wrong answer. Let's take a look at a few reasons you may want to think about writing a guest article.

Contribute to the Community

One of the biggest reasons for wanting to participate in writing a guest article is to give back to the web design and development community. Think about everything you know about the subject today. Would you be where you are today if it was not for others that were willing to share what they know and have learned over time? Be thankful to the community and embrace the opportunity to give back.

My Monthly Report – January 2010 | The Smart Passive Income Blog

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Income Breakdown

GreenExamAcademy.com Product Sales:

  • Ebook Only: $1198.00
  • Audio Only: $15.00
  • Ebook + Audio Package: $1,468.35
  • Total: $2,689.35
    • Last Month: $2,979.10
    • Difference: -$289.75
  • eHow Earnings:
    • Total: $131.09
      • Last Month: $135.03
      • Difference: -$3.94
  • Affiliate Earnings:
    • Total: $4,997.75
      • Last Month: $4,957.78
      • Difference: +$39.97
  • iPhone Applications:
    • Total: $2,448.44
      • Last Month: $1,927.84
      • Difference: +$520.60
  • Gross Total in January: $10,266.63
    • Last Month: $9,999.75
    • Difference: +$266.88

A wonderful month, finally breaking the $10k mark once again. As far as how much time I spent in total to earn this amount, the iPhone apps and the eHow earnings took zero hours of my time and my product sales from GreenExamAcademy took about 1 hour of work (answering emails and responding to comment on the blog). It’s hard to determine the exact time I spent on my affiliate earnings because the time I spent promoting the Smart Passive Income Blog does have an effect on that total, although it’s not a direct correlation. I’ll just ballpark it and say 5 hours total.

How I Really Built a Blog with 6,500 Subscribers

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If you’re wondering why guest posting isn’t working for your site or why you can’t seem to get past 100 visitors per day, this is for you. If you are desperate to get your feed count past 1,000 subscribers then, this is also for you. If you’re looking for an A-list blogger to mention you work and put you on the radar, then guess what? This post is for you as well.

Let’s begin, shall we

13 Useful WordPress SQL Queries You Wish You Knew Earlier | Onextrapixel – Showcasing Web Treats Without Hitch

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Change Default "Admin" Username

Every default WordPress installation will create an account with a default Admin username. This is wide spread knowledge, everyone who uses WordPress knows this. However, this can be a security issue because a hacker can brutal force your WordPress admin panel. If you can change your default “Admin” username, you will give your WordPress admin panel additional security.

Solution:

1UPDATE wp_users SET user_login = 'Your New Username' WHERE user_login = 'Admin';

How to Use Tags on Your Blog or Website

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OK now that we’ve got the duplicate content issue resolved, why would anyone want to use tags in the first place? Can’t you achieve the same results with categories? Yes and no. Here’s an example of how I would use categories and tags: let’s say you have a celebrity website with categories like “baby bump,” “fashion,” “news,” “rumors,” etc. You are also going to have celebrities who are always in the news like Paris Hilton or Britney Spears. What I would do is create tags for each celebrity and, whenever I did a post about the celebrity, I’d tag it with his or her name.

Another example. You have a travel website with categories like “adventure travel,” “family travel,” “skiing,” “cruises,” and so on. I would set up tags for countries, states, or cities, like Bahamas, France, or Colorado. You could have a white water rafting page in the adventure travel category tagged with Colorado. You could have a Skiing in Vail post in the skiing category also tagged with Colorado. You can also have a family travel article about visiting the Museum of Science and nature and Botanic Gardens in Colorado.  Those three separate articles would be interconnected by using the Colorado tag.

Skelliewag.org » Posts » What Popular Bloggers Got Wrong – And How You Can Get it Right

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Exactly!

But in this post, I want to talk about how we can learn what not to do from the evolution of popular blogs. Because they’ve learned from their mistakes, we have the opportunity to learn without ever having to make the same mistake they did. I’ll show you how, here.

This set of stages shows how the business-side of many popular blogs has evolved over time:

Stage 1 - Begins with fixation on advertising income. Provides the initial excitement of earning some income for blogging. Then the blogger realizes it scales poorly: most blogs reach a natural ‘growth cap’ where traffic begins to plateau at its maximum level. Without more traffic, advertising income can’t keep growing. It’s also inconsistent - a Google pagerank reshuffle or the loss of a major advertiser throws the blogger’s earnings into disarray. Ad-blindness decreases the return you can provide to advertisers. So, the blogger moves on to stage two.

Stage 2 - Focus shifts to affiliate income. By the time Stage 2 is reached, the blogger has developed a large audience of fans who trust what he or she says. The blogger begins to experiment with affiliate recommendations and is surprised by the results. The blog’s earnings begin to increase again. This is a long stage for many blogs, as the negative effects can take some time to manifest themselves. Eventually, affiliate sales slowly drop, and some readers become disenchanted with the blogger. There is only so much selling they can take. Earnings are still good, but no longer growing. The blogger begins to wonder what would happen if they sold their own work, instead of someone else’s.

