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Improve Your Wordpress Blog Theme – Finding Free Themes and Installing Them

January 18th, 2010

I’ve had a few clients recently ask me to setup a blogging system. I nearly always recommend Wordpress because it is one of the most common and powerful blogging systems available and is free to download and use. Setting up the blog is straightforward if you know how to FTP and create a MySQL database on your web hosting account. Once setup it is ready to go, you can start blogging right away.

The only issue in my mind is the blog design. The default design is quite bland and probably very common, yet there are thousands of free designs available that are far more professional and just look much better, so why not change it? This blog describes how to obtain and install a new theme.

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Automatically Post RSS Feeds (Blogs, News) to Twitter and Facebook Using Twitter Feed

January 17th, 2010

Having a busy schedule means I find it hard to update Twitter often so I am always looking at ways to help. Although it is recommended to write and post the tweets yourself to provide a human interaction, there are a number of automated tweeting systems that can compliment your usual tweeting schedule and make life easier. One such system is Twitter Feed.

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Author: Laurence Cope Categories: Blogging, RSS, Twitter Tags: , ,

Blog to Your Wordpress Blog from Your iPhone

May 25th, 2009

I’m always looking for great iPhone apps that can help with my interests such as work and social media. Today I found what may end up being one of my favourites, a Wordpress app for the iPhone.
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Author: Laurence Cope Categories: Blogging Tags: ,