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Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.

I just updated one of my WordPress blogs to the latest version available, directly from the WP admin panel. After hitting the “please update now” link, I was quickly presented this message: “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.” For the first minute or so I thought WordPress was working in the [...]

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How to Set Up Your WordPress Blog

This article is going to show you how to set up a WordPress blog. Before setting up WordPress and starting blogging, you will need to register a domain name and find a hosting plan. That might sound obvious to most of you but I want to make sure to be as clear as possible for [...]

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Content is King

A friend of mine sent me an email and asked me the following question about content creation. Instead of replying to him, I thought that would be a good case study about duplicate content and how to create good content for your site. If you have questions you’d like me to answer, feel free to [...]

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25 WordPress Plugins I Use On A Daily Basis

WordPress is my favorite blogging platform for one simple reason: it is flexible! I am still amazed that Blogger and TypePad are still in business… What I really like about WordPress is the level of customization you can get to. From custom themes to plugins, WordPress has made it easy for noobies to set up, [...]

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New Blog Design

Every 6 months or so, I like to get a new blog theme for my blogs. I was way overdue with this one as I hadn’t updated it since May 2008. As usual when looking for an original WordPress theme, I went directly to Smashing Magazine as they always have the best looking designs for [...]

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How To Improve The Search Feature Of Your WordPress Blog

I do think both solutions I will talk about in this post are much better at delivering very good search results for your WordPress blog. By "good search results", I mean results that are relevant to your search query and sorted by relevance.

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How To Upgrade WordPress Without Losing Your Plugins

WordPress just released version 2.7 of their software and I have to say that it is one big update! Although there is not much change in the overall functionalities, something that changes is the overall layout of the admin panel. The WP team has spent a lot of time and put quite a bit in [...]

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Can’t login to WordPress after upgrading

Today I upgraded my personal franchise blog from WordPress 2.1 to WordPress 2.6.2. I know, what a big upgrade… To do so, I simply went to my webhost admin panel and used their one-click upgrade service. Within 2 minutes I received an email from my host telling me that everything went fine. So I tried [...]

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12 WordPress plugins I can’t live without

I have 3 different blogs (1, 2, 3) that are powered by WordPress, which is without a doubt the best blogging platform out there. The good thing with WordPress is that it is open source, which means anyone can create plugins to improve WordPress’ backend to fit one’s needs. There are 12 plugins that I [...]

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