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To get you started in the right direction, here are four tools that can help turn your WordPress website into a powerful growth engine.

If you've been thinking of starting a blog or launching a website for your business for quite a long time, it's the right time to do that. WordPress gives you thousands of options to run and manage any kind of website or blog, be it a corporate one, or just a personal blog to share a couple of posts from time to time.

Let's see what steps you'll need to go through and what WordPress tools and products will come in handy to help you get started.

It's very hard to earn fame in the highly competitive graphic design industry. You should start giving interviews and write a book to earn respect of your fellow designers and clients. You can also join social network websites and write guest posts to prove your expertise.

Common types of logos include nameless logos, typographic logos, and type and symbol logos. Start-ups and known companies can use typographic or type and symbol logos. Nameless logos are more suited to companies who have established themselves as iconic brands.

A list of 5 easy to implement money making systems available for the Wordpress platform. Great for the Internet Marketing newbie looking for a fast starting point.

"In this article, I'll show you in a few short steps how to get started with modifying the login screen so that users experience a customized, branded look and feel. I went over the top with this design just to show how dramatically the login form can be stylized using a simple mod to the functions.php file and some CSS."

"There's one phrase every internet user will be horribly familiar with. A set of words they'll have encountered hundreds, if not thousands of times, and that always prompts a brief moment of confusion: The page cannot be found. The page you're looking for might've been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. "Did I make a mistake while typing?" you ask. "Is the site down? It was working a few minutes ago!" For web developers however, 404 errors are not simply small nuisances but rather a leading cause of sleepless nights. Brief downtime or linking mistakes can lead to visitors leaving your site altogether, and a multitude of dead pages can cost you in terms of SEO. Luckily there are a large number of WordPress plugins dedicated specifically to solving this problem. However, before we discuss the leading candidates, let's start with a brief word about 404s. 1. 404 Page 2. All 404 Redirect to Homepage 3. 404 to 301 4. Custom 404 Pro 5. 404 Error Logger 6. Redirection"

Peter Nilsson started WP Daily Themes to initially write about themes and plugins but, in recent years, it has grown beyond his expectations. 

"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…"

"Unless you've been hiding under a (presumably delightfully comfortable) rock for the past few years, you will have noticed the extraordinary rise in the popularity of podcasting (one billion podcast subscriptions was passed way back in 2013). And being the enterprising type, you're ready to wade in and grab the opportunity that podcasting presents with both hands. As a WordPress site owner, you'll be delighted to hear that podcasting and WordPress go hand in hand. To save you the unnecessary hassle and effort that can be involved with integrating podcasts with your WordPress site, we've rounded up seven of the top podcasting plugins out there for you to consider below. By the end of the piece, you're sure to have found a solution to suit your needs. Before we crack on to the list though, let's cover some background on podcasting itself. A Brief Overview of Podcasting Podcasting's history goes back further than blogging itself. Although its roots lie in the 1980s indie radio boom, the modern format become popular in 2004 through platforms such as Odeo. During that time, the iPod was the dominant force in online media consumption. Developers and radio enthusiasts were on the lookout for a way to easily add their programs to the device and Apple's 2005 integration of podcasts in iTunes set the ball rolling in earnest. Since then, podcasts have been created by every conceivable media outlet and organization on earth and opened the door for many individual voices. Some of the most popular podcasts have been entertainment-based. The Ricky Gervais Show, for example, started life as an incredibly popular podcast with roots in traditional radio. Due to its success, the show grew into an HBO series with multiple spinoff shows starring various cast members. Other popular podcasts explore a diverse range of topics with standout examples including This American Life, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Nerdist, and Radiolab. The more technically inclined amongs

"The Wordfence WordPress security plugin provides free enterprise-class WordPress security, protecting your website from hacks and malware. Wordfence starts by checking if your site is already infected. We do a deep server-side scan of your source code comparing it to the Official WordPress repository for core, themes and plugins. Then Wordfence secures your site and makes it up to 50 times faster"

What are you're dreaming about? Share your dreams with us. Let´s start our next roundup with someone's story. Here are WP Daily Themes Weekly WordPress Roundup #26.

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.

I have decided to start a new series on this blog: One Way Link Building. It is main design and goal to help you - the blogger take advantage of the options you already have. It is one fact nobody will argue - the more incoming links you have to your site or blog with just the right mix of attributes - the better you will be ranked by Google, Yahoo and MSN.

"Hybrid is more than just a WordPress theme. It's about pushing the limits with what WordPress can do. It's a framework. Something you can use to build anything from the smallest family blog to a powerful site that handles thousands of visitors a day." BENEFITS - THE SHORT LIST: * Developed with child themes in mind, so you'll never lose your customizations. * SEO optimized. No need for plugins to handle this anymore. * Theme options that are about content/information. * Templates for everything. * 13 page templates. * Actively developed for WP 2.7 but backward compatible down to 2.5. * 15+ plugins supported within the theme. * Attachment handling like you've never experienced. * Advanced breadcrumbs beyond any other theme. * Ability to run just about any type of site. * And over 20 tutorials to start.

When your self hosted wordpress site is getting slow, or lots of cpu quota exceeded errors, how do you fix it? One place you need to look is in your main directory (using c-panel's file manager) - find a file called tmp. Inside it, you'll see several folders, one of them is "slow mysql queries". I used cheap shared hosting like most people (blue host, host gator, etc.). Because of that, you will experience problems - especially if you start getting a lot of traffic. What I'm meaning is 500+ individual visitors per day.

Becoming a better blogger takes some patience and a bit of elbow grease - but it is worth it when you start seeing the results you have been looking for. It doesn't matter if your goals are more traffic, making money online or interacting with others.