WordPress 3.0 for Internet Marketers

Was WP 3.0 really created with Internet Marketers in mind? I doubt it. However, this version 3.0 has quite a number of new features that can be very useful in your marketing efforts.

Seemingly, WordPress is already the CMS of choice for most of the internet marketing people. Marketers find it easy to use, easy to install and modify. Blogs with their constantly updated content are quickly indexed by the search engines, so almost everybody in this industry has a blog or two. Or hundreds…

This is where WordPress 3.0 comes in the picture. The revolutionary change in this version was the merge between the “simple” WordPress script (used for one
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A day when everything goes wrong…

It seems there are days when we just should stay away from the internet and computers.

You wake up early morning and with the first coffee you go downstairs in the basement and fire up the computers to check email. You notice one labeled “paypal” and you start smiling: it must be a sale. No, it isn’t. It’s a notification that you paid $517 for a yearly license for a script that you don’t want to use and wanted to cancel after the free gift period. Yes, today is the day but you were charged at 3:22am. Not good…

OK, there is a phone number for the company in the notification email, so you call it. No luck: it’s a message from a
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HTML Template into WordPress

It is well-known that all WordPress themes are built using PHP files. Actually, the whole WordPress engine – blogging software – is built on PHP. This post is not really about the difference between HTML and PHP files, and just for editing or manipulating your theme files (the templates as they are called in the WP terminology) you don’t need any specific PHP knowledge. I will talk about how to convert an ordinary HTML template into something usable in your WordPress theme.

The basic structure of any template file is just classic pure
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Video for Widget Magic

I thought you would like to see a short video how I do the steps described in the Widget Magic tutorial.

The size in this blog is not
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Widget Magic – Widgetize anything in your WordPress theme!

The Widget Magic is out: I published a great guide teaching how you can add widgets anywhere and everywhere in your WordPress theme.

If you are a blogger most likely you are familiar with the most popular blogging tool, WordPress (WP) and its feature called widgets. In the unlikely case that you never heard about widgets, in WP they are small blocks of information that can be placed – usually – in the sidebar by drag’n'drop. If you look at the right, on the sidebar of this blog the group of links (My websites) or the group of square ads – are put there by widgets.

Everybody loves widgets because you don’t have to edit your
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