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Removing the Date from Older Posts in WordPress

August 2, 2009
Suppress Date in Old Wordpress Posts

Are your timeless Wordpress posts not getting the search engine love they deserve because an old date is turning off potential visitors? Do you have some content you only want to display on new or old posts? This how-to tutorial explains how to control the date display based on post age, but the concepts are easily adapted to other needs.

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Beginner’s Guide to Installing WordPress

July 31, 2009
Learn how to install wordpress

Wordpress is a powerful, easy-to-use blogging engine that can easily be adapted as a lightweight content management system (CMS). With all the options, extensions via plugins, themes and tutorials out there for Worpdress, it makes a great choice–even (or especially) for web newbies. But if you don’t have experience, understanding your choices and getting it set up can be daunting. So here’s a begginers’ guide to setting up Wordpress just for you!

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WP Quick Tip: Using Outdated WordPress Plugins Safely

May 4, 2009
How to tell if you should use your outdated Wordpress WP Plugin on your current WP installation.

The lure of Wordpress is largely in the huge variety of plugins. But sometimes the plugin you really want was made for an older version of WP. How to check out the plugin and safely see if it will still work for your needs.

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True Cost of Junk Mail: Opt-out of Unwanted Direct Mail

February 4, 2009
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Driving the the grocery store yesterday, I caught a bit of an NPR program where an environmentalist from ForestEthics was taking about efforts to save rain forests and wilderness areas. I didn’t catch all of the details (and haven’t been able to locate the audio file), but one fact clearly penetrated my consciousness: paper for catalogs and [...]

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