Since being on vacation a little over a week, I’ve been spending some of my free time working on my new design for TechTraction. I’m a little obsessed with making that all important “first impression.” Therefore, I’ve been tweaking nearly every little aspect of the site design; however, I haven’t forgotten one of the [...]

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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 [...]

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After my Friday Find of 07/06/07 I was compelled to immediately upgrade to the latest release of WordPress and change all of my passwords for my account at Dreamhost. If you’re about to upgrade to the latest release of WordPress, here is a quick pre-upgrade check list you should complete before pressing the “go” button.
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I came across an informative post the other day at Problogger that posed the question, “What do you know now about blogging that you wish you knew when you started?” The titled says it all about the post that followed, but the real meat of the post exists in the comments section where readers respond [...]

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One of the primary reasons I like WordPress so much is the almost endless supply of free plug-ins and themes. These free items can add great value to a blog and instantly give a novice blogger an extremely professional look with a simple download. While those of us that use these free items reap [...]

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I absolutely love the Subscribe to Comments plug-in from Mark Jaquith. The plug-in allows visitors leaving comments to subscribe to all future comments for a particular post, which is kind of like a post specific RSS feed.
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The votes are in and the winner, taking 75% of the votes, is “the standard archive-by-month sidebar section adds NO value to a blog.”

A standard part of most WordPress themes, the by-month-archive sidebar provides a link which allow a visitor to quickly see a chronological listing of all the posts for a given month. Here’s [...]

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On Monday (06/25/07) I posted simple instructions outlining the necessary steps for adding category totals to you sidebar. Graphic artist David Airey (of davidairey.co.uk) stopped by and commented that he was thinking about doing just what I described. I thanked him and then told him to stop back later in the week as I was [...]

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Every WordPress blog uses at least one plugin to extend or enhance its functionality. TechTraction is no exception. Since I just finished a series of posts journaling the redesign of this site, I thought I should add one more relevant post and list all of the plugins I use on my site — [...]

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If you’re a regular reader of TechTraction, then you know I’ve spent the last few weeks doing a basic site redesign. While I do plan to continue tweaking various parts of the site, and hope to one day make more significant changes (e.g. color scheme, fonts, overall width), I’m happy to say that for [...]

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