Mother’s Day WordPress Theme Images
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This WordPress theme is in honor of mothers everywhere. Mothers often sacrifice much for their children, so this is my small way of saying thank you. Happy Mother’s Day Mother’s Day WordPress theme images were created with Carrara, Photoshop, and 3D-models from Daz 3D. The header and footer of this page will automatically rotate through…..

Parallel Downloads – Optimize Your Image Links
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Google recently announced that they will be using site speed as part of their search rankings. I have been meaning to look into my blog page speed for some time, and this event spurred me to finally get my ass in gear. I installed Google’s Page Speed application, and started testing my blog pages. One…..

the_content Filter –
Optimizing Your WordPress Plugins
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One of the core strengths of WordPress is the availability of many free plugins that allow you to easily and cheaply extend what your blog can do. However, the price paid for these plugins is in the additional overhead they place on your blog. A high page load time will adversely affect your blog traffic…..

WordPress Permalink – How to Add Your Own Permalink Structures
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A permalink or permanent link is a way for WordPress blogs to simulate static URL addresses. Since all blog data is stored in a database, and content is generated dynamically, blogs do not have static urls in the way that traditional websites do. However, static URL addresses are still very desirable. They allow external sites…..

Related Blog Articles – Why and How
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Why add a related articles section to your blog? If your readers like what they have just read, it gives them an easy way to navigate to other articles they may like. At the same time, it gives you more page-views, longer visits, and may even get you repeat visitors. 1. How to Add a…..

WordPress Custom Backgrounds 1.1
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The Shiba Custom Background Plugin lets you customize virtually any WordPress theme by adding in your own background images and colors right from your WordPress Dashboard. You may create as many backgrounds as you want, and assign them to posts, categories, or to your entire blog. This blog post, for example, uses the Custom Background…..

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