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WordPress One Minute Podcast Ep 11: All in one SEO

Tris Hussey — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:53:51 +0000

As a follow up to yesterday’s podcast, today I tell you about another of my favourite plugins: All in one SEO pack. It’s pretty simple to use, just install and then give your homepage a special title and description. After that, you’re off to the races!

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WordPress One Minute Podcast Ep 10: WP to Twitter

Tris Hussey — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:18:06 +0000

If you’re on Twitter like I am and have blogs on WordPress as clearly I do, you might want to send your posts into your Twitter stream. Today I give you two ways to do it the service TwitterFeed and the WP plugin WordTwit. I use both for different applications, TwitterFeed publishes periodically and WordTwit publishes instantly. Your choice…

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WordPress One Minute Podcast Ep 9: Upgrading Plugins

Tris Hussey — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:11:49 +0000

One of the coolest and best features of WordPress now is that you can upgrade existing plugins and upload new plugins right from with in the admin panels. There is one hitch, however, is that you still need your FTP information that your web host gave to you to make the uploads work. Today I tell you all about that, in just a minute.

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WordPress One Minute Podcast Ep8: Pretty Permalinks

Tris Hussey — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:41:25 +0000

Yesterday I talked about checking out your cpanel’s file manager, so today is part two getting some pretty permalinks. The key here is editing your .htaccess file. If you don’t edit your htaccess after you switch the permalinks, your blog will get pretty wonky.

By the way, if you can now subscribe to this podcast on iTunes or just regular RSS.

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WordPress One Minute Podcast Ep 7: cpanel file manager

Tris Hussey — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:32:42 +0000

I’m setting the stage for tomorrow’s episode by introducing you to your cpanel file manager. It might seem geeky, but it’s oh so important.

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WordPress One Minute Podcast Episode 6: Sidebar Widgets

Tris Hussey — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:26:06 +0000

Today I talk about sidebar widgets. I ran a few seconds over a min. I hope you’ll forgive me.

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WordPress One Minute Podcast Episode 5: Press this bookmarklet

Tris Hussey — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:08:56 +0000

While I prefer and recommend an offline editor for writing posts, I started blogging using the “Blog this” button on the Google toolbar. WordPress doesn’t have a button, but a bookmarklet called “Press this” and it’s a good way to blog faster and easier.

[podcast]http://blogm2o.com/wp-content/uploads/WordPressMinEp5.mp3[/podcast]

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WordPress One Minute Podcast Episode 4: WP.com vs WP.org

Tris Hussey — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:23:57 +0000

Confused by WordPress.com and WordPress.org? So are a lot of people, but fear not I’ve explained it in just about one minute!

[podcast]http://blogm2o.com/wp-content/uploads/WordPressMinEp4.mp3[/podcast]

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WordPress One Minute Podcast Episode 3: Turbo-charge the admin panels

Tris Hussey — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:27:08 +0000

I’m back today, after my two-day moving extravaganza, with another WordPress One Minute Podcast. Today is how to turbo-charge the WP admin panels using Google Gears.

You do need Google Gears installed before you start and you can download Gears from Google.

[podcast]http://blogm2o.com/wp-content/uploads/WordPressMinEp3.mp3[/podcast]

I hope you’re enjoying these podcasts, if you have more tips, and I know all of you do, leave them in the comments.

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WordPress One Minute Tip Episode 2: Disable the default admin account

Tris Hussey — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:44:27 +0000

Today’s tip is simple and will make your blog more secure: disable the default admin account. All it takes is a minute for me to tell you and minute for you to do.

Music from Derek Miller, of course.

[podcast]http://blogm2o.com/wp-content/uploads/WordPressMinEp2.mp3[/podcast]

I’d love to hear your one minute tips. Leave a comment or zap me a line @ tris[shift-2]medi2o.com. Of course following me on Twitter is good too…

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