Resources for Information Product Producers from Ghost Leg Media
Dec 22 2008
Back in the fall, when I released my eBook, Blogging With WordPress, I promised that there would be a free, full, follow-up report on WordPress v2.7 for anyone who bought the eBook. I posted the new report – WordPress 2.7: Redesigned & Easier To Use – to the Members Only area of GhostLeg yesterday, along [...]
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Dec 11 2008
Oh boy! I just upgraded Information Sells to WordPress 2.7 So far so good. THE UPGRADE I’ve been upgrading my plug ins conscientiously, as new versions are released. Sadish announced that all his themes are WP 2.7 ready. So, although I’d planned to wait at least a few seconds before upgrading, I jumped right in. [...]
Dec 07 2008
I went to WordPress.com this morning to help a friend diagnose a problem with her blog – and discovered that WordPress.com blogs have been upgraded to WordPress 2.7 (No – WP 2.7 wasn’t what caused the problem. It was just some misplaced text.) WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate 1 appeared on Dec. 1. The final version, [...]
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Dec 05 2008
WordPress is a very powerful, highly customizable tool. The folks behind the scenes and the thousands of active developers are very responsive to the needs and requests of ordinary users. But WordPress suffers from one weakness endemic to the Open Source community: there are no easy to understand instructions. Very little about PHP is intuitive. [...]
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Nov 18 2008
Please join me today for a free webinar preview of the upcoming release of WordPress 2.7 We’ll be doing a special sneak preview of the WordPress 2.7, as well as reviewing some helpful techniques for the current version of WordPress. If you’d like to join me on today for this one hour webinar, go here [...]
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Nov 14 2008
Janelle Elms of OSI Rock Stars will be hosting a webinar with me on this coming Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 12 noon Pacific Time. Among other things, we’ll take a special, backstage sneak peak at WordPress 2.7′s new Dashboard and Plugin features. I’ve installed a beta copy of WordPress 2.7 on my web site just [...]
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Nov 14 2008
I was honored to be the guest for a three part series on the Savvy Seller’s “Tips from the Top” podcast. We talked about blogging with WordPress, and we covered a lot of ground, including: 5 Questions to Answer Before You Begin Blogging Which WordPress is right for you? Themes, Plug-Ins & SEO The Art [...]
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Nov 03 2008
Part 2 of the Tips From The Top podcast about Blogging With WordPress will take place this coming Thursday, Nov 6th at 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time / 11:00 AM Pacific Standard Time. Part 1 was recorded and is now available. You can listen to it by clicking on the Play button below. The podcast [...]
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Nov 02 2008
If you live in the US, today marks the end of Daylight Savings Time, at least until next year. If you blog with WordPress, you may need to manually adjust your time stamp. Log into your WordPress Dashboard, click on Settings, then make sure you are on the General tab (the first one). Scroll down [...]
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Oct 19 2008
Blogging With WordPress has officially been released. The deadline for the half price special has been re-aligned with the release of the book, so that folks ordering through the official download link don’t feel screwed. If you pay with PayPal and order through the official download link before 6:00 PM tonight, Pacific Time, I’ll send [...]
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Oct 17 2008
If you enjoy the posts here on Information Sells, I think you’ll enjoy my new eBook, Blogging With WordPress. About 25% of the content has previously appeared on the blog – and about 75% has never been published anywhere before. The PDF ebook has 81 pages describing everything from installing a WordPress blog on a [...]
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Oct 13 2008
Great speakers are great writers. If you want to learn to communicate, there is no better teacher than Winston Churchill. You can find MP3s of some of Churchill’s most famous speeches on the web. Churchill is a master of rhythm and repetition: “We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we [...]
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Oct 09 2008
At WordCamp in New York, Matt Mullenweg listed the Top 10 Plugins for WordPress, measured by the volume of downloads. The list isn’t really surprising, but it is instructive. If you want to know what other WordPress users find useful, take a look at these plugins: 10. cforms 9. wp-polls 8. WP Automattic Upgrade 7. [...]
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Oct 08 2008
The next version of WordPress, version 2.7, is scheduled for release in Novemeber. It looks like there will be some very cool new features and refinements to the Dashboard. You can see a demo here: http://www.centernetworks.com/wordpress-27-demo
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Oct 04 2008
Sadish Bala, the creator of the theme Palaam, which is used on this site, ran a contest last month, offering one of his beautiful Premium Themes for free if you were using one of his excellent free themes. The rules were a little more complicated than that, but basically Sadish looked at blogs using his [...]
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