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10 Useful Answers to Common Thesis Questions

21 comments December 22, 2009

If you’re reading this, you probably already know about Thesis – you may have even already purchased it, and now you’ve got dozens of questions about how to tweak it. You’ve probably been lurking on the DIYThemes forums for a while, and you may have noticed there’s a lot of people just like you.

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Social Media sharing and community building tools

Enable Your Fans – Top Community Building and Social Sharing Tools for Your Blog

0 comments December 21, 2009

One of the most important aspects of blogging is to build your community and make it easy for people to share your content. You want to give your fans the tools to do it easily and intuitively – without cluttering your site with distractions. Here are some of the best tools available for your blog.

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15 Incredibly Useful Wordpress Plugins to Make Your Life Easier

10 comments December 21, 2009

One of the nice things about Wordpress is that there are a ton of plugins out there that will make your life easier by letting you integrate anything you want into your blog without having to touch any code. Over the years I’ve run and tested tons of plugins across dozens of sites and some plugins have proven indispensable. Here I will share the ones that fit this category.

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Add Feedburner, Mailchimp & Google Analytics

5 comments December 21, 2009

Every professional blog should have RSS tracking for feed subscribers, an email list signup form, and an analytics package. I recommend Feedburner, Mailchimp, and Google Analytics along with a few helpful related plugins.

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Add Slick Social Media Icons to Thesis

36 comments December 20, 2009

So as it currently stands there are some pretty sweet social media plugins and even some killer social media tutorials out there for Thesis, but personally I wanted to roll something custom for Art of Blog.

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Register Your Username on Social Media Sites

5 comments December 18, 2009

One of the first things I’d recommend doing after launching your site (or even right after you come up with your brand name) is to go out and register your username on the top social media sites. This is great for both reputation management and to start participating in relevant communities.

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