In this post I’m going to share with you my secret blog­ging weapon. I have spent the last 2–3 years using a com­puter almost non­stop.  After start­ing up Enlight­ened Web­Mas­tery, as well as con­tin­u­ing my  free­lance work, I have (on sev­eral occa­sions) spent 20+ hours at a com­puter a day. Obvi­ously this is not good.

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In this arti­cle I’m going to show you how to make your web­site iPod touch or iPhone friendly. By default, your site may look pretty good already, but I think you will agree, this plu­gin makes your site much more acces­si­ble for the mobile crowd.

It also pro­vides (I think) a more iPhone friendly expe­ri­ence. The beauty with this approach is, you do NOT need to re-code a theme, or do any pro­gram­ming of any sort.  All you have to do is install the plu­gin, acti­vate it, and your gold.

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One of the worst things that can pos­si­bly hap­pen to you when you are blog­ging is to loose your data. Out of every­thing you could choose to backup, the one ele­ment that is the most impor­tant is back­ing up your data­base. A lot of peo­ple do not do this, they rely on their host­ing provider, or might backup once every 3–6 months when they upgrade to the lat­est ver­sion of word­press (and many do not backup prior to that!). I

In this arti­cle, my goal is to get you to start back­ing up your Word­Press Data­base. This is going to be as sim­ple as pos­si­ble; we will be using a plu­gin that will make this so easy, and so auto­matic.  It is one of those set it and for­get it type things.

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In this arti­cle I’m going to show you the best ways to embed YouTube Videos.  This is a more advanced approach, and shows you how to go about embed­ding videos the best way.

After you com­plete this arti­cle, you will know how to embed High Def­i­n­i­tion Videos, High Qual­ity Videos, Auto­play Videos, Remove Search, and Remove Related Videos.  You will also learn how to see if a video has a HQ or HD option.

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In this arti­cle and video I’m going to show you how to take advan­tage of Word­Press 2.7’s enhanced func­tion­al­ity, and auto­mat­i­cally install plu­g­ins for your WordPress.org web­site. I also cre­ated a Video Tuto­r­ial that shows you how to Install your Plu­g­ins from the dashboard.

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