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Secure your WordPress Blog with 10 easy steps
SECURITY Securing your blog is important. With WordPress so popular these days, it’s becoming a bigger and bigger target for hackers. In this post we’ll look at ten easy ways to secure your WordPress blog.

Show related posts without a plugin
HOW TO Displaying related posts is a very great way to help visitors staying longer on your blog. You can use a plugin, but you also can use tags and a custom code to show related posts. Let’s see how to do! This code will display related posts based on the current post tag(s). It must be pasted within the loop. <?php …

How to Only Show Posts With a Specific Custom Field
HOW TO Sometimes you only want to show posts that you’ve added a specific custom field to. For instance, lets say you write songs and movie reviews and for each you give them a custom field “review_type” with the value set to either “songs” or “movie”. So how would you show posts that are only movie reviews? Easily!

Display your number of tweets in full text mode on your WordPress blog
HOW TO Twitter is obviously a very useful tools for bloggers. Did you ever wanted to know how many times your posts are sent to Twitter by your readers? If yes, just read on and learn how to know it, and display it on your blog, in full text mode.

Multiple WordPress Installations Using a Single Database
HOW TO Sometimes more than one WordPress installation is necessary on a single site and WPMU would be overkill, or sometimes a hosting provider limits the number of available databases per account, or maybe you just want to keep things more organized rather than have a bunch of databases scattered everywhere. In any case, you’ll want to install multiple instances of WordPress, …

Exporting and Importing WordPress
TIPS This tutorial will cover exporting your web host wordpress to a localhost host. Assume you are done with the web host WordPress development, it is time to learn how to export and import WordPress. Then you can keep the web host version for backup purpose and future development (ie. testing new themes, plugins, and upgrades).

Prevent Duplicate Pages with Permalink Redirect
PLUGINS There are only a select few WordPress plugins that I would consider “must-haves” for all types of blogs, no matter what the blog is about. Whenever I set up a new WordPress blog for someone, the first plugin I install is called Permalink Redirect. Everything can be controlled from within the Options panel, and it works out of the box …