http://turbochargedcms.com Tools and services for bloggers and Internet entrepreneurs Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:45:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just posted a tutorial on combating banner blindness using the newest plugin I wrote, on Rudd-O.com. Don't miss it! http://turbochargedcms.com/2007/10/combating-banner-blindness-with-wordpress/ I just released a new plugin that allows people to insert AdSense ads without any fuss (read: manual work) on existing posts and pages of their WordPress blogs. It's on Rudd-O.com but at some point it will move here. http://turbochargedcms.com/2007/10/new-wordpress-plugin-intelligent-content-ad-insertion/ Here's the official announcement: Updated bundled WordPress to 2.2, for the bundled packages Updated the free plugins bundle to 2.0.2, as a result: Added a Don't throttle comments plugin, for proxy-accelerated hosts Removed Widgets plugin (now in core) Removed widgetized themes (builtin themes already widgetized) Updated CC configurator to 1.0 Fixed a bug in the Digg this ... http://turbochargedcms.com/2007/06/turbocharged-240-is-out-with-wordpress-22/ The search engine game is not just about getting top result spots. It's also about what the user sees once your content hits the first result page. Here's an example: See it? This search result shows an excerpt from the page. While this particular search result might be somewhat ... http://turbochargedcms.com/2007/06/increase-your-contents-search-engine-rankings-and-usability-with-wordpress-and-turbocharged/ Michael sent me a list of top WordPress plugins. I have to agree with his list, since I'm using most of them and Turbocharged also includes them. http://turbochargedcms.com/2007/04/a-fairly-complete-top-wordpress-plugins-list/ Everyone's been there at least once. One of your blog pages gets dugg or slashdotted. What to do? WordPress is often maligned as a resource-hungry blog platform -- one that requires a lot of resources to run in high-traffic settings. But believe it or not, it's possible to ... http://turbochargedcms.com/2007/04/weathering-heavy-traffic-with-wordpress-and-turbocharged/ A fantastic resource for Turbocharged users and those of you who are in the WordPress world but short on time: the WordPress interactive theme generator. Recommended! http://turbochargedcms.com/2007/04/an-interactive-wordpress-theme-generator/ In this tutorial, we'll learn how to seamlessly integrate WordPress/Turbocharged with Twitter. There are two things you might want to do with your WordPress blog and Twitter: You may want to display what you've been up to in the sidebar You may want to inform your readership of new blog posts Twitter enables both ... http://turbochargedcms.com/2007/04/wordpress-and-twitter-a-marriage-made-in-heaven/ This tutorial will explain how to install a WordPress plugin you've downloaded from the Internet. Believe it or not, it's rather simple. Remember the first time you uploaded WordPress to your Web host? You may not remember, or you may have installed WordPress with the many one-click install Web ... http://turbochargedcms.com/2007/04/how-to-install-a-wordpress-plugin/ Curious about what's going in the next version of WordPress? You could wade their Trac online coordination system. But I've attempted to summarize the highlights in the next version of WordPress before it gets released. The WordPress team has been hard at work, squashing bugs and introducing new and ... http://turbochargedcms.com/2007/04/what-wordpress-214-or-22-has-in-store-for-us/