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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I recently finished a small web site project for a local Karate studio. I did all the development work using a “staged” version of their site on my local machine. The customer provided content that translated into 9 individual pages for the site. When the design was complete, I gave the customer a quick demo [...]

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I set my kids up with their own blog for the summer to help encourage them to keep their writing skills sharp (since all previous motivational attempts failed). For their new site I selected the WordPress theme Pride created by Small Potato and available for download at WpDesigner.com.
I thought the theme was fantastic! My kids, [...]

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I’ve been tweaking the WordPress theme used over at Brothers In Blog (my second blog I coauthor with my brother). Last week I added category and archive totals to the sidebar. One of the things I noticed, which wasn’t there all along, is that my “categories” subtitle appeared twice. If your selected WordPress theme originally [...]

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Note: Despite last week’s vote regarding the value of the “by-month-archive’ section, I decided to go ahead and publish the following post (mostly because it was already written). Complete vote results and analysis will appear on TechTraction this Wednesday 7/4/07. Thanks for stopping by.
On Monday (6/25/07) I posted a short article describing how to add [...]

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Most WordPress themes include a category list in the sidebar (take a look at the first sidebar on this site and you’ll quickly know what I mean). The category summary allows a visitor to quickly see all of the subjects you have blogged about on your site. If any topic catches their eye, [...]

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I know that a Joomla is “off-topic” for TechTraction, however, if you read my previous post about creating a WordPress staging/development server and installed a WampServer, then why limit yourself to just using that WampServer for WordPress? Tap into the full potential of that installation and use it to test drive another content management [...]

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Last week I posted a two part article about creating a WordPress staging/development server using Wamp (Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). I broke the topic into two posts:

Installing WampServer on your computer
Installing WordPress on your Wamp installation and setting up one or more virtual hosts

If you’ve set up a similar staging/development environment, here’s a tip [...]

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If you read the first article in this two part post, and followed the instructions, you now have a running WampServer (Windows, Apache, PHP, and MySQL). Aside from the operating system itself, these other components are what make a WordPress web site possible. Apache provides the HTTP server, PHP helps create dynamic web [...]

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I’ve barely begun blogging and I’ve already violated a major blogging no-no: failing to post on a consistent basis. Despite my recent “blogging violation” I’m brushing it off and getting back to work. Therefore, to get back on track, I’ve decided to explain how to set up a WordPress staging or development site. [...]

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