I like placing tag clouds on my blogs’ sidebars or footers. Displaying your blog’s tags in cloud format is an easy way to point your visitors to your most popular topics. The WordPress default tag cloud appearance leaves a little to be desired however, so this article explains how to format prettier tag clouds. In [...]
WPTwin: Blog Backups and Cloning Made Easy

The following article and video were submitted by Rosalind Gardner’s Academy member, Mark Washburn, who was keen to share what is undoubtedly the best solution to date for complete and easy WordPress backups (including blog, membership software, forum and more…) and WordPress blog cloning. Read Mark’s review of the WPTwin plugin and watch the video [...]
WP Shopping Pages: Review Posts Before Publishing
I’ve had the WP Shopping Pages plugin for quite awhile now and absolutely love it. I use it to auto-post products — mostly romantic movie DVD’s from Amazon — to my dating blog on a regular basis. Actually, the WP Shopping Pages plugin has been a real blessing. I haven’t been that keen to write [...]
WordPress Plugins and How I Use Them
Below is a list of my most frequently used WordPress plugins, along with descriptions of how I use them and links to examples in some cases. The name of each plugin is linked to its download page (each link opens a new window). Plugin Description Akismet Included with your WordPress installation, Akismet checks your comments [...]





