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Embedding a YouTube Video into WordPress Blog Posts

September 24, 2010

Here is a short video tutorial I created on embedding YouTube videos into your WordPress blog posts. For the this tutorial I used my favorite video plugin… Vipers Video Quicktag. Please note.. the playback is a bit on the loud side so check your volume settings.

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Putting WordPress Into Maintenance Mode

July 29, 2010

WordPress has maintenance mode built into its core that is only accessible during the upgrade function of WordPress but it’s not something that you can just turn on and off. Here are three ways to put your WordPress CMS into Maintenance Mode, the first 2 methods are manual and the last one is a plugin.

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How I Upgrade WordPress

July 14, 2010

There are several ways to upgrade WordPress; via the command line, plugins, the update tool built into WordPress or by FTP. I prefer FTP. Here is everything I do during a Next Generation upgrade of WordPress. This is just a quick list of my process and it would probably make more sense to consult the [...]

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Introduction to WordPress Themes

July 7, 2010

WordPress Themes come in several varieties, Free WordPress Themes, Premium WordPress Themes, WordPress Theme Frameworks and Custom WordPress Themes. Free and Premium Themes In the beginning most people go straight to the Free WordPress Theme Repository where one can find over a 1000 free themes for WordPress. If you Google “free wordpress themes” you are likely [...]

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My Base Set of WordPress Plugins

July 1, 2010

The following list is what I would refer to as my BASE set of plugins that I upload when developing a WordPress CMS. Each one is linked to the file download location from the WordPress Plugin Repository.

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Making Progress

June 29, 2010

I finally got around to finishing 2 pages which I think are the corner stones or building blocks to working through the process of building a WordPress CMS. I’ve broken things down in two stages…

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Setting Up a Sub Domain in cPanel

June 20, 2010

This is a tutorial for setting up a u Sudomain within the cPanel web hosting interface. What this process does is automate the setup of the hosting directory on the sever and set the DNS parameters so that the internet knows where to find your content. 1. Login into cPanel

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Setting Up an Addon Domain in cPanel

June 19, 2010

This is a tutorial for setting up an Addon Domain with the cPanel web hosting interface. What this process doed is automate the setup of the website root directory on the sever and set the DNS parameters so that the internet knows where to find your content. Let’s get started… 1. Login into cPanel

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