20 Fantastic Health and Fitness Blogs Running on WordPress

by Sarah Gooding May 1^st, 2012 8 Responses

Every morning, millions of people across the world wake up and work out. Many of those people are blogging about their experiences and some of them have even turned their sites into full-fledged, highly-trafficked magazines. We’ve collected some of the top health and fitness blogs from around the web that showcase the power of WordPress publishing. Grab your favorite health drink and get ready to be inspired!

Greatist

Tara Stiles

Tony Gentilcore

Sodium Girl

Time Healthland

Fit Bottomed Girls

Well + Good NYC

Kath Eats Real Food

Run Eat Repeat

Lululemon Blog

Daily Cup of Yoga

Just Roni

Blogilates

Nerd Fitness

Men’s Health News

Thrive Personal Fitness

The If Life

Zen to Fitness

Elephant Journal

Crude Fitness

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Introducing Paydirt: A Beautiful New Invoicing App for Freelancers

by Sarah Gooding April 26^th, 2012 2 Responses

We recently discovered Paydirt, an exciting new app with a beautiful interface that will help you get organized for invoicing and time-tracking. Paydirt was created in January 2011 by a freelance partnership between Tristan Gamillis and Nicholas Firth-McCoy. They’re located in Abbotsford in the newly established shared workspace, the House of Commons and they’ve come up with a very unique service that we think you’re going to love.

I had the opportunity to interview Tristan Gamillis this week about how Paydirt was created and where the team is headed.

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Get WordPress Security Tips from the Sucuri Pros [Free Webinar]

by Tom Ewer April 24^th, 2012 Leave a comment

If you’re conscious about security, you may well have heard of Sucuri. When it comes to securing your site against malware and hackers, they have an excellent reputation.

Which is why I was so quick to sign up to the free webinar being offered by iThemes tomorrow. I originally spotted it over at WPTavern (thanks Jeffro!), and was quick to notice that it is being co-hosted by Dre Armeda - the CEO and co-founder of Sucuri.

Get WordPress Security Tips from the Sucuri Pros [Free Webinar]

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Pretty Pretty WordPress Sites, Part 1: Top 20 Wedding Blogs

by Sarah Gooding April 19^th, 2012 2 Responses

The wedding blog genre is a favorite among women worldwide and we’ve collected the absolute best from those that are running on WordPress. This is the first in a showcase series called “Pretty Pretty WordPress Sites”. Make sure you’ve got that Pinterest bookmarklet handy, because you’re going to need it! I hope you find some inspiration and perhaps some design ideas for your own blog. These sites are beautifully designed and stand apart as exquisite examples of WordPress as a blogging platform. Be ready to spend a couple hours getting lost in photos and start bookmarking your favorites.

Green Wedding Shoes

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WordPress Weekend Reader: 10 Great Articles from Around the Web

by Joe Foley April 14^th, 2012 2 Responses

As it’s the weekend, maybe you have a little time to catch up on your reading. Below are ten WordPress related articles you may have missed recently. While all of these aren’t for everyone, you should be able to find at least a few in the bunch that you’ll be glad you read.
General WordPress Articles
1. What’s Going On In The WordPress Economy? -In this post, former WPMU.org blogger Siobhan McKeown takes a look at making money with WordPress.

2. 90 Must Follow WordPress Experts on Twitter – If you want to know what’s up with WordPress, follow the following.

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Quick Tip: The Easiest Image Placeholder Tool I Have Found

by Tom Ewer April 5^th, 2012 3 Responses

As web developers, many of you have need for placeholder images. Whether you are working with clients who have yet to provide you with appropriate images, or you are working on a site for your own personal portfolio and haven’t produced graphics yet, having a simple way of inserting placeholder images can save you valuable time.

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How to Change the Titles of Your WordPress Category and Tag Meta Boxes

by Joe Foley April 3^rd, 2012 6 Responses

We all know what the category and tag meta boxes look like on the write/edit page in WordPress.

But as many of us look to use WordPress as a general content management system (CMS) and not just a blogging tool, it may help to change the labels on certain things, especially if you are building for clients or site users who don’t even realize they’re using a “blogging” platform.

In this example, I’m going to change the name of my Categories meta box to “Country,” and I’m going to change the name of my Tags meta box to “City.”

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Some Amazing WordPress Statistics to Brighten Up Your Day

by Timothy Bowers April 3^rd, 2012 2 Responses

If you’re an avid user of WordPress, you already know that it’s the greatest publishing tool and CMS on Planet Earth.

But sometimes it’s fun to crunch a few numbers and remind yourself of how much ass WordPress really kicks.

So I’ve scoured the interwebs this morning, and dug up some fun little factoids. These data nuggets really illustrate the dizzying heights that the WordPress community has reached. Enjoy!

Some WordPress statistics…

WordPress 3.3 has been downloaded over 12 million times. This latest version of the software was released on 12 December 2011, making that an average figure of 105,263 downloads per day.

Amazing facts and statistics about WordPress

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Create Backlinks to Your WordPress Blog for Better Search Rankings

by Timothy Bowers March 29^th, 2012 16 Responses

Any WordPress blogger with half an SEO brain in their head understands the importance of creating backlinks.

If you want your WordPress site to rank well in SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages), you need to build up a portfolio of high quality links, both to your home page and your individual posts, from a variety of different sources on the web.

Google judges the ‘authority’ of a given web page, in part, by the number of other web pages that link to it. More links means greater perceived authority, which translates to higher rankings.

Common strategies for creating backlinks to your WordPress blog

Tips for getting more backlinks and boosting your WordPress SEO

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Add A Cutting Edge To Your Conversions With Hello Bar

by Tom Ewer March 22^nd, 2012 4 Responses

You could call me a masochist. Anyone who decides to feature something that is already popular and has been around for years to a savvy and technically-gifted audience obviously has a screw loose.

But I look at it a different way. I have known about Hello Bar for a long time, but have never used it. For whatever reason, I have never taken that step from mild interest to “I should really try this out”.

Add A Cutting Edge To Your Conversions With Hello Bar