Start Your Own Blogging Community

Posted by Dr.D | May 23, 2009 .

Found this at BlogPerfume. Here is a site- Blogs.mu -that gives you the opportunity to host your own blogging community. You can start out for free but for less that $1 per blog you can use your own domain and eliminate the advertising or even add your own.
I have looked at a number [...]

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Book Review: "Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read"

Posted by Dr.D | March 6, 2009 .

By Scott McNulty (Berkeley,Calif: Peachpit Press, 2009, 263 pages)
This is a great book for those starting out with WordPress. McNulty goes into detail on every facet of properly setting up a new WordPress blog. It has lots of illustrations to demonstrate every step. A real find for any beginner–wish this book was around 3 [...]

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New WordPress Plugin: PicApp for Pictures

Posted by Dr.D | January 14, 2009 .

Here is a new WP Plugin for adding pictures and images to your blog. PicApp has 1,000’s of pictures available in their library for immediate use. From their website:
“The images are fully licensed, come from the most prestigious content partners such as Getty Images, Splash News, Corbis and alike, these are full size images [...]

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10 Ways to make Your WordPress Blog Faster

Posted by Dr.D | November 20, 2008 .

Image via CrunchBase
Vladimir Prelovac has posted a guide with 10 useful tips and tutorials on how to speed up your WordPress site. Here is a summary of the tips:
1. Check the Connection
2. Check your (Vista) System
3. Check the Plugins
4. Check your Theme
5. Optimize Database Tables
6. Turn off Post Revisions
7. Implement Caching
8. [...]

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Plugin: WP Easy Uploader

Posted by Dr.D | November 12, 2008 .

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A couple of weeks ago I put the WP Easy Uploader plugin on my WordPress blogs. What a great time saver this one is! Now I can upload the entire program for a plugin or new theme into my WordPress files with only a couple of clicks.
In order to try out a plugin [...]

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WordPress Sermons Plugin

Posted by Dr.D | August 28, 2008 .

Here is a new plugin for Wordpress found on Ephesians 4:14 –looks like it might be a useful tool for Pastors and Churches using Wordpress who would like to catalog and make their sermons available–according to the plugin website:
The Sermon Browser Wordpress Plugin allows churches to simply upload sermons to their Wordpress website, where [...]

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Using WordPress to Create Church Websites

Posted by Dr.D | August 3, 2008 .

Cory Miller at Church Communications Pro has an entire series on how to adapt and use WordPress to create and run a church website. Another comprehensive and valuable tutorial from CCP for the Christian community.
Also, Churchblogger has a good related post on the same subject- "Creating wordpress church websites".
Using WordPress could be a possible [...]

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WordPress Video Tutorials <<Free>>

Posted by Dr.D | July 6, 2008 .

I found this link @ Church Communications Pro. They have provided a number of free video tutorials for those starting out and/or using the WordPress blogging platform. They offer a ton of valuable and essential information:
1. The Basics in Using WordPress
2. How to install WordPress
3. How to customize a theme
4. 7 Steps to [...]

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