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Staying productive on your blog

Didn’t you have something teux deux today?

by Alex · 38 comments

in Tools & Services

I recently stumbled upon a new web app that has completely changed my workflow and how I get things done. Usually I’m not into web applications too much, but what I have to show you now is just an amazingly efficient productivity tool that you need to check out.

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Google Analytics: Metrics Worth Tracking

by Seth

Understanding the importance of statistics for your blog is an important step in developing your blog.  The best way to find success is by measuring performance and striving to improve it.
Now do not get me wrong, spending hours every day looking at them will not help you.  That is too much time spent on numbers [...]

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Prevent Blog Downtime

6 Plugins You Should Always Have Ready For Blog Emergencies

by Alex

Crazy things can happen to any blog at any time. Some make sure to be prepared for these things, and others may not be as prepared.
Crackers, hackers, massive floods of traffic, database errors and many more things are all preventable. With the WordPress community being as large as it is, there have been many great [...]

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7 Alternative Blogging Tools (Mac-Supported too!)

7 Alternative Blogging Tools (Mac-Supported too!)

by Janith

I can’t help but feel that many of our readers found WLW either inadequate, not suited or perhaps even completely useless. Fortunately, the comments written for my first post on Windows Live Writer suggested that either it’s not worthwhile (because WP’s Editor is pretty solid) or it wasn’t Mac-supported. So, I’ve spent some time researching [...]

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8 Excellent Extensions to Further Expand Your Windows Live Writer

8 Excellent Extensions to Further Expand Your Windows Live Writer

by Janith

Following up my recommendation post on Windows Live Writer, I promised to deliver with some of the best extensions (or plugins) that are available for WLW. Hence, I’ve spent the last week or so, researching the depths of the WLW Plugin archives (7 pages); in search of the most useful add-ons and I found couple [...]

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Windows Live Writer: The Next Step In Blogging

Windows Live Writer: The Next Step In Blogging

by Janith

I recently upgraded my MSN Messenger to the new Windows Live Messenger (I waited a while for them to release a more stable version, because knowing Microsoft they probably forgot half the code they were meant to include.)

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12 Useful Firefox Add-ons For Every Serious Blogger

12 Useful Firefox Add-ons For Every Serious Blogger

by Janith

Firefox is one of the most recognized competitors to Microsoft’s horrible Internet Explorer (IE8) because of it’s vast functionality and quite impressive flexibility. Straight out of the box, Firefox is a stable and useful browser, but with a few plugins and themes you can really customise to look and function as par with your heart’s [...]

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Wordpress 2.8

Wordpress Releases Version 2.8 “Baker”

by Janith

Yesterday, Matt wrote a quick post over at the Wordpress Blog announcing that the WP 2.8 is immediately available for download. There weren’t any official BETA testing programs for V2.8 other than the Release Candidate 1 that was published earlier this week, but without any significant problems with the RC1, they decided to launch the [...]

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bbPress better than vBulletin, IPB and phpBB

8 Reasons why bbPress Beats IPB, vBulletin & phpBB

by Alex

(Janith is having some computer problems so I have to post this for him on my account)
Who says you can’t run a forum alongside a blog? More and more, we see community-based forums integrated into sites that were first launched as independent blogs. Or maybe it’s just me, after running across ProBlogger’s forum dependent to [...]

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WPDude - Your Wordpress Technical Support Dude

WPDude – Your Wordpress Technical Support Dude

by Janith

Ever found yourself searching your head off, trying to solve that Wordpress problem? Or trying to fix something that’s not broken – but you just want to make it better?
Well I’ve found myself in that situation; too many times to count but never had a reliable resource when it comes to some of these very [...]

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Securing your blog

Is Your Blog Convincingly Secure?

by Melvin

Blog security is often overlooked by many bloggers, but is a very important precaution to take. There are many things you can and need to do to protect your blog, and Melvin will go over a handful of some important security tips.
One thing that almost all bloggers are not paying attention to when starting their [...]

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7 WP-Plugins No-One Wants To Tell You About!

7 WP-Plugins No-One Wants To Tell You About!

by Janith

Here at Blogussion, we encourage as many bloggers to utilize Wordpress on self-hosted servers – because the possibilities are just unlimited. Most of these possibilities lay within the use of WP-Plugins.

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Firefox Makes Blogging Easier

Firefox Makes Blogging Easier

by Ali Hussain

Ali Hussain, author of Techuse.net shares with you 8 fantastic FireFox plugins to help better your blogging experience. Tools ranging from Editors to in-browser FTP, this article is not to miss if you’re an avid Firefox blogger.
Blogging is a very tough job. You need to do a lot of research, writing and understating. It takes [...]

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