WordPress 3.2: A First Look

WordPress

I've just downloaded a local copy of the brand spanking new WordPress 3.2beta1 - and let me be the first to say... it's gorgeous. Simplicity is the motto here, and the UI design team has done an outstanding job in streamlining a lot of the elements down.  I mean, take a look at this new interface: Everything looks... clean.  Lots of clean lines, clean…

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50 Days to a Better Blog–Day 9: Resurrecting Old Content

Tutorial

This post is the ninth of an ongoing series entitled “50 Days to a Better WordPress Blog”.  During this time, Mitch will be providing small snippits of code, plugins, and things you can do to make your blog more attractive, attain new readers, and keep old ones coming back time and time again. You can see the entire series here. [caption id="attachment_1424" align="alignright" width="300"…

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50 Days to a Better Blog–Day 7: A Sitemap

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This post is the seventh of an ongoing series entitled “50 Days to a Better WordPress Blog”.  During this time, Mitch will be providing small snippits of code, plugins, and things you can do to make your blog more attractive, attain new readers, and keep old ones coming back time and time again. You can see the entire series here. We’ve talked a lot…

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50 Days to a Better Blog–Day 5: Tags vs Categories (and more)

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This post is the fifth of an ongoing series entitled “50 Days to a Better WordPress Blog”.  During this time, Mitch will be providing small snippits of code, plugins, and things you can do to make your blog more attractive, attain new readers, and keep old ones coming back time and time again. You can see the entire series here. I get a lot…

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The GoDaddy Fiasco… And What You Can Do

Technology

If you have been following the Twitterverse today, no doubt you've seen the outrage by people who have seen the video of GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons shooting an elephant on camera (link here: http://mashable.com/2011/03/31/godaddy-ceo-elephant/). I'm not surprised, honestly, but I think GoDaddy has a lot of other problems besides their CEO euthanizing elephants - they overpopulated their servers, people continually have a problem with…

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50 Days to a Better WordPress Blog–Day 4: Caption Styles

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This post is the fourth of an ongoing series entitled “50 Days to a Better WordPress Blog”.  During this time, Mitch will be providing small snippits of code, plugins, and things you can do to make your blog more attractive, attain new readers, and keep old ones coming back time and time again. You can see the entire series here. If you’re like me…

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The “Dawp Show”

Announcements

My tutorial on Excluding Non-Standard Post Formats from the WordPress Post Count was mentioned in a podcast on March 6 and I just now stumbled upon the site.  Thanks to Josh for the mention, and I encourage you to check out the podcast if you're a WordPress lover - he has a lot of good stuff in there.

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