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10 Easy Ways to Secure your WordPress Blog
Securing your blog is important. With WordPress so popular these days, it's becoming a bigger and bigger target for hackers. In this post we'll look at ten easy ways to secure your WordPress blog.
10 tricks to make your WordPress theme stand out
There are a ton of WordPress themes out there these days, so it can be hard to get your theme noticed. The solution? Use the ten tricks listed in this post to make your theme stand out from the crowd.
8 Amazing jQuery Accordions
You can never underestimate how useful an accordion can be - use them for menus, featured content slideshows, squeezing more content into your sidebar; the list goes on! Making your life easier, I've put together a list of eight brilliant jQuery accordions that you could use on your site.
Easily improve your blog posts with high quality images (part 2)
In Part 1, we looked at adding captions to your posts using an image editor, such as Photoshop. This method can produce great results, but in the comments John said something that would work better would be to do this via CSS.
Easily improve your blog posts with high quality images
They say that images are a thousand words, so are images with words even more valuable? Yep! Even better for you, its easy to make them look very stylish and professional! In this post, I'm going to walk you through adding text to your images to get a very professional look.
Make Full Use of Wordpress with the_excerpt_reloaded!
Whether you know it or not, you'll probably use the_excerpt on your website. At its simplest, the_excerpt will display the last 70 odd words from your posts on the homepage, or a couple of words explaining what the post is about, as it is on CatsWhoCode. But say you wanted to display 200 words and images. Without editing the core Wordpress files, there is no way you can do that, without installing a plugin, like the_excerpt_reloaded.
My name is Jean-Baptiste Jung and I'm the man behind Cats Who Code. I started to use the Internet back in 1998 and started to create websites three years laters in 2001.
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