A blog about WordPress for WordPress bloggers.
by Ian Blackford
WordPress Shopping Cart
There are many many clever WordPress plugins, but did you know WP can be used as a dedicated ecommerce shopping cart? No? Well let me tell you it can! And to prove it, I’ll show you a working set up. All you need is a few plugins, some products to sell and an hour or [...]
Continue reading...7. July 2009
Twitter ReTweet and Tweets.. oh my!
Everyone is following the yellow brick road to see the Twitter of Oz lately. Twitter is the biggest thing to happen to the internet and social networking since Facebook and MySpace. Celebs are tweeting, marketers are twittering, normal people are turning into Tweeps and it’s all going off big time. It’s great, but what is it? [...]
Continue reading...22. June 2009
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Donations
Here at Blogging Rocket we are tired of the mailing list model. NO MORE: ‘Get a free Blahdy Blah when you subscribe…’ We tried to grow a mailing list, but to be honest our heart wasn’t in it. Our list never made it off the ground and secretly we are pleased it didn’t. Don’t get us wrong, we [...]
Continue reading...20. June 2009
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Title Tags in WordPress Themes
Here is a quick WordPress tip I thought I’d share with you all. It concerns the <title> tag in your WordPress Theme. Most of them are badly formed in my opinion, so with a little research, cribbing of other peoples ideas and trial and error I think I have found the best title tag arrangement. Open [...]
Continue reading...4. June 2009
WP 2.7 Screen Options Webcast
WordPress now gives you a great way of freeing up some of your page 'real estate' in the admin area. Please view the webcast
Continue reading...17. May 2009
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Netiquette
I wrote this article almost a year ago. I then left it on my PDA and forgot it existed. Tonight I had a conversation with my wife about an email she received which she didn’t like the tone of. I told her it’s very difficult to judge the ‘tone’ of an email because you have [...]
Continue reading...7. April 2009
Affiliate Pin Board Launches
All you have to do is head over to APB: http://www.affiliatepinboard.co.uk/affiliates/ and tell them about your affiliate program. They want to know about any and every you may run, or even just be are part of. APB will then follow your affiliate link and sign up to the program too and then make a post about it on the blog. This means that APB are then your 2nd tier affiliate (if that's a feature of your program) and the post on the blog will help to promote your money making efforts.
Continue reading...6. March 2009
I earned $6 this week for doing Nothing!
Here is how you can do it, it costs you nothing to implement and at some point down the road it 'MIGHT' earn you $6 too - it might earn you more than $6
Continue reading...21. October 2008
WordPress admin is Changing
Anyone who has knocked around WordPress for a while will be very familiar with the current admin interface. It works well enough but I’ve always been a bit annoyed that you can’t navigate to any option from anywhere you happen to be. For example it would be great to be able to go directly to [...]
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I make bookmarks of my most visited pages and my browser defaults to a local homepage on my Mac that has links to my frequent haunts, but I seem to be typing …/wp-admin all the time.
It’s not a hard folder name to type – but I wish it didn’t contain a dash and was slightly shorter. So I went and renamed my ‘wp-admin’ folder to ‘admin’.
Here is a tip: don’t do it because [...] Continue Reading…
Did you know there was an sweet spot for blog post length? It’s approx 300ish words according to my research. So how do you count your words? As I’ve said many times before don’t use Word to type your blog posts, so that means using Word’s count facility is out of the question. So what should you do? [...] Continue Reading…
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