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Just ran across this post about the 7 must-have plugins available for Wordpress. The first featured plugin is the All In One SEO Pack - which is a needed plugin if you want to have more flexiblity in optimizing your blog for search engines.
Check out Tubetorials Video about the All In One SEO Pack:

I thought [...]

I’ve been doing some webmaster maintenance - backups, software upgrades, etc. and ran into a Wordpress install that had over 20,000 comments sitting in moderation. Ooops.
Unfortunately, Wordpress provides no simple way of cleaning up huge amounts of comments. Mass edit mode is limited to the number of entries that can be deleted at once. Mass [...]

Just stumbled upon this nice video tutorial for setting up Wordpress on a DreamHost server:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ABioDz0Gw8[/youtube]
The tutorial by Tech Mindset is thorough and made with the novice user in mind.
The author also has a blog post about setting up Wordpress that should answer any questions not covered in the video.

Did you try to view your website but all you get is this following error message?
Site Temporarily Unavailable
We apologize for the inconvenience. Please contact the webmaster/ tech support immediately to have them rectify this.
error id: “bad_httpd_conf“
Don’t panic.
This post will explain what a “bad_httpd_conf” means, and how to fix the problem.
While your gut reaction may be [...]

Dreamhost now supports an easy maintenance cron job panel. You no longer have to SSH into your account to setup cronjobs! This feature has been something I have been wanting for a long time since Cpanel has a similar feature. Now you can setup and manage cron jobs all from your [...]

This tutorial shows you how to download, edit, FTP upload and install the phpBB2 module for Pligg. This tutorial does not however instruct you how to install phpbb, that tutorial will come at a later date. This tutorial is for those of you who already have phpbb installed and wish to integrate your users [...]

This video tutorial teaches you how to install Zen Cart in under 10 minutes. Zen Cart is a commerce package that lets you sell items on your site with minimal hassle. I haven’t had much experience with it in the past, but from the short amount of time that I’ve spent playing around [...]

Did you know that you can submit suggestions to DreamHost? Not only can you submit your own suggestions, but you can vote for or against other people suggestions using the Dreamhost web panel’s Suggestions area. This area is probably one of the most overlooked parts of the web panel, but it is a [...]

You can now download a flash (swf) movie tutorial teaching you how to use the RSS Importer that comes with Pligg Beta 9. The RSS Importer is a great way to build up some stories in your site’s database to fill in some empty space early on. Let me know if you find any major [...]

Flash video tutorial teaching you how to download, install and setup a new server account in FileZilla. FileZilla is an open source (free) FTP program that lets you connect to a server via FTP and download/upload files. This tutorial teaches you the very first step in creating a server account so that you [...]


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