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Quick Fixes to Common WordPress Problems: Part 1

Byte Technology

Although many WordPress users find them a little scary, shortcodes for widgets are great as they add functionality to text areas without having to know any real coding. If you’re scared about entering it manually, install the Shortcode Widget Plugin and let it do the work for you.

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The Fast Lane: More Ways to Speed Up Your WordPress Site

Byte Technology

And to make the situation even more serious to a site administrator, consider this: speed now figures prominently into Google rankings, so you may very well be losing massive amounts of attention during searches.

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Things We Like (January 2009)

NTEN

(There's even a bacon bra on Flickr, but you'll have to search for that yourself. The SpamTrap , "an interactive installation piece that prints, shreds and blacklists spam email". And our new Sprout-built fundraising widget could help as many as 57 people attend the 2009 NTC. It's a little disturbing.). That's gotta feel good.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

A Drupal or Wordpress site could include these features by adding modules/plug-ins/widgets. If users have to create an account, that in itself is a barrier, but it will allow you to delete accounts that spam. If you open up filesharing, you could expose your members to viruses, unhelpful or inappropriate content, or spam.

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Looking at Wave

Judi Sohn

When has making something slick and widget-y first ever brought mass appeal to a new concept? Gmail focused on simplicity first (great spam filtering, super fast search, conversation grouping) and then along came Labs years later to make it all interesting and wiz-bang. Somehow, I wonder if they have it backwards.

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Measuring the Value of Your Blog: Reflections Over the Last Year

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I want people who find me via a google search to want to stick around and join the conversation, not click away. " People who subscribe via RSS or email are making a commitment a level of above those clicking over from a google search or referral. I did not include spam comments or my own). And I think that's a good thing.