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January 27th, 2009

New on Lynda.com: Self-Hosting a WordPress Site

New training videos for self-hosted WordPress users.

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March 14th, 2007

WordPress as a CMS: Table of Contents

Heres the list: Part 1: I Discover that WordPress Makes an Excellent Content Management System Part 2: Finding and Modifying Just the Right Theme Part 3: Planning the Site’s Organization and Creating the Pages Part 4: Adding Category-Specific Post Links to the Sidebar Part 5: Adding Random Images Part 6: Adding Print and E-Mail Features Part 7: Creating a Title-less Home Page I refer to this series in quite a few other pieces here.

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March 11th, 2007

How to Display Category-Specific Introductory Content

Another WordPress how-to.

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August 21st, 2006

WordPress as a CMS, Part 7

Creating a title-less Home page.

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August 14th, 2006

WordPress as a CMS, Part 6

Adding print and e-mail features.

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August 7th, 2006

WordPress as a CMS, Part 5

Adding Random Images

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July 31st, 2006

WordPress as a CMS, Part 4

Adding category-specific post links to the sidebar.

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July 24th, 2006

WordPress as a CMS, Part 3

Planning the site’s organization and creating the Pages.

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July 17th, 2006

WordPress as a CMS, Part 2

Finding and modifying just the right theme.

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July 12th, 2006

Using Conditional Tags – The Basics

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July 10th, 2006

WordPress as a CMS, Part 1

Articles in this Series: • Part 1: I Discover that WordPress Makes an Excellent Content Management System • Part 2: Finding and Modifying Just the Right Theme • Part 3: Planning the Site’s Organization and Creating the Pages • Part 4: Adding Category-Specific Post Links to the Sidebar • Part 5: Adding Random Images • Part 6: Adding Print and E-Mail Features • Part 7: Creating a Title-less Home Page CMS.

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