How to create a peel ad in a WordPress blog

A peel ad is often a great way to advertise a chosen product. It doesn’t matter if it’s your own product or a affiliate product. This type of ad is one of the most successful when it comes to get the users attention. The installation is fairly simple and it can be set up in just 5 min.

If you are the lazy type just like me, go ahead and download this plugin, it does the same thing. If you would like to find out how to code your peel ad here is how to do it:
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How to make a author box in WordPress

This simple technique will allow your article authors to display a bio and a Twitter link at the end of every article they write. The process is fully automatic, and the authors only need to fill in the required fields on their registration.

This is a simple and effective way to give authors that link love that they deserve for writing on your blog. The tutorial include some simple steps and code to set up. The tutorial is about setting up a author description and bio along with a Twitter link, and finally showing them inside a author box in WordPress.
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How to debug for IE6 with multiple IE instances

Often when I find myself developing a new “something” for anyone, I have serious problems in IE, especially in IE6. As much as I would want IE6 to die in excruciating pain, I still have to develop and provide support for it.

Here is how you can have multiple instances of IE installed on the same machine, without the lack of productivity from IE8.
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How to make your very own CAPTCHA

CAPTCHA – a familiar term to some of us but also a weird word for others, nonetheless CAPTCHA is one of those thing everybody comes in contact somehow. Like the name tells it CAPTCHA is a acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Basically it`s whole purpose is to tell if you are a human or a bot.

The system is a security feature first implemented by Yahoo, and soon spreaded on a big number of systems to improve security. The CAPTCHA is a representative image containing squiggly words that asks the user to type the word inside a form. A thing that a machine cannot possibly do.
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How to set up a hotel reservation form in a WordPress page

A few days back I was asked by a client to set up a hotel reservation form in his WordPress powered website. The problem is easy to solve and implement. This tutorial consists of setting up a WordPress custom page template and some php for a Hotel reservation page.

By the end of this tutorial you will know hot to set up a hotel reservation page, a restaurant reservation page or anything that requires a reservation inside WordPress.
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The 3 godlike design books you must read

Some really devoted design people are ready to take it up to the next level, and write a on-line or off-line resource to help others in the quest for the perfect design.

The costs are very low in addition to the valuable knowledge the books offer so, head on over and preorder/order/download the best design books the community has to offer.
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How to increase RSS readers and social networking exposure

When you develop a new blog, often, the big question that comes in to the mind is where and how can you get readers and trusted visitors to read your blog posts. Well, recently I found a great plugin for Wordpress that helps you achieve and increase your blog readers.

WP Greet Box is a wordpress plugin that greets your blog visitors on every post page based on what place they are coming from.
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How to embed Google Wave inside Wordpress

First off, I was thinking of writing a short tutorial on how to embed Google Wave inside a Wordpress blog using a simple developer plugin. Well, then I checked the Google competitors on that actual keyword …. and I was amazed.

The Google feature is not even released to the world and already a few smart bloggers wrote about it. This calls for actual thinking ahead of things, and this is how to write stuff. Think ahead of what others will be searching and start writing.
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5 tips on how to get your wordpress theme inside the wordpress theme directory

I know quite a few Wordpress theme developers that want to share their work freely to the world trough the Wordpress theme directory community. Here are some small but effective tips on how to get on the WTD more quickly and with fewer updates.

These tips are personally tried out after many theme version rejects. Also it`s a good idea to read the theme information page and theme development checklist before uploading a theme.
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Wordpress post related hacks to improve your template

In this article you will find various ways of improving your theme by adding various wordpress post hacks like showing related posts, setting up and showing scheduled posts or showing a featured post. All of these hacks can optimize your wordpress blog by increasing time on site, bounce rate and other SEO issues.
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