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"Control the appearance of WordPress post excerpts This plugin adds several improvements to WordPress' default way of creating excerpts. Keeps HTML markup in the excerpt (and you get to choose which tags are included) Trims the excerpt to a given length using either character count or word count Only the 'real' text is counted (HTML is ignored but kept) Customizes the excerpt length and the ellipsis character that are used Completes the last word or sentence in an excerpt (no weird cuts) Adds a read-more link to the text Ignores custom excerpts and use the generated one instead Theme developers can use the_advanced_excerpt() for even more control (see the FAQ) Most of the above features are optional and/or can be customized by the user or theme developer."

"Make comments management easier by applying some of the simple hacks the Yoast team uses. Make comments management easier by applying some of the simple hacks the Yoast team uses. This plugin adds some small hacks around core WordPress comments to make them more bearable: Cleaner comment notification emails. The option to disallow comments below a certain length. The option to redirect first time commenters to a thank you page. An input field on the comment edit screen to change the comment parent ID. Links in the admin comments section to email individual commenters. A button in the WP toolbar to email all the commenters on a post. See the screenshots to get an even better idea of the plugins functionality."

Getting into the flow, let's check out the tidbits from the WordPress community last week. Here is WP Daily Themes Weekly WordPress Roundup #14.

"It's been a while since I pulled a plugin list post, so here is one just to get our groove back on. Before we take it too far though, I'd urge you to spare a few minutes, and check out these other lists: 20 Best Social Media Plugins for WordPress, 20 Great Admin WordPress Plugins, 40 Must-Have WordPress Plugins, and 10 BuddyPress Plugins You Must Have, among others. That aside, how about we drop the anchor and set sail? Good. To make loyal customers out of your readers, you have to keep wowing them with more of your awesome content. After all, creating content like a god won't mean jack if no one can find it long after it has disappeared from your front page. So stop losing visitors left, right and center, and actively engage them with more content - more related content that will keep readers from exiting your site from the entry post. Good news is with the right related post plugin, you can direct users to more of your content, and keep them on your site longer, which - if you're wondering - increases your chances of making a sale. In this post, we will unveil a few select related post plugins for WordPress, so you can drive user engagement, boost your page impressions, and hopefully net those elusive sales. Enjoy and share your favorite related posts plugins at the end! Let's start with…"

This is a step by step guide on How To Start a Blog Using the best tools out there, this guide show step by step how to do it. We use WordPress and free tools to get it done. You don't need any expertise or previous experience.

We have all heard this before: "you can do everything with WordPress." That's actually true. WordPress is a powerful open source content management system that can handle any type of website, as long as you have the right theme. Best of all, in most cases, you won't have to break the bank to get the job done.

Yukon Blue Magazine Web2.0 Wordpress Theme Template, Very High Quality Design Theme for Wordpress Called Yukon, nice looking Business wordpress theme by iThemes. It has all the simple features you could want making your blog easy to get around making life for your reader much less confusing in finding what they are looking for. Yukon comes with extendable drop down menus, a Picture on the blogs homepage prefect for your businesses Logo, A choice of 8 different colour schemes from Blue, Gray, Green, Pink, Plum, Red, Rust, Turquoise, A Great Business Wordpress Theme for anyone, This work is under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License, This means you may use it and make any changes you like, However, credit links must remain on footer for legal use, This Theme Was Tested and Work Fine On IE 6.0 & 7.0, Mozilla Firefox, Opera 9.02, Google Chrome and Safari Web Broswers, this Theme Was Tested on The Latest Wordpress Version Also.

Wordpress.org forum post: I finally got the thumbnails working in Arras. Now I have two pictures in the actual post. When someone clicks the story, One photo is above the post and then the photo appears in the post as it should be. How do I get rid of the extra photo?

My inquiry at the Arras Theme Community Forums. An attempt to get sub-pages to be listed under main pages in the same way that you would find if you clicked on a "category" list.

WordPress offers tons of plugins which confuses the new user. Not just that but there are multiple plugins that serves the same purpose and have the same functions. Which one do you need to get the upper edge, we will cover it in this article. We are only mentioning the plugins that you need to start off your blog, so custom plugins will not be listed in this article, but you may find it being reviewed in our Plugins Category.

Top 5 CSS frameworks listed: 960, blueprint, jQuery UI, YAML, YUI. \n\nAlso 'worth mentioning': typogridphy, SenCSs, A CSS Framework, tripoli, bluetrip, emastic, wymstyle, elements, malo, logiccss.

Fighting Comment Spam on a WordPress blog is a never ending battle. Since I provide DoFollow options and use 2 plugins that reward commenters even more: CommentLuv and KeywrodLuv - I get a LOT of comment spam.

Making money with your blog is easy and actually almost automated once your blog gets a bit of age and ranking. This is mainly due to the fact that most blogs die a lot sooner than traditional websites and advertisers view them as "more volatile" investment but once you have proven that your blog is here to stay - You Got Yourself Blog Income Potential!

Expert Wordpress ... takes the blogging adventure even further and you can get into the basic (Gold) membership for only $27!

Article Marketing is one of the most effective and natural ways to build incoming links to your site or blog and increase authority status. It is also one of the simplest and cost effective as most article directories are free to submit your content to. Problem comes into to play when you attempt to submit to many sites to increase effectiveness of the strategy - Article Marketing Is Time Consuming! Anyone who is done it before (free) knows that I'm right and most of the time I simply go for article distribution services which cost me - but saves time. And time is of essence! If you feel same way - you might want to read this post as I'm about to describe: * How To Build Incoming Links * How To Get Content to Your Blog!

If..Else is the personal site of Phu Ly, a developer living in London. Pull up a seat, take a look around, check out the archives, find out more about me or even get in touch.

all you have to do is locate some blogs that support CommentLuv and DoFollow and begin getting some Link Love!