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Its time to get some of my WordPress sites set up to be more responsive to the ‘Mobile World’ . So I have spent the last couple of days investigating responsive themes. Firstly what is a responsive theme ?? A responsive theme should enable your site to work on the plethora of new devices and screen resolutions [...]

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Wp All Import Purchase Well I’ve finally got round to purchasing another datafeed importer. Now if this plugin operates as described and the support exists then I will be happy. WP All Import is a powerful WordPress affiliate store building plugin. WP All Import lets you create a ready-to-promote affiliate store, populated with thousands of [...]

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Simple Lightbox WordPress Plugin Want to display images in WordPress overlayed on to your sites page heres a very simple way using Simple Lightbox. Firstly ‘Lightbox’ is a method of showing an image on a Web page without leaving the page.It basically creates a pop-up of the image that is clicked. I have been looking for an [...]

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I have installed the WordPress Theme Demo Bar by Zenverse on my Stallion Theme Test Site. The WordPress Theme Demo Bar allows any wordpress theme to be previewed without activating it.The  demo bar is shown on top the page, allow users to preview another theme. I have set the widget up in the sidebar so it easy to swith [...]

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WordPress Plugin Info Plugin I’ve been playing around with the WordPress Plugin Info Plugin for the last couple of days and have implemented it on MyWordPress. Basically this plugin pulls information regarding a specific plugin that is hosted on the WordPress directory. Theres a vast array of info that can be called back by specifying [...]

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I have spent a considerable amount of time over the last couple of days messing about with RSS Aggregators with various levels of success.
In the end I have opted for the super simple ,and by simple I mean simple but powerful

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The Post Title Scrolling at the top of www.mywordpress.co.uk is created using the Post Title Marquee Scroll WordPress plug-in.

This plugin gives you a number of options

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The recent version of Shortcodes Ultimate gives us the Accordian shortcode.Basically this means that when you have more than one spoiler on a post or page only 1 of them will stay open. To understand what this means have a look at the demo below. Stallion Theme users may notice that I am using the Remove [...]

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The Scrolling Pop-Up for WordPress gives you a simple way to drop a Pop-Up box onto your site. I have the POP-Up configured to show an AD on the home page which is activated from a PHP call in the header and then the demo POP-UP that displays when this post is visited which is [...]

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The latest version of the Stallion WordPress Theme is now available .

A few of the changes are listed here

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A nice way to review the colour options for your WordPress Theme is to give the user the ability to review what CSS layouts are available. The Chameleon CSS Switcher WordPress Plugin by the Wegrass team allows you to give your site this ability. The Chameleon CSS plugin has the following options Time condition : sunrise, [...]

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The latest update to the Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress enables a shortcode for embedding a simple google map. To demonstrate I have recently come back from a weeks break in Weymouth were we had hired a cottage ,   Again really  simple to use.

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The Seven Days WordPress Plugin by the Wegrass Team gives you the option to set what days of the week a widget is displayed. A nice graphical interface which you just click to show or hide what days your widget will appear. So for testing purposes I have set up seven widgets with each one set to [...]

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Having installed the Shortcodes into  Text Widget Plugin thought I would look at expanding the smilies usage on MyWordPress . Having tried out a couple of smilies plugins I have opted for the Custom Smilies plugin by Crazy Loong . This adds a popup  selector on the write post menu so you can pick a smiley to insert  also adds [...]

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The Vertical Scroller for WordPress  or  gives you an easy way to put vertical scrolling content into your widgetized theme. The WordPress vertical scroller scrolls each entry one at time within the widget. Its easy to install and setup ,you can set a expiration date for each entry and customise the display. You can use this Vertical [...]

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I have upgraded the site to Wordpress 2.7.1 which does not seem to have caused any issues and done some upgrades on a couple of the plugins.

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Have finally got round to installing the latest version of WordPress on MyWordPress.I have spent the last couple of weeks testing it on a local set up. One of the concerns that I had was if Shifter would play nicely a rather foolish thought really given the design of Shifter. I have not made my mind [...]

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Well several minutes ago I applied the latest Wordpess update ,currently 2.6.3 . I had updated another site of mine a few days ago and there seemed to be no issues so applied the update here also.

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So does loading your site with Affiliate links really pay dividends. I suspect given that my conversion rate is pretty low that there is some reluctance on the visitor to accept that there is nothing dodgy going on when they click on a link that takes them to a totally different site. If you consider [...]

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Well having tested out Wordpres 2.6 on www.ituneit.co.uk I have upgraded this site to WordPress 2.6. I have not noticed any issues so far with either the install or any of the plugins that are used on this site. As always it looks like a easy no problem upgrade lets hope it stays that way.

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This is a test post using WordPress for my Blackberry. Will be interested if this proves to be of any benefit.

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Well after giving it some thought I have upgraded www.ituneit.co.ukto WordPress 2.6 ,this is another Shifter Themed site that I own. I am currently testing the plugins to make sure there are no issues. If all is well I will upgrade this site later in the week.I will keep this post updated if I discover [...]

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So the latest version of WordPress is here.I am waiting a few weeks before I upgrade this Shifter site just to ensure there are no major bugs. From the WordPress team I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist [...]

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I upgraded today and really wish I had not bothered.   Problem after problem ,cannot post,cannot edit existing posts the whole admin area screwed up,plugins that worked fine befoe the upgrade stopped working.   Do NOT upgrade until the problems are sorted.

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