BuddyPress.org – WordPress Social Network Software → BuddyPress 1.2 Beta

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You don't need MU anymore!

Now alive and ready for testing is the beta version of BuddyPress 1.2.

This version will work with both WordPress 2.9.1 and WordPress MU 2.9.1 or higher. We especially need standard WordPress installation testers to put BuddyPress through its paces. Installation instructions can be found in the readme.txt file.

If you’d prefer to not download and install the beta version, you can always help with testing by registering on our testing community site. This always runs the bleeding edge version of BuddyPress.

You can find a list of known issues and a place to post bugs via the BuddyPress Trac installation.

Quick Tip: How to Create a Theme-Switcher in 200 Seconds | Nettuts+

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Have you ever seen sites that offer some kind of "color-switcher" within the header section? Want to know how easy it is to replicate? I'll show you in 200 seconds, using jQuery.

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Author: Jeffrey Way

Hi, I'm Jeff. I'm the editor of Nettuts+, and the Site Manager of both ThemeForest, and CodeCanyon. I spend too much time in front of the computer and find myself telling my fiance', "We'll go in 5 minutes!" far too often. I just can't go out to dinner while I'm still producing FireBug errors...drives me crazy. During my free time, I sporadically write articles for my own personal blog. If it will keep you in the good graces of the church, follow us on Twitter.

47 Lists of Bloggers to Watch in 2010 – Check them Out!

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Earlier this month we published a list of 30 bloggers to watch in 2010 that caused a lot of conversation and debate in the comments section of that post. Of course the list of bloggers were simply one persons opinion and fairly much focused around that persons interests – so a week later I invited readers to create their own ‘bloggers to watch’ lists and submit links to them in the comments of that post.

47 bloggers have created such lists so far. The great thing about the submissions is that while there are some themes there is also a lot of diversity in the lists submitted. There is everything from food bloggers to watch, to Mom bloggers to watch, to greeen bloggers to watch, to personal finance blogges to watch to diabetic bloggers to watch. While not every niche is represented it is a great celebration of the blogosphere.

As it’s been a couple of weeks since I called for posts I thought it might be time to combine all the lists of bloggers to watch into a list of posts.

I encourage you to surf through the list – find the posts you resonate with – link up to them, tweet them and add to them with your own comments and posts.

You are welcome to keep submitting your posts of bloggers to watch in your niche but I probably won’t compile the list again unless there are a lot submitted.

  1. Saving Money Bloggers to Watch
  2. Dance Blogs to Watch in 2010
  3. Top Business and Finance Magazines, Blogs and Journals
  4. Bloggers to Watch in 2010- Translation and Localization Industry
  5. My Women of the Web
  6. Faith Bloggers to Watch in 2010
  7. Sewers and Quilting Bloggers to Watch
  8. 11 Famous Food Photo Bloggers to Watch This Year
  9. Owen Greaves Bloggers to Watch
  10. 15 Simplicity/Minimalist Bloggers to Watch in 2010
  11. Six Win Bloggers to Watch for 2010
  12. 5 More Blogs to Follow in 2010
  13. Personal Finance Bloggers to Watch in 2010
  14. 5 Laser Sailing Bloggers to Watch in 2010
  15. 10 Food Bloggers to Watch in 2010
  16. Music Therapy Bloggers to Watch in 2010
  17. 10 Top Bloggers to Follow in the WordPress Community
  18. Blogs I’ll be Following in 2010
  19. Green Crafty Reading List
  20. Coupon and Deal Finding Bloggers to Watch
  21. My Fave Blogs
  22. Decluttering and Getting Organized Bloggers to Watch in 2010
  23. Moms Plus Bloggers to Watch in 2010
  24. Bloggers to Watch Out For
  25. A List of the Best Gardening Blogs
  26. 25 Blogger Active Roster
  27. Israel Bloggers to Watch in 2010
  28. A Few of My Favorite “Mom Blogs”
  29. My 2010 Blogs Watch
  30. 10 Blogs to Watch in 2010
  31. Top 50 Diabetic Bloggers of 2010
  32. Fun and Frugal Bloggers to Watch in 2010
  33. Green Bloggers to Watch in 2010
  34. People to Watch and Learn from in 2010
  35. 50 Personal Finance Bloggers to Watch in 2010
  36. 62 More Personal Development Blogs – Watch List 2010
  37. Blogs to Follow in 2010
  38. Social Media Bloggers to Watch
  39. Vegan Blogger Reading List
  40. The Merch Girl’s Blogs to Watch in 2010
  41. 5 Frugal Blogs With the Best Strategies to Save Money
  42. Watch List of Bloggers
  43. 11 Kingdom Bloggers to Watch in 2010
  44. Bloggers to Watch in 2010
  45. List of Green Women Bloggers
  46. 45 Cross-Cultural and International Bloggers to watch in 2010
  47. Four Personal Development Bloggers I’m Watching in 2010

Thanks to everyone who submitted lists!

PS: an interesting piece of feedback that I had from quite a few of the bloggers behind these links was that the posts were among the most popular posts they’ve ever written. These kinds of lists do have a habit of generating traffic and conversation!

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