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May 21, 2012

Wishlist Member Review: How to Turn Your WordPress Blog into a Membership Site

With all my affiliate site posts queued up for the next 2 months and some time on my hands this weekend, I decided to get to work making the Super Affiliate Handbook available as an online tutorial, through a membership site. My primary concern was how to set up a membership site easily. Gail and [...]

Testing Out the “No Feed” Plugin

Have you ever wanted to stop the feeds on your blog? For example, if you wanted to import a number of static HTML articles that you had elsewhere on your site and post them into your blog without sending an email to all of your Feedburner email subscribers each time you posted one of those [...]

Feedburner to Google Account Deadline Today

Today is the deadline to have all your FeedBurner accounts moved over to your Google account. Although I’ve heard various opinions on whether the old Feedburner subscriptions will continue to work – with some bloggers reporting that subscriptions should work indefinitely and others already reporting glitches with the old addresses – I’d trust the Feedburner [...]

Blog Bloat? Pull that Plugin!

The other day, I was chatting with my friend Michael Lovitch (Hypnosis Network – their Productivity & Engineering procrastination-solving product is amazing BTW, I can’t believe how much I’ve accomplished so far this year!!!) — and he was mentioning how his company uses WordPress, but has had the backend completely redesigned to minimize the relentless [...]

reCAPTCHA Troubles with WordPress 2.7 Upgrade

After manually upgrading the NPT blog to WordPress 2.7, I was feeling pretty proud of myself… and relieved. Because the blog was installed manually, I do manual upgrades and hold my breath in suspense each and every time until the very end of the process when the software tells me that the upgrade was performed [...]

BlogRush: Death of a Widget

Although I never became a fan of John Reese’s BlogRush widget – having placed it on my site and removed it after only 2 days – I was still sorry to hear that due to “dreadfully low” click-rates across the network, John announced on October 29th that the BlogRush site and widget would be shut [...]

Plugin Checks for Broken Links

Having found 36 broken links on my blog — Broken Link Checker has just become my new favorite WordPress plugin. It also checks for missing images and will notify you through your blog’s dashboard (and the Manage -> Broken Links panel) if any are found. Here’s a list of Broken Link Checker’s features: