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Let’s start the week with a little bit of open discussion.  I want to pose the following question: “How can you use a commentors email address?” Let’s step through the process, to leave a comment on a WordPress site you need to leave your email address.  Is this an indication you want to be contacted, have you given your email address over to be contacted by the site owner? The email addresses are sitting there in your WordPress database, with a little effort they can be exported and use by the site owner to send content or offers to the […]

I’m quietly opening the doors of my online store this afternoon with the general release of my first mini course, WP Troubleshooting. What’s Am I Selling In My Store I’m going to build a series of mini courses from my store.  The course will solve particular WordPress problems. The mini guides will be held in their own micro sites where you can watch the video tutorials, download text and PDF documents and get support from me via forums or comments How Much Will The Mini Courses Be? I’m planning to charge 20-40 dollars per course depending upon the subject matter and th […]

I’ve just found a nifty thing about twitter in Jade Cravens Twitter mini guide (aff) and thought I would share it. Not a lot of people know this but you can store up certain tweets in your twitter feed and use them as a type of testimonial list The Favourite Function When you mark a tweet as a favourite it is stored in a permanent store against your twitter account, you can then direct people to that URL and use people’s comments as a series of 140 character testimonials. Your Testominal Engine URL If you go to http://twitter.com/{YOURID}/favourites you can […]

This is a guest post by Areej from WinkPress.com. When most people hear WordPress, they think “blog.” But WordPress is more than a tool for making blogs. If you understand how WordPress works, you know that it can make any type of website–even a website like Amazon.com! Two different types of Amazon Associates can both use WordPress effectively. Bloggers who’re using WordPress have a plethora of Amazon Associate tools at their disposal. WordPress is their best choice. Similarly, affiliate marketers who’re building Amazon niche stores also have access to tools that could transform WordPress into an Amazon.com replica. That’s why […]

This time last year I wrote a post on a doing a new years blog tidy up, you can read it here https://ibraininc.com/year-blog-tidy/. I think the post still stands and I want to update it by telling you about a new plugin I have been alerted to. Plugins Garbage Collector The plugin I have found is called Plugins Garbage Collector, it can be downloaded from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/plugins-garbage-collector/ It’s an incredibly useful plugin that helps to find redundant tables in your database which can then be tidied up. What It Does This clever little plugin references your installed and active plugins looking for […]