The fix for “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error” in the Popularity Contest WordPress plug-in

One of the important things about having a blog is giving your users something to do ‘next’. After you get them to your page and they finish reading the post, where do you want to send them? Hopefully they will stay and read a little longer. How will they know what others find interesting? A lot of sites I have visited have a ‘popular post’ list in the sidebar.
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Popularity: 82% [?]

Adding correctly formatted code to your WordPress blog posts

When you have a website about template modifications, you will need to display code pretty effectively. Luckily with a few plug-ins WordPress handles this task very easily.

I quickly realized that Chili was the way to go to give some very nice highlighting of the code. After searching around for the best plug-in, I ran across prodevtips. What a find!
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Popularity: 22% [?]

More Great RSS Icons For Your Blog

In a prevoius post to ‘Whether you use Drupal, Joomla or WordPress this RSS icon is just plain cool!’ I ran across another great resource for RSS icons for any CMS. Head over to SEO & Web Design to check out these great looking icons.

Popularity: 12% [?]

Thesis Theme for WordPress – Urgent Security Fix

I ran across this very important update yesterday. If you use Thesis for WordPress I would suggesting updating as soon as possible.

Yesterday evening, I learned that Thesis had a security vulnerability on search results pages that could potentially give would-be hackers an entry point into your WordPress installation. Fortunately, the fix is extremely simple, and it’s available now on the Thesis downloads page.

For the record, all future Thesis theme downloads will include this vulnerability fix, so if you download the entire package after the time this article was posted, you won’t have to worry about instituting the fix yourself.

All versions of Thesis are affected by this security vulnerability.

Popularity: 12% [?]

How to get more Subscribers from Your WordPress Blog Posts

When starting a new site, one of the questions becomes

How do I get people visit? More importantly, How do I get people to visit often?

I did what every other Internet user would do, I searched. The best way I found to get more subscribers is to make it easy for people to sign-up.
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Popularity: 15% [?]