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Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
We recently completed version 1 of our "How to Set up A Website without breaking the bank" ebook!
It gives you everything you need to:
Get a domain
Change the DNS
Get Hosting (at a discount)
Setup hosting
Setup and Configure WordPress
Including the cost of the book, you can get your domain and hosting and set ...
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
We recently got this question from a reader Carol:
Is hosting a domain the same thing as maintaining it once it is set up?
Matt responded with an analogy that describes the difference between a domain, hosting, and maintaining a website.
That is a really good question.
A domain is like an address to ...
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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Since our post on your about us page, we have had some questions about how to submit your site to aboutus.org.
First, go to http://aboutus.org and put your website's URL (your domain name) into the search field.
Once your site is entered, you will be taken to your site's page. The URL ...
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
Recently a long time friend contacted me because he saw a new user on his site that he did not set up.
The user's first name looked like the below two screenshots:
Upon viewing the page source, I saw that WordPress has a safety measure in place to html escape all this ...
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
This is an addendum to our WordPress Upgrade Woes article that was previously published.
During upgrade of one of our blogs, we ran into the "Call to a member function add_rewrite_tag()" error and it raised some alarm, but we quickly found a support forum thread on the subject.
It turns out that ...
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
I posed a question to Twitter:
Do you use WordPress? I am looking for questions to answer about WordPress. Bring it on.
The responses:
From @Sarah_Gore:
@mbernier good gravy. Your timing is impeccable. How do I add the thing that let's people sign up for email notices of new blog?
@sarah_gore This ...
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
We realized recently that there is a gap in the knowledge about how to get your WordPress website set up and running. The posts you will see on the site over the next couple of weeks will teach our visitors how to build their own site, configure ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
There is a lot of talk going around about the new Beta 1 version of WordPress 2.6.
You can see articles here:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wordpress_26_beta_1_is_now_ava.php
http://mdawaffe.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/post-revisions-in-wordpress-26/
And you can download the beta here: http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.6-beta1.zip
I would NOT suggest that you download this and upgrade your LIVE blog/website with this version. This is simply due to the ...
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