Items of Interest: Wordpress




Installing Wordpress on IIS

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Found a great tutorial for installing Wordpress via wampserver.com on IIS

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My hand-picked list of 7 Premium WordPress Theme Providers

Web Development, Webdesign/SEO, Wordpress, Wordpress 2 Comments

here’s my exclusive list of premium Wordpress theme providers I have considered purchasing a theme from. Truth be told, I would love to own them all but alas money makes my world go around so I have to choose one (ok..maybe 3) and dive in head first. I will buy one eventually for my consulting site at www.redprimary.com

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Windows Live Writer Excerpts

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I wouldn’t call myself a Wordpress expert quite just yet. Excerpts, for example, are something I still haven’t got my head quite around yet but I understand what they are for the most part – optional text that summarizes your post. As you can see on my home page, though, I have figured out excerpts and how to make them appear (I can send you my templates if you like). Now mind you, there are still a few things I expect to tweak (I hate the line break and also want to retain HTML tags) but it turns out

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5 minute CSS page templates

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Looking for some great links and resources for CSS compliant templates? I have some links you might be interested in! In the past, I have produced pages, the old school way with tables and dirty in-line code. CSS is the new pink in web design now. It’s more browser compliant and easier for search engines to read. The basic idea is that with well produce CSS and DIV tags, you can separate content from design. This benefits designers in being able to change the site easily, and it benefits search engines as pages becomes easier to parse (mostly because h1, h2, etc tags and content can be easily identified on a page).

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960 pixel wide Basic Wordpress Theme

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The Basic Wordpress theme by Theme-labs and Ben Swift is great, but I found a few problems with it. I also decided to make it available for download also at

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