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WordPress Plugin Review: WordPress Audio Player

I had been looking for a decent player for a client’s website and tried quite a few until I came across WordPress Audio Player. The plugin was developed by Martin Laine It is currently on version 2.0 beta 6. The plugin WILL work in WordPress 2.8.6.
To install, you can simply look up ‘WordPress Audio Player’ [...]

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Edit This Entry Template Tag

WordPress Tutorial:
The ‘edit this entry’ template tag, or edit_post_link gives the blog owner and any other users with editing privileges to have a quick link to click on that will allow the user to edit an article. Users who do not have this capability, like your readers who are not registered members will not be [...]

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Fan Fiction’s Predictive Value for Nielsen Ratings

On January 15, 2009, CSI had one of its highest rated episodes all season. On that day, people published 26 new pieces of fan fiction, the most stories posted on the same day as an episode had aired. On September 25, 2008, CSI had it third lowest ratings day all season and people posted [...]

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Review: Strange Things Happen by Stewart Copeland

Strange Things Happen: A Life with The Police, Polo and Pygmies by Stewart Copeland hits bookstores today, September 29.
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I feel a little bit like pulling a Jedi Mind Trick here to start off this review. Or that perhaps Stewart Copeland has pulled one over on all of us readers, or that he should [...]

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Gaming the Twitter system… or how not to market on Twitter

There are ways to market yourself on Twitter and to market your brand. My preference as a user of Twitter is if I mention a brand, they comment at me. I don’t necessarily want them to follow me with me following them in return. My comment is probably a one off and I likely won’t [...]

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Wiki adminning: Different strategies to deal with conflicts

We’ve been busy watching our recent changes on Fan History. An incident recently came up and we had a fair amount of behind the scenes discussion on how to handle it. After exploring our possible actions, we analyzed where our desires to take these actions came from. They can best be summarized as follows:
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What’s new with The Police?

It’s now a little over a year since the end of The Police’s highly successful 2007-2008 Reunion Tour. So what are they all up to now? It’s interesting to see how the three members of the band have (or haven’t?) been keeping busy since then, perhaps using the tour as a launching pad for new [...]

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yourwiki.net

I love irc. I love irc.freenode.net. There are a number of wiki related chat rooms on there and a month or so ago, an acquaintence introduced me to yourwiki.net. It is a wiki hosting company that is run by a couple of friends. At the moment, they are pretty small and [...]

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Wealth of WordPress Knowledge – The Support Forums

There are quite a few sites dedicated to extending a helping hand. Some for free, some for a fee.
However, do not forget about the WordPress Support forums! It is a forum that is full of many people who regularly answer any questions that come up, even myself. If you have not signed up there, you [...]

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How to Change The Default Avatar

WordPress Tutorial
Sometimes that default Gravatar with the gray and white seems boring. Lucky for you, instead of altering internal WordPres files, you can harness the power of adding a filter to your theme’s functions.php to change your default image to display.
1. Open your template’s functions.php
2. Insert the following code:

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