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FeedFlares for RSS Text Ads

When TLA launched their Feedvertising RSS text ads, the text links reminded me of FeedBurner's FeedFlare. If you are reading this post from an RSS reader, you will notice a bunch of text links at the bottom of the post … Continue reading

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Showing Posts When There's No Related Posts

Like many of you, I use the Related Posts plugin. I've even hacked the plugin a couple of times to deal with unrelated pages showing up as related and to exclude certain categories from the results. Today, I'm going to … Continue reading

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Hack More to Earn More

On one of my sites, I use the <!–more–> quicktag to designate the "cut-off" point for my posts. I could use the_excerpt tag, but I don't like how the excerpts look. Unless you explicitly define the excerpt for each post, … Continue reading

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Excluding Categories from the Related Posts Plugin

Someone asked me how to omit posts from certain categories when using the Related Posts plugin. He even dangled a #9 from the Taco Bell menu via Paypal. It took me about 3 hours to figure it out, so that … Continue reading

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