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WordPress

Did you know the New Tricks Chicks clean houses?
No, we don’t do windows but we are happy to help you keep your WordPress house in tip top shape.
The Labor Day weekend WordPress worm attacks were a strong reminder to all of us to keep our WordPress sites clean and up to date. For those of [...]

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Over the US Labor Day weekend, older (pre 2.8.4) versions of WordPress were reportedly attacked by a worm which inserts hidden spam and malware into your old posts.
Here’s what the New Tricks Team recommends:

From the WordPress dashboard, select ‘Tools; Backup’. If you don’t already have the WP Database Backup plugin, then install it from ‘Plugins; [...]

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glaobalgirlsmall-copyI have been working with my daughter Amanda on her Global Girl Blog site and thought I would demonstrate how you can start with one of the thousands of ready made WordPress themes and then customize their look and feel for your own purposes. Some of the changes involve replacing the graphics with new images and some changes require edits to the CSS Style sheets.

For the Global Girl Blog site we started with

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My brother in law has been blogging for quite a few years while he and my sister have been sailing the seven seas ( well maybe not seven seas but how about two seas?). They came up to visit New Tricks World Headquarters and while he was here I was able to give him some [...]

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or The Remix version of ‘Why you should use a Blog for Your Website’ originally posted on March 24, 2009

John Bennison, Principal at Bennison Associates and former VP of Product Development at Skywire Software (now Oracle) has quickly become one of New Tricks’ BFF. Not only has John contributed his extraordinary small business coaching and technical skills to the New Tricks growing world empire, but he was kind enough to spiff up our post originally titled ‘Why you should use a Blog for Your Website’.

We like John’s version so much that we are posting it today. See the end of the post for John’s bio.

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