There has been a lot of talk on the Contempt Theme page about support for some of the newer WordPress features etc – we will be doing a Contempt v3 theme once WordPress 3.0 is released!

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We posted an entry called “Triple Your WordPress Blog Hits in a Week“, which essentially guides you through installing an automated blog translation tool in order to attract non-English readers to your blog – this is an update to that post. Now in the beginning it did look like we had tripled our readership but [...]

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This is especially valuable if you’ve been rolling a WordPress install thats been around for a while (such as ours); a plugin which deletes old post revisions, spams, and optimizes the tables in your database! WP-Optimize [plugin] is pretty simple but it may save you a lot of space, and speed things up a bit [...]

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For anyone who doesn’t know, Gravatar is the global avatar system used by a lot of bloggers, specifically supported by the latest WordPress. Essentially, it associates an avatar with an email address you use to comment, so you can have your avatar show when you comment on blogs! Now, naturally its important to have an [...]

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So we were digging through older stuff and stumbled upon something we used to do with the guys from Vault9, MadAvatar. It was never properly launched and died an early death, but we’ve revived it and put it up again! Essentially, it allows you to customize an avatar for use on a forum or as [...]

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We’re proud to announce our third WordPress theme, Entropy! Its free to download and modify but please do leave us a comment and a back link in the theme if you do. Let us know if you like it, and enjoy! Features Different front page from posts, unique look and feel. Grunge based red and [...]

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We often write about search engine optimization for bloggers here, and something we always mention when talking about PageRank or any search engine technology really are BackLinks (BL). Search engines consider links to your blog to be one of the most valuable ways of telling your authority for a certain term. If you are talking [...]

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I spent a chunk of the weekend working on a new WordPress theme which I’m currently calling Entropy. It’s gray/red and pretty neat and straight forward with a grungy feel. I haven’t even started on the single post/page look and feel; but the front page is nearing completion aside from the tag cloud etc. If [...]

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Every time I upgrade my Firefox 3 beta all my plugins stop working, and I’m almost always certain that there is no real reason aside from the version shift – there are no relevant changes etc. The most critical of these is my new favourite blogging tool, Zemanta. As I’m sure you’ve noticed there have [...]

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Zemanta is (currently) a Firefox plugin which throws your blogging into overdrive – it automatically suggests and inserts images, links, related links and tags into your blog posts in (currently) WordPress (even 2.5), Blogger and TypePad. Oh, and we love it. Functionality Zemanta works exactly how you’d want it – without any changes to your [...]

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