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How to Upgrade WordPress Easily

April 3, 2008

We’ve just added two new sections to our Support Forums called WordPress Plugins and WordPress Tips, where we’ll start posting more of these type tips and hope you’ll do the same for others.

If you’ve never upgraded your version of WordPress, it can be a tad scary the first time …. but with the new Automatic WordPress Upgrade Plugin, it’s super easy and fast.

All you have to do is download the plugin, extract it, then upload it to your plugins folder on your WordPress installation. Then activate the plugin and follow the instructions.

If you haven’t already upgraded to WordPress 2.5, it’s well worth the upgrade for the incredible new Dashboard interface alone!

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Hide Your Affiliate Links with This Plugin

February 22, 2008

If you’re an iThemes affiliate, or another site, and want to hide the long affiliate link, check out the GoCodes plugin.

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3 Ways to Use WordPress Pages More Effectively

January 6, 2008

One of the often overlooked features of WordPress is its Pages.

If you’ve used WordPress for very long, you probably know that Pages are different than Posts. Pages are for more static content and outside the typical chronological display of Posts.

[To Write a Page … go to the WP Dashboard, click on Write, then Write Page.]

I thought I’d mention some ideas for using WordPress Pages effectively and also how I’ve used them …

Here are three ways you can leverage WordPress Pages effectively: Read more

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