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SmoothSlider, the new WordPress feature content plugin, makes for a smooth work flow as you gather your post and slider images into a dazzling presentation. Save your blood, sweat, andtears for something more urgent.
Automatic Image Insertion
For consistency and ease, determine the best size for your SmoothSlider images, and get into the habit of using that size for the first image in your post content.... 
Plugin Paradise
WordPress blogging “paradise” begins with installing new plugins. Every foray into the WordPress Plugin Directory is a discovery expedition. Intending to merely hunt down a certain kind of plugin, you find a plethora of inspiring plugin tricks you never imagined existed! If you’re like me, you want to try them all.
Plugin Cautions
There’s the rub. Overloading your... 
I chose WordPress as the publishing platform for àlaBuzz largely for the abundant availability of quality free themes. You only need to check the WordPress.org Free Themes Directory, or Google “free WP themes,” to discoverhundreds of theme possibilities for your blog.
Believe me. I looked at hundreds of themes, and poked around with a good many, before making my final choice. Having no...
I never begrudge time spent searching the WordPress.org Plugin Directory. If I don’t find what I want, I find something I need but didn’t know existed. That’s the way I came across the Key To Admin plugin.
This sweet plugin allows you to set a keyboard shortcut to your WordPress admin interface. All you have to do is configure Key To Admin with a short, private code. Then when...
I thought it would be fun to play with Justin Tadlock’s free WordPress Hybrid Theme. Hybrid is a theme framework designed for use with child themes. In other words, you design your site in the child theme so you don’t ruin the ... 
