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4 WordPress Alternatives: the What, Where, and Why

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As bloggers, we’re all familiar with WordPress, whether as a self-hosted setup, or via WordPress.com. If you do a Google search for “ blogging software ,” WordPress will likely be among the first results you’ll see. concerned WordPress is not meeting your needs. This guest post is by Matt Setter of MatthewSetter.com.

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How to Build Community for Niche Site Success

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But then again, I never expected the little website I created to keep friends and family informed about Jerry’s progress to become the largest online community for canine amputees and their people either. Forums create discussion. The network creates community.

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Tactical Tips for Building an Online Community

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With all the wonderful feedback on my guest post about how we utilize WordPress multisite and discussion forums to build community for our rather niche market, I thought I might offer some detail about specific tactics and network plugins we use to keep members informed, active and increasing in number.

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How to Troubleshoot WordPress

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This guest post was written by Neil Matthews, a WordPress consultant at WPDude. Over the years, I’ve developed a troubleshooting methodology while working with my WordPress technical support clients. I like to divide WordPress into four layers: plugins. WordPress core. many other WordPress problems, too.

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Awesome WordPress Plugins to Empower Your Visitors

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This guest post is by Jeff Starr, co-author of the book Digging into WordPress. This may sound like a tall order, but if you’re using WordPress, improving your site couldn’t be easier. Let’s look at some awesome WordPress plugins to make it happen. only searches your current WordPress installation.

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Secure Your WordPress Blog Without Touching Any Code

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Right now WordPress powers 48 of the top 100 blogs online. More than that, WordPress actually powers 19% of the web as a whole. Such a strong community of users and developers means that the platform is sure to evolve even further and provide us with lots of cool features that are yet to be developed. Essentially, this is great.

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Client solves Ecommerce for WordPress via Open Source

The Way of the Web

I don’t often write about clients on my blog for various reasons, but I wanted to spread the word about Jigoshop, which is a great Ecommerce for WordPress solution that I’ve been working on for a couple of months now. And there’s a growing forum community on the site which is worth checking out.