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November 2007

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When a blogging slump hits…

What do you do when you hit a blogging dry spell? Have you ever felt like you just didn’t have any good ideas for posts anymore… what was once a deep well of creativity has run dry? I’ve been feeling a bit like that lately. I knew it would happen. It [...]

The Best Contact Form Plugin for WordPress

Recently while working on a client site, I needed a contact form plugin that went beyond the very good, commonly used Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form. We needed something with the flexibility to add custom fields, etc. I found a most excellent solution in cformsII. This plugin is the ultimate form generator, [...]

Show and Tell

I’ve been extremely busy for the last several months, working on many blog headers and custom themes. I haven’t had time to update my portfolio, but I thought I’d show off several of the sites I’ve worked on, and encourage you to pay them a visit – they’re all very interesting sites.

A Basic Guide to WordPress Template Tags

Recently a reader asked how to add the time of a post to a theme, so I thought I would give a basic overview of WordPress template tags. This is one of those things that seems like it must be really complicated, but actually isn’t.
What is a template tag? Template tags are used [...]

Are You a Link Whore?

Since the whole I Follow Movement thing last spring, there have been lists of blogs published with titles like “10 High PR I Follow Blogs” encouraging readers to visit and comment, and “be sure it doesn’t look too spammy or it might get deleted.” Now that page rank has been updated, there are new [...]

Online Treasure Hunt

Performancing is celebrating their 2 year anniversary with an online treasure hunt! There are some great prizes to be had:

1 hour free consultation with Chris Garrett (value $150)
Free custom logo from Randa Clay (value $350)
1-year free Professional MegaEdition subscription to PMetrics (value $99)
Professional linkbait service – 1 linkbait plus promotion (value $2,000)
Blog Reboot – [...]

SmartLinks Plugin and Widget: a Review

There’s a cool new plugin out that automatically gives your readers extra information about some of the items you link to. It’s called SmartLinks, and basically what it does is analyze the links in your posts and brings contextually correct information directly to the blog. When the reader clicks on the little blue square next [...]