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By John Garrett from Hypertransitory Good news, people…I’ve discovered the most fun you can have with WordPress -and it’s with the Advanced Custom Fields plugin. Come on in and join the party! Advanced Custom Fields…trust me Ok, sorry guys. I got you in here under false pretenses. The Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin is not [...]

Tumblr is cool. It had the “retweet” function before Twitter. Tumblr calls it a ReBlog Comments travel with every instance of the ReBlogged post And, Tumblr has it’s own ecosystem of content creators and content consumers (readers and writers) So, I think Tumblr has the right idea. Here’s why: The ReBlog function establishes Tumblr as its own ecosystem independent of Google, [...]

There’s no question about it, WordPress is an amazing blogging platform. Some well known brands such as CNN, Yahoo and General Electric trust and use WordPress to run their websites. In fact more than 16% of all websites are running on WordPress in 2012. WordPress holds 53.8% of the market share for Content Management Systems (CMS). [...]

That’s right. It’s dead. Like road kill. Put out to pasture. Extinct. Turned into nothingness. But why? One of the things we do at Triberr is look at successful blogs to figure out what is it that makes them successful? What is it that they have that small(er) blogs do not? What leverage are they [...]

I never cared for WordPress’ native comment system. Some people are able to customize it, tweak it, make it look good, but even then it fails on one important point. In order for people to comment using WordPress comment system they have to have a WordPress account. Sure, bloggers have these, but non-bloggers don’t. And [...]

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For about a million reasons, I think every serious blogger should be using a hosted WordPress installation as their blogging platform. The problem is that in order to do that, you have to purchase a hosting plan from a company like Host Gator (Affiliate Links). You have to train yourself in WordPress while paying for [...]

I dare anyone. And I mean ANYONE to challenge me on this one. .Web and Graphic designers; those artsy and creative folks follow ONE of two objectives when you hire them to design YOUR website or blog. They either follow their muse or They look to please the guy signing the check. More times than [...]