Upgrading to WordPress 2.7
By Derrick | December 30, 2008
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I’ve taken the plunge and upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.7. I tried it out on a couple of my niche blogs first, and it was pretty straight forward. A couple of plugins had to be upgraded as well, but this is simple (if a little time consuming).
WP 2.7 has a number of changes which I really like. For starters, you will be able to upgrade to the next version from within the admin panel. I have been using the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin for a couple of months now, and it’s made life a lot easier. But having the upgrade function built into WordPress should be an improvement.
Modules - many of the functions on the edit screens (like ‘Categories’, ‘Tags’ and ‘Custom Fields’) have been changed to modules, which you can move around as you like. You can also decide which ones to show, using the new ‘Screen options’ tab.
Quick Edit - this allows you to edit most of the meta data for a post or page (the title, author, tags etc) without having to load the full edit page. This functionality is based on the Manageable plugin by Aaron Harp (which I discovered a month ago!)
Comments - comments can now be paginated (split into multiple pages) and can be threaded (a commenter can reply to a specific comment in its own thread).
Built-in Plugin Browser - you can now search for and install plugins from within the admin panel.
There’s a complete list of the changes on the WordPress site.
Topics: Blogs | 4 Comments »
13 Ways To Increase Your Profits
By Derrick | December 7, 2008
Lee McIntyre has just released a terrific free report called “Profit 13 Ways: 13 Ways To Increase Your Profits Fast”.
Lee is based in the UK, and until 18 months ago was a high school teacher. He now makes a full-time living online, mainly by teaching others how to do what he did.
His 32-page free report lists 13 ways [...] Continue Reading…
Topics: General | 9 Comments »
Matt Cutts Explains Google
By Derrick | November 15, 2008
In this short video, Matt Cutts from Google explains how Google’s search results work. He gives some tips on controlling what Google displays for your website.
Thanks to Garry Conn for finding this, and Google’s recently released Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide. If you want to learn about SEO, you could do worse than reading what Google themselves have to [...] Continue Reading…
Topics: SEO | 10 Comments »
Invisible Websites
By Derrick | October 13, 2008
One of my current projects is a review site for a niche market - event companies in South Africa. It’s a tiny market in global terms, but there are a couple of hundred companies working in the industry. When business confidence starts to drop, the big corporates tend to spend more on advertising and events like product launches (at [...] Continue Reading…
Topics: General | 12 Comments »
What’s Up With eBay?
By Derrick | September 22, 2008
Earlier this year, eBay switched their affiliate program over from Commission Junction to an in-house program, eBay Partner Network. I had applied for the affiliate program when it was still with CJ, and got a ‘No thanks’ from them. ‘Aha!’ I thought. CJ was obviously the problem - eBay’s own program will be much more enlightened and forward-thinking.
As [...] Continue Reading…
Topics: Affiliate Marketing | 22 Comments »
Tricks of the Mind
By Derrick | September 8, 2008
BBC Entertainment has been running a couple of Derren Brown’s shows here in South Africa. Derren is a UK magician and “psychological illusionist” who specializes in getting people to do things they wouldn’t normally do through the use of “magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship”.
Much of what he does is based on suggestion and the power of subliminal persuasion. [...] Continue Reading…
Topics: Copywriting | 12 Comments »
Making Money As A ClickBank Affiliate
By Derrick | September 5, 2008
Photo: iStockphoto
If you’re just getting started with affiliate marketing, ClickBank is one of the best affiliate networks to sign up with. Their business model is quite different from that of the big networks like Commission Junction, which means that they can be much more relaxed about who they let in to their network.
The big affiliate networks make their money [...] Continue Reading…
Topics: Affiliate Marketing | 13 Comments »
PLRspecials
By Derrick | July 21, 2008
I have 2 great PLR ebooks on sale at PLRspecials.com this week. The first is a guide to getting traffic from Stumble Upon. The other one is called Massive Blog Traffic, and it lists 24 ways to get more traffic to your blog - just what I need!
Take a look - http://plrspecials.com
Topics: Products | 14 Comments »
WordPress2.6 Released
By Derrick | July 17, 2008
I’ve just updated this blog to WordPress 2.6, and I’ll be going through all my niche blogs as well. WordPress 2.6 introduces much better plug-in management. You can now delete unused plugins from within the WordPress admin panel, and you can select and activate multiple plugins at once. The last feature is probably the main reason I upgraded.
Although [...] Continue Reading…
Topics: Blogs, General | 12 Comments »
Is Brian Campbell Breaking The Rules?
By Derrick | June 29, 2008
Brian Campbell has created a new group on Facebook called P.R.I.S.M. - The Secret Social Media Alliance. You can read about it here: www.socialmediamarketingsystem.com/prism.html
That’s basically a sales letter aimed at getting people to join his group. Brian uses some startling images in that letter:
“There’s an elusive group of marketing elite secretly pooling their resources to collaborate against you [...] Continue Reading…
Topics: Copywriting, Social Media | 7 Comments »
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