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For some of you this may have never even crossed their minds, but have you ever wondered how to add your own WordPress Post Editor buttons? (When I say the WordPress Post Editor, I’m referring to the area where you write your posts).

Well, yesterday it dawned on me that it would make my life a lot easier if I could, with 1 click of a button, add in <h1> and <h2> tags into my posts. Wouldn’t that be awesome? Hell yeah dude!

Alright, so with that said, I’ll be running through some steps with you to get your WordPress Post Editor (in Code view) to look like this:

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So it’s Monday night at 11:20pm and I’ve just discovered Small Potato from WPDesigner.com has announched Project H (Project Hosting). Small Potato is now going to be offering WordPress hosting for $20/month!

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Browsing around the net today I realized there are some pretty cool WordPress graphics out there. I’ll be wrapping up my favorite WordPress Buttons, Logos, and Wallpapers.

WordPress Flare Wallpaper

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What really makes WordPress stand out from similar Content Management Systems? Is it the easy-to-use admin panel? What about all the free themes for it? Does it stand out because it’s free? Or is it because of the huge selection of free plugins available to the public? It’s definitely those plugins!

Plugins allow users to extend WordPress’ capability beyond most people’s expectations. In the end, WordPress is worthless without plugins. According to WordPress.org, “plugins are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress.”

Still not convinced that plugins are essential to WordPress? As a test, disable all your plugins for a week and see how your WordPress powered site runs. A good percentage of you won’t last a day!

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During the last couples of days I’ve seen some pretty neat stuff coming from different blogs throughout the WordPress Community. The WordPress Community is a pretty big place. A while back, I read 0.8% of the Internet is powered by WordPress. Woah! Now, 0.8% may not seem a lot, but think about it, at least a couple hundred sites are created a day.

Anyway, I’ll be going through some cool WordPress related stuff you should check out!

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Once upon a time, there was a Web stats application called Mint. “Mint is an extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity. Visits, referrers, popular pages and searches can all be taken in at a glance on Mint’s flexible dashboard.”

I love Mint. Although it costs $30, it’s still simple, sexy, reliable, and easy to work with. But what does Mint have to do with WordPress?

In this post, I’ll be going over how to install Mint, install a Pepper (a Mint add-on), my review of Mint, and show you how it can work with WordPress.

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Where has WordPress been and where did it come from? In the following post, I’ll be telling you about the History of WordPress.

I will begin with the first version of WordPress right up to version 1.2.2. So go put the kettle on, get comfortable and get ready for WPCandy’s first history lesson!

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WordPress by default is a blogging tool and works extremely well at it. After much debate the developers added the ability to create pages as well as posts, however WP isn’t built for advanced pages, it was only developed to say create an about page or contact page with simple text only.

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