Since I started building a few custom WordPress themes, I’ve been making frequent trips to the documentation section of the WordPress site. And even though I have bookmarked these pages for quick reference, I wish there was a condensed version of these page I could print and tape to my office wall. Well, thanks to [...]

Filed under: Friday Finds

As you can clearly see TechTraction does not shy away from advertising. Since I haven’t had a lot of luck with Google Adsense (probably because of my poor approach), I decided to go with banner ads that offer products and services I think might interest my readers. I signed up for Commission Junction and Share-a-Sale [...]

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Several weeks back I wrote a short series of articles outlining how to use a Wamp (Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) Server installation to create a WordPress staging and development environment. In that series I explained how to install a Wamp Server, how to install WordPress on that server, and then how to take that [...]

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In my opinion, the comment section beneath a post is where the interactive discussion between reader and author takes place. Sometimes the discussion takes place just between the readers, and sometimes the discussion inspires subsequent discussions at other blogs. Typically those types of “launch points” appear in the discussion thread in the form of a [...]

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Most people run blogs with a single author; however, in the case of my other blog (Brothers In Blog) and my kid’s site, there is more than one author creating content. I’ve been thinking about adding some type of personalization to the top or bottom of an article at these sites, but just haven’t gotten [...]

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