Several weeks ago… I started on my own little coding project of a plugin. NOTHING at all to do with BANS, but instead, a way to help your fellow blog readers get the most from your topic! As many of you know, the Top 100 MMO blogs at 45n5.com is a GREAT resource to be listed on! I have been as low as 250 and as high as 72 at one point… but still struggling to get higher! Since entering the top 100, I get at least 35-50 visitors from it every day!
If …

Just in time for your Holiday Niche Store Building…
FREE BANS WordPress Theme pack!
The ChristmasDays WordPress themeby Design Disease is a widget-ready, 2 column theme with a nifty little countdown script in the headers section, showing the days left until xMas!
If you have a blog and site that deals with holiday gifts, or can easily be geared toward the holiday season, you should be starting your promotion of the site NOW to be ready in time!
To see this theme in action, click over to the Design Disease theme preview here. The …

I have spent most of the day today in a hospital with Kim… she had to have a bit of emergency surgery, and had her Gallbladder removed. Most of this post was written in the waiting room…
Yesterday, I wrote a review of the newest plugin for wordpress, WPBans. I can see by the feedback, I was not the only person who felt it fell short of expectations… at least from the perspective of the more desirable advanced features.
The one thing I think we can ALL agree on however is that …

A Plugin for BANS and WordPress? Yes, something we have all expressed interest in has finally been completed! On Weds, I got an email from the developer, Casey at WPBans, letting me know that Kelvin had recommended he get in touch to check out the new tool in our arsenal of BANS products!
To say the least, I was excited about finally having a way to seamlessly integrate BANS and WordPress, without the headaches of merging BANS WordPress templates, multiple applications etc. Unfortunately, My excitement was short lived!

Its only been a little over a month since the last toolbar PR update from Google, but guess what… it’s started again!
I have been watching several of my own sites fluctuate up and down over the past few hours.
Check yours!
Mark

Many of you saw this post over the weekend, only to be led to a 404 page! :-) I wanted is saved for Friday to give you a fun place to experiment with over the weekend. Without further ado… Lets look how we can use Popshops with WordPress to create full product pages!
What is PopShops?
Imagine if you could combine all of your affiliate networks into one place! CJ, Google Ad network, LinkShare etc, and from ALL of those networks, build product pages with a mashup of items from each! With …

So… last night, myself and couple friends got together for Poker Night…  Poker night is nothing more than a night of drinking and talking about current events etc. Well, for some reason, we decided to kill a bottle of Crown Royal last night in light of the George Bush news conference! Poker led to another game, Monopoly, to see who could bust the bank first by borrowing the most money and then foreclosing on all their properties. Whether it was the bottle of crown or the irresponsible lending practices we set for the bank, …

Let me start this post with a friendly message of warning – DO NOT install plugins just because someone else uses them! As I said last week when I wrote about How to Install a WordPress Plugin, you are going to find thousands of plugins and likely more than enough lists of the plugins people use on their own sites. Every site is different and will have different needs for the visitors. Only install a plugins you need… save yourself some headaches!

In yesterdays post, we looked at Building WordPress Categories that make Sense to our visitors, in order to get them to the targeted information they were seeking, in the shortest amount of time and fewest clicks of the mouse. Today, we are going to write our very first post! Since there is already a generic post written for us during the Installation of WordPress, we are going to use that post as the baseline for our own.

Throughout last week as we continued our focus on How to Build a Website with WordPress, we have covered the basics of several key areas. From installing WordPress to adding your first plugin, and most currently, adding your first page to WordPress, I am trying to go very slow and methodical through the series in order to allow everyone time to understand the basics, before we get into the fun stuff! I want to thank everyone for participating and adding your own experiences and tips along the way! Today, I …