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Bloggercamp Saved by DNS Propogation at the Last Minute

If some of you have been coming around my site, about half of you have been seeing the old bloggercamp.com (hosted on dreamhost) the other half have been seeing a default install of wordpress for bloggercamp(hosted on hostgator). I recently switched host providers from dreamhost to hostgator in hopes that access times, and server downtimes would [...]

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5 WordPress Plugins that Save You Time

Over my tenure as an avid WordPress user and blogger I’ve come across various plugins that deserve a bit of the limelight. A few of these I use on other blogs, including bloggercamp. I’m shocked at the community behind all the great WordPress Plugins. So follow on and find out how to save some time with [...]

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How to update to WordPress 2.3 without (as many)headaches

Preparation First this you need to do is follow this tutorial How to install WordPress on your local PC. Except at the end do not install WordPress at all… Instead ftp to your webhost and copy your entire WordPress base directory to your c:\www folder and change your wp-config.php file accordingly. From your webhost, export your entire [...]

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Alternating Recent Post and Comment Background Colors in WordPress

I am in the midst of developing a new WordPress Theme from the ground up (empty theme folder)… and after going through the WordPress Codex, I put together a useful manner of manually displaying Recent Post and Recent Comment background colors in the sidebar. Something which I’ll be showing off very shortly. It must be noted, [...]

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How to Post from a Single Category by Name using WordPress

I was recently asked how I achieved the “featured theme” sticky on my front page and I’d like to share. I only use the “themes” category to showcase my themes, and I just wanted to feature my last theme posted so I came up with this php workaround. The following code registers necessary global variables and [...]

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How to install WordPress on your local PC

Reposted due to popular demand(and me overlooking the popularity when it was removed). It is vital to development to have a local install of WordPress. I personally use WAMP5 Server (wamp = windows apache mysql and php) as my development environment on my local computer. I find it extremely user-friendly and low on computer resource consumption. [...]

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