Hip Hop Bloggers

So the guys who run WestHost and provide me with my awesome WordPress hosting, are a sister company of the guys that run VPS.net, and they recently gave me a VPS to play around with a bit. I kinda liked how easy it was to get a VPS up and running with a TurnKey Linux

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Playing around with VPS.net

So, we’ve finally got an official word on this, the one sentence summary by Matt reads:
PHP in WordPress themes must be GPL, artwork and CSS may be but are not required.

Ok, so that’s the final truth, because the Software Freedom Law Center (who are of course absolutely NOT partial in this, even though they’re called

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On the GPL, Themes, Plugins & Free.

I’ve just agreed with my buddy Daron Babin of WebmasterRadio.FM to be the host for a weekly WordPress podcast, no names or time slots decided yet but I’m so excited about the news that I wanted to share it with you all!
All your suggestions for names, topics and guests are welcome in the comments!
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Yet Another WordPress Podcast

Yesterday, while working on a client project, I was amazed to find out there is no simple RSS Shortcode plugin, that simply allows you to do this:
[rss feed=”http://yoast.com/feed/” num=”10″ excerpt=”false”/]
And then that would show the feed you’d specified. Well, now there is: the RSS Shortcode plugin. It looks like this, when functioning (with excerpts set

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New Plugin: RSS Shortcode

So I’m a big fan of CSS image replacement, for several reasons, most importantly because it allows for a semantically correct page while having some text replaced with images, but also because I love sprites and I love using them well.
I’ve also always been in favor of the use of CSS Image Replacement for headings,

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CSS Image Replacement, what’s up Matt?

While I was working on a new system for my WordPress newsletter, a system that uses its own custom feed (skipping FeedBurner which caused errors last week), I had to figure out how to exclude a category from my blogs regular feed as well as my homepage and some other pages.
There’s a couple of ways

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Excluding a blog category from your feed

WordTracker released a very cool FireFox plugin called SEO Blogger, which allows you to search for keywords while you write, so you can optimize your posts to the fullest and get some nice search engine traffic flowing in.
It’s pretty simple to use and I really suggest you go check it out!
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