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Editing The Number Of Words For The Excerpt

WordPress Tutorial -
Some people might think it is the number of lines you have to define to edit how long or short your excerpt in your WordPress article. It is not. It is defined by how many words. WordPress by default picks the first 55 words as your excerpt. However, if you wish to edit [...]

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WP Addict is open!

Yep! Another WordPress related site. I bet you are either:
1. Rolling your eyes because you think you have seen or read it all.
2. Excited to see another WordPres-related site
3. Neither here, nor there, but you are interested.
Hopefully WPAddict will answer anything you need. If you cannot find it here, perhaps try the WordPress support forums. [...]

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Are Splash Pages Necessary?

Are splash pages really necessary? Well, first off, in order to make a valid case, what is a splash page? A splash page is a website’s entrance page. The splash page contains words or images to briefly convey the mood of the site, like a first impression or like in a business, a calling card. [...]

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Web Elite Snobbery: Why It May Hurt You in Social Media

The “web elite snobbery” is really a loose term. When I mean web elite, I mean the following:
1. Those who have high standards when viewing websites and eagerly badmouth those who do not meet them
2. Those who have no idea that the Internet exists beyond their circle and this limits their topics
3. Those who profess [...]

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Facebook Feed Changes, Eliciting Negative Feedback

Recently Facebook rolled out their new feeds, yep, feeds as in more than 1. One is the Live Feed which is somewhat like the old stream except you are informed of your friends following others and what they became a friend of. The other is the News Feed that publishes popular posts, at least for [...]

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PRESS RELEASE: Fan History is Breaking Wiki Size Barriers

In May 2009, Fan History became the biggest MediaWiki-based wiki that is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.
Sleepy Hollow, Illinois – If you are looking for information about fans and all the activities they engage in, you need to check out Fan History Wiki located at http://www.fanhistory.com/ . In May 2009, in trying to become [...]

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Michael Jackson

I was — I am – a child of the ’80s. It’s a label and designation I embrace with a certain pride and a lot of fondness for the arts and culture of the decade, no matter what later generations have to say about it and how much it may be looked at as “cheesy” [...]

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SEO advice: Commenting on blogs

This topic came up on site-reference.com and it is a common topic for people looking to improve SEO. It is important to know about because if you’re running a fansite or fan fiction archive and wanting to learn SEO through link building, this method is probably one of the first one’s you’ll see.
Commenting on blogs [...]

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Pictures from Chicago’s Pride Parade

Disclaimer: This has very little to do with fandom or marketing issues that might be of interest to fans.
Yesterday, I attended Chicago’s Pride Parade with a friend. He invited me to attend because Lisa Madigan had invited people to walk in the parade on her Fcebook fanpage. The invite said bring a friend. [...]

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Using Twilight to promote another fandom?

This morning I received an interesting email from one of the fan groups for Fiction Plane, an alt/rock-group which has been around for a number of years of which I am a moderate follower. Fiction Plane opened for The Police on the first half of their world tour in 2007-2008, perhaps not unsurprising given one [...]