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Single Property Site - Sidebar Widget

March 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment

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The Sidebar Widget is essential for quicklysetting up my property sites.  This means that I usually pick themes that are already widgetized. Once you activate the plugin go to the presentation tab.  There you will see the Sidebar Widget listed.
I like having [...]

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Single Property Site - Plugins

March 13th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Plugins really make setting up a single property site much easier.  One Plugin I use heavily is the Sidebar Widget plugin, when you chose a theme you want to make sure it is “Widget ready” or “widgetized”  if not you will need to know how to go in and modify the theme code to include [...]

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Single Property Site - Categories

March 4th, 2007 · No Comments

There are two types of categories

Categories for organizing your posts
Categories for organizing your blogroll (links)

Wordpress 2.1 changed the way it handles categories behind the scenes and now allows you to create them on the fly. For our purposes they haven’t changed a great deal. For SEO purposes here are my suggestions for Category [...]

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Single Property Sites - Setting up Wordpress

February 26th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Setting up the wp-configure.php file
Before you can install Wordpress you have to have a valid MYSQL database setup and you have to create the wp-configure.php file.
Here is the current place to go to get The latest version of Wordpress.
Wordpress comes with a wp-sample-configure.php file.  You can open this using notepad if you don’t have a [...]

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Single Property Sites - What’s in a Name

February 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Domain, sub-domain, folder, that is the question whether it is better to suffer the slings and arrows . . .
One of the first things you will want to decide is how to handle your domain name for the property site.  Your decision might have to be based on your particular hosting options.  If you are [...]

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