There are so many great WordPress plugins out there. Unfortunately, most of them get very little exposure and usage because they are not well publicized… Here are three tips for getting the word out about your new plugin.

The popular Smarty Template Engine is full of great features, but is not the most intuitive system for developers to learn to use. And it doesn’t help that the documentation is a bit scanty. So here is the simplest and most complete tutorial you will find on writing a custom function for your Smarty templates.

One of the things that drives bloggers crazy is a wildly fluctuating FeedBurner subscriber count that goes up and down with no apparent explanation. But before you go into another chaotic panic, trying to figure out what you might be doing wrong (or right), here is a little secret that many people do not know: the FeedBurner subscriber count is not accurate.

Everyone seems to be giving their blogs a makeover. What are their reasons? And does your blog need a makeover too?

Plugins have helped transform WordPress from a simple blog-publishing application to a versatile content management system. But the very plugins that have made WordPress so great, could also be ruining it.

What is a sitemap? And how do you know if your website needs one?

The other day, Gary Conn discovered that a lot of his visitors used a dial up internet connection to access his website. He also admitted that he had recently tested his site on dial up and was horrified at how slow it was… How well does your website measure up on a dial up connection?

In this worsening economy, online contests provide websites with a cost-effective way to generate traffic, build a mailing list, and gain inbound links. But not all contests work… Here are 4 tips to make sure that your contest is successful.