In this train­ing, you’re going to learn how to upgrade to the lat­est ver­sion of Word­Press by fol­low­ing 3 quick and easy steps.  The entire process should take between 5 and 10 min­utes max.

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In this train­ing, you’re going to learn how to stop spam­bots cold.  This will also serve as a great first step in lock­ing down your blog while pre­vent­ing auto­mated attacks, DOS attacks, increased band­width and avoid high CPU uti­liza­tion (thus sav­ing you money, and poten­tial downtime).

This entire process will take less than 60 sec­onds to imple­ment, and will save you so much time and heartache (deal­ing with spam­bots, spam email, and poten­tial cut-offs with your host­ing provider, etc).

Read the arti­cle and watch the video, fol­low the steps, imple­ment it, and make sure to leave me a com­ment below with your thoughts and feedback.

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In this quick tips work­flow arti­cle, you’re going to learn how to auto­mat­i­cally upgrade your word­press plu­g­ins and why. Thanks to Word­Press 2.7 and recent updates and enhance­ments, Word­Press offers the abil­ity to “Upgrade Auto­mat­i­cally” both your plu­g­ins and your Word­Press Install.

Read the arti­cle, or  scroll down and watch the video, do the steps, and when fin­ished make sure to leave a com­ment below with your feed­back and suggestions.

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Want to give your read­ers another way to absorb your con­tent?  I encour­age you to check­out this arti­cle.  I’ll be cov­er­ing how to prop­erly setup and use Odiogo’s text to speech plu­gin for Word­Press.  By the end of the arti­cle you will have this func­tion­al­ity setup and added to your blog for free.

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Learn how to fos­ter a com­mu­nity and give your read­ers a rea­son to com­ment on your blog.  In this arti­cle I’m going to show­case the Sub­scribe To Com­ments Plu­gin by Mark Jacquith, that I think is one of the most impor­tant plu­g­ins you should have run­ning on your blog.

This plu­gin should always be one of the first plu­g­ins you install when you setup your blog.

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