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    Best Themes Yet for Wordpress

    In the hot field of themes for Wordpress, there are two leading contenders – DIYThemes with Thesis and Solostream with a variety of themes. Their approaches are night and day, appealing to an individual sense of style and level of coding expertise.

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    AddMarx: A New Way to Share

    Having a clear and easy way for blog visitors to share and email blog posts is essential. The field of outfits that offer such a feature for Wordpress blogs is led by ShareThis. But, a new plugin – AddMarx – has added flexibility and features that I find even more useful.
    For example, AddMarx lets you [...]

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    Solostream Makes Vybe Even Better

    Solosteam – the Wordpress theme design company – has unveiled an updated version of its WP-Vybe theme, one of my favorite themes. I have had the WP-Vybe at BoomerCafe.com and DavidHenderson.com, among other blogs, for several years, and have recommended it highly to many people. It’s a Wordpress theme that always draws praise.
    Solostream’s new WP-Vybe [...]

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    Hosting: More of a Challenge

    Web hosting services for either Web sites or self-hosted blogs, such as Wordpress, have created significant cost-savings for users but also problems. With the downright cheap cost of site hosting plans, people are not only creating more blogs – which is good – but using the online hosting services to backup their computers and gigabytes [...]

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Register Your Name

I cannot tell you the number of people I know who decide to have a blog in support their career, projects or something new, like writing a book or gaining celebrity status, only to discover that their own name as a domain main is not available. Happens all the time, especially to authors, journalists, politicians, [...]

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Special Offer – New WP-CLEAR Theme

Solostream – a theme developer for Wordpress that I use – is introducing its latest, magazine-style theme for Wordpress – WP-CLEAR – with a limited-time special offer through BlogStrategies.net. Details below.
Let me just note that I do not benefit financially from this special offer but I do endorse Solostream themes for Wordpress.
Open and airy in its [...]

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27.9 Million Blogs in U.S. … and Growing

eMarketer.com reports some dramatic statistics about the popularity of blogging among Internet users in the U.S. – There are an estimated 27.9 million bloggers online now, and the number is increasing steadily. By 2013, there may be 37.6 million bloggers:
If yesterday’s blogs were about personal expression, today’s are about two-way conversations that take place on [...]

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10 Tricks to Make Wordpress Standout

Alex Demming has written an interesting post on the blog, CatsWhoCode.com, that I wanted to excerpt and link to it here. You might find something of merit. He writes:
The problem: there are so many WordPress themes out there these days that it is hard to get noticed and stand out from the crowd.
The solution: create [...]

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If You Were to Change Blog Platforms, Which Would You Use?