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What’s the weather like?

Here’s another good plugin that can fit quite a few websites. It’s called WP-Weather and lets you pop a weather forecast on your website with no effort at all. It uses the weather from weather.com and even generates an image … Continue reading

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Google Maps plugin

Here’s a great plugin if you ever need a map on your website. The Google Maps for WordPress plugin lets you easily embed a map into your Wordpress blog without having to mess around with code or embeds. All you … Continue reading

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Affiliate plugin

Have you ever used your affiliate links on your website? If you have, you should be looking at a plugin like WP-Affiliate. The plugin works by masking your affiliate links and make them seamless against the rest of your website. … Continue reading

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School themes for Wordpress

I’ve just came across a collection of free school themes for WordPress. They will be useful for anyone building up an educational site, whether it’s for a school, an after school club, or even a particular class. There are a … Continue reading

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Coping with the load

Are you ready for the big time? What’s the difference you may ask? Well, if your site gets really really popular you may be getting thousands of page hits an hour and unless your server is designed to handle the … Continue reading

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Wordpress 3.0.1

Where there’s a new version, there’s bound to be a service release that fixes some minor bugs. And this was the case with WordPress 3.0 too. WordPress 3.0.1 has hit the streets with fixes for around 50 minor issues. It … Continue reading

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WP Auctions 3.7

photo credit: walknboston There’s a new version of WP Auctions in town, the plugin that turns your WordPress blog into an fully fledged auction site.The new version has some new features, like the ability to customise the automated emails sent … Continue reading

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Cutting down the extra bits

Here’s an interesting plugin. It’s called WPlite and lets you hide extra bits from your Administration menu. If you’re preparing a site for someone else to use, then having all the menu options that Wordpress provides can be a bit … Continue reading

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WordCamp this weekend

There are only a few days left before it’s WordCamp time! I’m thrilled to be able to go to WordCamp UK this year. I’ve been wanting to go since I heard about WordCamps, and this one just happened to fit … Continue reading

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NextGen Gallery Plugin

What plugin do you use to display your photos? One of my favourites is one called NextGEN Gallery Plugin which lets you upload and store photos and even display them on a slide show on your blog. The plugin allows … Continue reading

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