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Vital Plugins For WordPress. With thousands of plugins out there, how do you pick? In fact, for many sites, you only need a few – here’s a list of ‘must-have’ plugins for your blog.

HeadSpace2 And WordPress 3.0 – Making Them Play Nice Together. If you use the powerful HeadSpace2 plugin for SEO on your blogs, you may have noticed a bit of a misstep with WordPress 3.0 – here’s how to solve it quickly …

If you’ve tried the new FireFox version out (3.6), then you may have noticed something new – personas, or skins, themes that change the look of your browser to match your style, mood, or for just whimsy.

As a WordPress user, we’re familiar with theming and changing our blog look, so this is no surprise.

However, as reported on WordPress.org, one surprise mashup has come about : a fellow named Chad Pugh has designed some WordPress-inspired Firefox personas, featuring the W and snazzy looks.

They are free, and you …

If you run a blog, you’ve got them – spam comments.

They are the comments like ‘like your blog’, or ‘bookmarked it’, or the more obvious ones with a quick comment before a page of links: ‘enjoyed your site (link to viagra) (link to porn) (link to cialis) (link to porn) etc’,

Your definition of spam comments may vary, but mine is very simple:

If they didn’t write something relevant to the blog post they commented on, it’s spam.

If I’m talking about a plugin, it doesn’t matter if they …

It’s WP update time, and I’m upgrading to 2.9.2 – not a huge hardship, since it’s all one-click now (unless there’s a plugin conflict, of course). However, a problem arose: one of my blog disappeared completely. Nada. Nothing. Just a nice white page, without anything whatsoever.

In the end, it was because of old wp-cache-config.php and advanced-cache.php files in my /wp-content/ directory. Briefly, these files caused a cache issue that was not needed on this blog. Remove them, and the blog was AOK.

The reason for mentioning this? I …

You know WordPress is great – easy to use, powerful, popular – but it’s still a long way from the idea to a finished, custom-tweaked site. So what do you do?

It’s always possible to save money by doing it yourself. There are many online tutorials, and sites that explain how to do WordPress setup and configuration (like this one). However, if your primary goal is to make money, it pays to stick to what you’re good at.

But if you prefer to get someone to set up your …