John Pozadzides gives us “45 Ways to Power Up Your Blog”

John PozadzidesWhile searching for ways to optimize my WordPress blogs, I came across a video of a presentation given by John Pozadzides at Dallas WordCamp on 29 March 2008. John has posted the text from his talk on this blog – 45 Ways to Power Up Your Blog.

These are the tips I picked up from that 1-hour session. You can also watch the video at Viddler.

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Well done, Team WordPress!

WordPress logoToday marks a new phase in the history of my website.

For the past few days I have been experimenting with WordPress as a blogging tool. Version 2.5.1 was recently released and I thought I’d give it a try.

Having spent some time years ago with much earlier (and more raw) versions of WordPress and other blogging platforms, I was pleasantly impressed with the ease of use, plugin/widget extensibility and most of all, the SEO-savvy features of WordPress 2.5.1.

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