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Luckily, as with many Wordpress issues, there's a simply to install, simple to use plugin that will allow you to display as many posts as you want in the category and tag archives. Read the full post

Did you know guest posting is a great way to promote your brand, build links to your site, and drive traffic to your blog?

Well, it is!

We’re currently looking for people to write guest posts here on The 42nd Estate’s blog, …

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Recently, wordpress changed the default encoding for MySQL databases used in self-hosted wordpress installations from Latin to UTF-8. It’s a smart move and makes wordpress databases adhere to web standards, but the change caused some blogs to display some funky characters, that …

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Lately I’ve been installing WordPress a lot as part of The 42nd Estate’s network of sites. I’ve developed a list of things to do after installing wordpress to a server. As a reference point for you and me, here are the …

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In one of our recent posts, 10 Basic HTML Tags Every Blogger Should Know, a reader named Coree asked a great question:

I have a question about the No Follow tip. Can you explain why you would not want a search engine to follow a link, and what types of links you would use that on?

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