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Having more than one blog, site, or whatever you want to call them seems rather outdated by today’s standards. The power of feeder sites, are often overlooked. What better way to gain links, then from simply linking between sites in your network.
A great Wordpress plugin called Page Links To allows you to redirect article links within your loop to the URL of your choice. In other words, a simple Wordpress plugin that allows you to redirect page or post urls to the link of your choice.
For example, you can redirect users to other sites on your network. So if I have multiple financial sites, then I can link between them flawlessly.
Once you install the plug-in all you need to do is scroll down to the bottom of the post creation page and insert the URL in the respective field.
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Regardless of the type of site you are running, the need for some type of content management system (CMS) is a must. Just think about how much time you can save by not needing to directly edit any web design code to update your site every time.
CMS and other similar scripts have become so popular now that most hosting companies offer solutions that allow you to install them in just a couple of minutes and with no web coding know-how.
Below is a video that will run though how to setup your own hosted Wordpress blog in just under 5 minutes.
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When it comes to working with Wordpress and designing in general the ability to quickly preview your changes and edits helps move the process along much faster. While you can easily see regular HTML and CSS files on your computer no problem, when you start to use databases and PHP, you need a server that can interpret these documents…
Unfortunately that means you need to set this up on your computer, but that is where we come in.
Note: Some Mac users seem to have trouble uploading images with the latest WP builds.
A few reasons to consider installing Wordpress locally:
- Can see changes made without the need to upload.
- Can upload complete theme once, design looks right.
- Can play, test, and build your designing skills without risking your actual site.
The following tutorial will teach you step-by-step how to install Wordpress locally…
1. Download Software (Free)
Yes there is other software, but, for ease and cross-platform capability, download the version of XAMPP suitable for your operating system.
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Obviously, the ideal Wordpress theme would allow you to do almost all customizing of not just your site’s content, but also the layout directly from your admin panel. While most templates are now being published with some sort of management through the panel such as color scheme or where to put your sidebars, you still really don’t have the option to completely customize where you want each individual piece to go.
Until Thesis came around…
You might not have realized it, but Thesis seems to be used on almost every other site nowadays, but you can’t tell because they have all customized it their own way… and done it straight through the admin panel. Lets take a look at some notable examples…
Tipd
Bankling
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The beauty of Wordpress is the ability to create such complex websites, with little to no actual coding knowledge. Wordpress plugins allow you to personlize, customize, and enhance the look, feel, and flow of your site. While you do not want to flood your site with every plugin you come across, there are a few plugins that are a must for every Wordpress user.
1. All in One SEO - This plugin allows you customize the head tags and meta tags for each individual post. This will help improve the search engine optimization of your site. [Download]
2. SEO Smart Links – Do you get tired of linking the same keywords everytime? With this plugin, you can specify keywords and what they should link to. You can also choose to link to other articles within you site automatically, which helps your SEO as well. [Download]
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The easiest step to outsource in all of the “make money online” process is the design phase. With so many tools and resources available, why waste time coming up with that perfect design when you can just find one already made and run with it?
Just like with any business, time is money.
If you are uncomfortable with coding and web design, but still trying to create your site from scratch, to save a couple dollars, you are going to be wasting so much precious time. Even if you had to pay $30 to get a design template, you will easily save more money than spending hours trying to come up with your own design.
Better yet, there are always tricks, tactics, and other special coding stuff that will boost your traffic, but you probably don’t know them. These designers do.
There is only one problem… How do you find good quality templates?
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Why would it matter what the build of Wordpress is? Almost every time Wordpress releases a full on update they usually add some new template tags, codes, or other strings that don’t work anymore or they created some new stuff that is much more efficient.
If you are planning to build your site around a theme, then wouldn’t you want that one to have the most bells and whistle that it could? The following is a lit of some of the best free themes that I recommend to use with Wordpress 2.8.
Blog Themes
One Room – Demo
Fusion – Demo
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