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There’s a very good looking premium WordPress themes give-away contest going on over at WordPress Theme Designer. Check out the details here…
Prizes for the Premium Themes Contest by WordPress Theme Designer!

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If you have an occasional Microsoft Word document or RTF formatted document you want to convert to clean HTML–and I mean HTML that has no more than standard formatting applied such as bold and italics but no font or color declarations–and you have to get those documents on the internet, then it’s hard to find [...]

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Very handy WordPress Theme Generator (via WTC)

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Matt and Lorelle announce a delay of WordPress 2.2.

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NASA Ames Research Center
(HT: Matt)

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I think this is a very good move. Small Potato–who is no small potato when it comes to WordPress themes–it looks like he has well over 30 well designed themes–has just committed to switching all his themes from Creative Commons licensing to GPL.
What he’s done is very good for the WordPress community. It has been [...]

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I’m get questions about what themes I’d recommend for WordPress. Here’s a list of themes that I find most suitable for tweaking for most website needs.
Cutline
Pressrow
K2
Kubrick - WordPress Default 1.5
MistyLook 2.3
Tarski 1.2
Fauna
blog.txt 1.2
Simplr 1.4.1
k2redux-warhol white
Most of the themes at wpthemes.info are quite good
WordPress.org also lists a few good themes
And of course Heminway [...]

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Wow–a very nice WordPress theme viewer has been released. Check it out, choose a theme. (from)

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This should be the new default administration panel design for WordPress. Very nice!

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This appears to be a promising introduction to personalizing the design of your WordPress powered site.

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From the WordPress Codex site:
WordPress Lessons, tutorials, tips, techniques, and step-by-step guides for WordPress users. Whether you are new to WordPress, or a veteran, the following Lessons will help you learn more about how to use WordPress.
Our goal is to help you learn more about how to use WordPress, and how to take advantage of [...]

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There’s now a pile of themes for WordPress 1.5 available as a part of the theme competition at alexking.com. Now there’s a cool theme browser to help you find the one that’s right for your blog.

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Does having Google AdSense ads on your pages get them indexed quicker by Google? Gagetopia thinks so.

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WP-Junkies - one more place to get your fill of WordPress goodness.

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Weblog Tools Collection points to a decent looking tutorial for setting up and using their One Click Backup Plugin for Wordpress 1.5. The tutorial is a good step-by-step with lots of screen shots. There are now no excuses for not keeping your WordPress install backed up.

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There seems to be a growing list of themes for WordPress 1.5.

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Close on the heels of my previous post about blogging and increasing web site traffic I’m sending you to this helpful piece that could help you grow a highly visible site: 26steps to 15k a Day.
via: 456 Berea Street

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Here’s a good introduction to Wiki’s for those who are just discovering them or are totally clueless.
Using a Wiki for Documentation and Collaborative Authoring
Via: digital-web.com

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Digital Web Magazine has a helpful article that could be well applied to most ministry websites.
Ten things your web sites should be doing

Offering regularly updated information (blogs, CMSs, etc.)
Increased efficiency in news and information distribution (RSS, ATOM, etc.)
Alternative methods of information distribution (email newsletters, RSS, del.icio.us, etc.)
Enhanced notification and announcement systems (pings, email alerts, etc.)
A [...]

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With all the WordPress installs I’ve done and maintain backups are critical. You should backup your data oten. You never know when you’re going to wish you had. With that in mind this link may be helpful.
WordPress FAQ - How do I backup and restore my WordPress database using phpMyadmin?
I previously linked to Tamba2�s WordPress [...]

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Just noticed this at Binary Bonsai: Pesudo-Serious WordPress Bug. If you’re using either of the WordPress versions mentioned below you may want to make the quick change to the wp-login.php file mentioned here.
You’ll probably want to make sure that you remove these lines from your wp-login.php, as they can cause the overwriting of your site’s [...]

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I make available the service of hosting websites to Churches, Ministries, friends and family and I usually install or highly recommend WordPress as a means for maintaining the content. I’ve collected here a few links to documentation and posts I made here to help with the installation and maintenance of WordPress.
WordPress Documentation
WordPress Installation
The WordPress Wiki [...]

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I find myself sending others to the many free design templates for WordPress lately. So I thought a roundup of those I know of would be handy. Point me to others in the comments.
AlexKing.org has a boat load of design templates for WordPress.
There’s the Kubrick design which this sites design is based on.
Neil Turner [...]

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If you would like to list the most recently posted entries or do other similar tricks with WordPress the Customizable Post Listings plugin looks like it should do the job.

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From TechGnome’s World comes this static pages in WordPress plugin: StaticEez.

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Acronym Replacer is a convenient plugin for WordPress.

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Here’s a place to find templates for popular blogging systems: CMS Styles

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Here are a couple of handy solutions for browsing images from the WordPress admin screen that have been uploaded and for posting the thumbnail and image in the post. These improve the image handling capability of uploaded images in a WordPress powered site.
bistr-o-mathik.org’s Image Browser
and
ali-hassan.net’s WordPress Thumb-in-Post plugin

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Here’s a pretty thorough review of WorPress in case you’re trying to decide if it’s for you or not.
WordPress Blog Publishing Platform Review

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The Customizable Post Listings Plugin:
Display Recent Posts, Recently Commented Posts, Recently Modified Posts, and other post listings using the post information of your choosing in an easily customizable manner (so no need to tweak plugin code). You can narrow post searches by specifying categories and/or authors, among other things.

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