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WordPress

Why WordPress Is The Absolute Best Platform For Your Membership Site

January 28, 2010

NOTE: WordPress is right for you, only if you want to actually launch your membership site some day, make money from your site, and do not wish to spend an insane amount of time creating and maintaining it, and only if you do not wish to spend hundreds (or thousands) of dollars outsourcing the creation [...]

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DigitalAccessPass.com’s 1st Birthday

October 12, 2009

1 year ago, I launched a membership plugin for WordPress, called DigitalAccessPass (DAP).
It had some ground-breaking features – many firsts for its niche. Like “Content Dripping”, for example (I even coined a new word: ContentResponder .
Yesterday (October 11, 2009), DAP celebrated it’s 1st birthday!
Just some proof that with a lot of focus, hard work, [...]

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How To Check If Your Web Site Can Run PHP Scripts (or WordPress)

April 10, 2008

Create a file called phpinfo.php

Enter these few lines of code in it: (you can copy-paste from below):
<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Upload this to your root folder (where your home page (index.htm or index.html etc) lives.

Access this script via the browser like this:
http://www.YourSite.com/phpinfo.php

You should see a nice page come up, with the PHP logo and headers, that shows all [...]

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Blog-o-Phobia: Fear of Criticism

November 27, 2007

I recently asked a very close non-blogger, never-blogged-before friend to start his own blog on my new multi-blog site, YehHaiIndia.com (driven by WordPress Mu – very cool software).
His immediate response was:
The problem with blogging is you need ideas and thoughts you want to write.
And you are assuming I have thoughts that are worth writing [...]

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Podcasting With WordPress

August 26, 2007

The whole idea of podcasting is not to be just able to publish your audio files online, but to make your audio posts “subscribable” – i.e., your listeners should be able to set up their podcasting software (like iTunes) to subscribe to your feed, in which case the software (in this example, iTunes) will automatically [...]

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How To Use Blog-And-Bookmark To Send Your Traffic Through The Roof

July 11, 2007

You know what is Blog-And-Ping. Blog-And-Bookmark is quite similar.
You first blog about something (hopefully) interesting, then once your blog’s ping service has done its work on the back-end pinging all of the various web sites and your post is live, then you go to work as follows.
Use a one-to-many social bookmarking tool like AddMe.com or [...]

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Bad Words To Blacklist In Your Blog’s Comments

March 27, 2007

I was getting about 500+ spam-comments a day. I’m now down to about 20. Based on my personal experience with spam, I have created a list of “bad words”, which, when used as a blacklist, will make most of your spam go away.
If you’re using Wordpress, copy the list below and paste it into the [...]

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