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Get it Right the First Time: Permalink Structure and Naming
Permalinks are something that beginning bloggers and internet marketers may take for granted. When setting up a new WordPress site, one of the very first things you should do is establish your permalink structure. The permalink structure determines how your URLs are generated. This is not something you'll want to ignore, as you definitely do now want to have to go back and change this later. There are basically two recommended options here... /%postname%/ /%category%/%postname%/ A post name … [Read more...] about Get it Right the First Time: Permalink Structure and Naming
HUGE WPMU DEV Discount on AppSumo Right Now!
Right now AppSumo is offering 1 full year of WPMU DEV membership at a crazy discounted price of only $79! That's over $500 off of what a normal annual membership goes for, and $20 less than what you'd pay for a one month membership! In other words, it's a wildly insane deal. I first peeped this deal on AppSumo during their wave of Black Friday offerings last year. They had so many kick ass deals last November that I had to be a little choosy or I'd have had no money left for holiday gift … [Read more...] about HUGE WPMU DEV Discount on AppSumo Right Now!
Adding a Line Break or Bold Text in a WordPress Image Caption
Update: WordPress added basic html support for captions in WordPress 3.4, so...woohoo! The following tips are no longer relevant - provided you've upgraded to 3.4. Sometimes you may need additional control over how WordPress displays image captions. For example, say you want to have specific text on each line of a caption, rather than allowing WordPress to wrap the text how it wants to. Let's say you want the caption to show a description of the image, along with date and … [Read more...] about Adding a Line Break or Bold Text in a WordPress Image Caption
Only five more hours to save
...on the StudioPress All-Themes Package. At 5:00pm Central, this suite of 37 premium WordPress themes will be increasing from $249.95 to $299.95. Even at $299.95, the All-Theme package is an insane value, but if you can grab it up within the next five hours, why not..?! Fifty bucks is fifty bucks, right..?! If you're a WordPress developer or someone who manages multiple blogs, I highly recommend this package. The StudioPress themes are well coded, very attractive, user-friendly, and offer … [Read more...] about Only five more hours to save