Free Wordpress theme resources

As a follow-up to my post last week about using free CSS based templates to hack up your own great landing pages for affiliate offers, I got a few pings and emails from guys who prefer to use wordpress.
I’m also a big fan of wordpress as a platform - I’ve personally used it for everything [...]

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Follow up to Pulling Twitter Feeds

This is a follow-up post to my first one offering a method of displaying your Twitter feed either in wordpress or a static html page.
I got quite a few comments and questions asking how to make links in tweets clickable. After a bit of head scratching and searching around, I found that soccio.it has managed [...]

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Displaying code in Wordpress posts

Just written a post about displaying Twitter feeds on a web page, and had trouble along the way getting WP to display code in the post, in spite of < pre > and < code > tags. I found this little hack worked a treat!

Write your code in a text-editor like notepad, then copy it
Start [...]

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Pulling twitter feeds into Wordpress

Got a question today asking what plugin I used to pull my twitter feed so I thought I’d post the answer here in case anyone else wondered. There is no plugin as such - I just use the Twitter feed and style it up a bit. I also hacked the Twitter code about a bit [...]

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Wordpress SEO: a definitive guide

Looks like Joost de Valk has produced a mini bible for the effective SEO of your wordpress site. He’s posted a superb and definitive article giving a pretty much step by step to have your blog ranking to its organic potential. Extremely comprehensive but easily implemented steps for users of all levels.
Pay a visit and [...]

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Ten minute job - 4 hour frustration

Had an idea yesterday to knock up a couple of websites based around two different affiliate marketing programs, in my eternal quest for a passive income. I’m not producing sites in high volume, so the processes are not automated - even so, I’m so used to the processes I expect to get affiliate based sites [...]

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3things Goes live

I am proud to announce that my shiny new blog, 3things.be has finally gone live! After weeks and many late nights of hacking together a custom wordpress theme, it’s at last ready for the world.
Now I just have to find a: something interesting to write about, and b: find time to write it….
It will function [...]

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