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WordPress Membership Sites, WishList and Micro-Continuity

September 22, 2009

I’ve been building WordPress Membership Sites using WishList Member for about 9 months now but the concept of micro-continuity is one of the more intriguing concepts I’ve run across for membership site models. If you aren’t already familiar with the concept of Micro-Continuity I’d encourage you to watch the video explanation of micro-continuity and a [...]

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Using Custom Fields in WordPress

August 26, 2009

Custom Fields have a ton of uses and can be a great way for a theme designer to augment the functionality of a theme. Unfortunately, custom fields can feel a little intimidating to “non-techies” and those new to WordPress. The following video provides a simple explanation of what custom fields are, how they work, and [...]

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SEO, Your URL and Domain Name

August 22, 2009

I love domain names. Admittedly I’m a bit of a domain addict and frequently grab domains names I like for ideas I get “just in case”. It used to be easy to come up with great domain names but as more and more people and businesses have gotten into the game it’s become increasingly competitive [...]

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Page Navigation in WordPress – Using Sort Order

July 28, 2009

The following video provides an explanation on how to use sort order so that you get a scalable and organized approach to managing your navigation in WordPress. While geared at WordPress sites, this approach should work for any content management system that provides an automated or semi-automated way of creating navigation. This tutorial assumes that [...]

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WishList Live 2009 Conference

April 5, 2009

Update Nov 25, 2009: Online Training Now available from WishList Products. Registration closes Dec 1. Get more info here: WishList Training Diving into the world of online marketing can be daunting without proper guidance, a few good mentors and a clear goal in mind. The volume of so-called online marketing guru’s who’s only purpose seems [...]

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Using WordPress As a Membership Site – Plugin Reviews

February 4, 2009

Update: Some of these plugins have been updated since I wrote this but WishList is still at the top of my list. However, I’ll be revising this review before too long to update the others. If you have an interest in starting a membership based website and don’t know where to begin the options can [...]

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Conversion to WordPress

May 27, 2008

As you can see, over the Memorial Day weekend, I finally managed to get my website converted to WordPress. Other than the content (all the old stuff is still here) everything has changed and I welcome your feedback. Despite the fact that it took a while the process was really relatively easy, thanks largely to [...]

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