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Digg can be a great source of traffic and recognition for tech related blogs. Some people take it to the extreme though, and show the “Digg This” badge on every article they write.

As others have pointed out, this can be counter-productive. People don’t like to read articles that have just one Digg - they seem unpopular.

So here’s a solution: use the Conditional “Digg This” Wordpress Plugin to only show the Digg Badge for articles that have a certain number of Diggs.
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A few weeks ago, I installed the “Per Post CSS and JS” plugin for Wordpress. This allows you to add a custom field to your post and include extra .css or .js files to link to that individual page.

I only realized today - while testing something else - that the plugin had been firing off warning messages because of an oversight in the code. Warning messages annoy me, so I decided to fix it up.
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Something I struggled with recently was assigning individual style sheets to posts on this Wordpress blog. For example, if I was writing a CSS tutorial I didn’t want to muck up my general stylesheet with a bunch of styles - it’d be nice to write a small stylesheet and attach it only to the specific post that needs it.

Unfortunately, this isn’t a built in function of Wordpress. Fortunately, you can add this functionality with a plugin.
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While reading some forums this morning, I came upon an interesting question. Where is the category information stored in the Wordpress database?

I opened up phpmyadmin, expecting to see a “categories” table. No dice. After a few minutes I figured it out - and I decided it might be a good idea to explain how the Wordpress database is structured.
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You know your site is finally getting around a bit when you start getting comments. Spam comments.

I started a (now defunct) website last year, powered by Wordpress. It never got too popular, and in the beginning I was excited every time I got a “New Comment” or “New Trackback” e-mail. Then I realized they were mostly all spam.
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