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Posted By danemorgan

Re: Juggle multiple accounts or just use one?

Thank you for the thoughts on this folks. I'm pretty pleased that a consensus here falls on the side of this that I was really hoping would be the right answer. And the same consensus is apparent in...

Forum: Social Media

14th February 2014, 01:44 PM

Replies: 11

Views: 535

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Juggle multiple accounts or just use one?

I'm a website developer. Currently I take commissions from a couple of advertising agencies and various small businesses and professional services.

What I plan to add is a theme shop with off the...

Forum: Social Media

14th February 2014, 10:50 AM

Replies: 11

Views: 535

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Juggle multiple accounts or just use one?

So you believe the extra work in maintaining and generating twice the content for very similar offerings would generate returns worth the extra effort?

Forum: Social Media

13th February 2014, 11:21 AM

Replies: 11

Views: 535

Posted By danemorgan

Juggle multiple accounts or just use one?

Lets say you want to run two similar, somewhat complimentary businesses. You are going to run each from it's own website, each with it's own name, but you are going to prominently brand yourself with...

Forum: Wanted - Members Looking To Hire You

12th August 2013, 07:24 PM

Replies: 22

[CLOSED] - Reviewers Wanted for YouTube Product.

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Posted By danemorgan

Re: Reviewers Wanted for YouTube Product.

Hey Rodney,

Thanks so much for the review copy of your The Viral Simulation YouTube course. As we discussed, I've been dong web development, building WordPress sites as my full time Online income...

Just published my first Kindle Ebook- Lets see how it goes

5th November 2012, 05:53 AM

Replies: 26

Views: 1,173

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Just published my first Kindle Ebook- Lets see how it goes

great job! I'm coming up right behind you, middle of writing my first one now.

Tips for Kindle Publishers (or anyone who wants to be one)

4th November 2012, 08:08 PM

Replies: 219

Views: 18,375

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Tips for Kindle Publishers (or anyone who wants to be one)

The reason for this work flow is that it must be published in order to know what the link is correct?

Do you have any sense that using a redirect from your own website would reduce CTR on this?

3rd November 2012, 09:45 PM

Replies: 18

Choosing Kindle Topics

Views: 963

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Choosing Kindle Topics

I'm actually reading your book now (or rather I was 20 minutes ago) and I spent some time checking some assumptions based on the tips you provided relating to this.

The four step process you...

Neat Little Method For Keyword Research For Kindle/Amazon

30th October 2012, 06:14 AM

Replies: 25

Views: 6,280

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Neat Little Method For Keyword Research For Kindle/Amazon

Are these actually search counts, or are they tag use counts? I suspect they are the latter, which isn't a bad thing, that would mean that's how many times someone cared enough about the term to add...

Forum: Offline Marketing

28th March 2012, 08:16 AM

Replies: 105

if you act like a 2 dollar whore, your going to get treated like one.

Views: 6,886

Posted By danemorgan

Re: if you act like a 2 dollar whore, your going to get treated like one.

Yes, yes I have.

The best thing I ever did after setting up shop as a self employed web developer was raise my rates. At first I was trying to compete with all of the off shore freelancers, but...

WF Kindle Slaughterhouse: Look At What You Bad People Did!

25th January 2012, 03:01 PM

Replies: 79

Views: 5,008

Posted By danemorgan

Re: WF Kindle Slaughterhouse: Look At What You Bad People Did!

Wow. not exactly how you want to get mentioned in Fast Company, huh?

I'm just getting started in the Kindle thing and I can say that as a *reader* I'm glad to see this stuff getting called out. As...

Can Anyone Explain the Very first Step In Creating A Directory In WordPress /wp-content/themes

28th April 2011, 10:41 AM

Replies: 29

I'm shot thanks to 1and1

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Posted By danemorgan

Re: I'm shot thanks to 1and1

Yep. You need name servers of your own, for whatever reason, they can be on any domain. I used one set of private name servers for all of my domains forever.

Forum: Website Design

26th April 2011, 07:47 PM

Replies: 6

Views: 730

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Can Anyone Explain the Very first Step In Creating A Directory In WordPress /wp-content/themes

Without knowing what your host does you, almost to a certainty the best way is to use FTP software such as FileZilla - The free FTP solution (http://filezilla-project.org/)

beyond that, look...

Forum: Programming

26th April 2011, 07:42 PM

Replies: 6

Know of a WORDPRESS plugin for easy redirect pages?

Views: 814

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Know of a WORDPRESS plugin for easy redirect pages?

I don't know that I would classify that one as the easiest but it is hands down the best redirection plugin out there.

Forum: Programming

20th April 2011, 06:28 AM

Replies: 14

For The Hardcore Wordpress Coding Experts Out There...

Views: 890

Posted By danemorgan

Re: For The Hardcore Wordpress Coding Experts Out There...

Like everyone else said, learn theming first. Your plugins (mostly) will have to work with the code in the themes, so if you don't know the underlying structure of the theme engine, you won't be able...

13th April 2011, 10:38 PM

Replies: 2

Wordpress: To Static Or No To Static A Post

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Posted By danemorgan

Re: Wordpress: To Static Or No To Static A Post

If your site is optimized for blue widgets, shouldn't your posts also be optimized for that?

One solution is a custom home.php template that displays both some extra "about my thing" information...

13th April 2011, 10:31 PM

Replies: 82

How'd You Make Your First $100 Online?

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Posted By danemorgan

Re: How'd You Make Your First $100 Online?

My first money online was actually from spammy little blogs in the "adult entertainment" niche, but most of my money has come from frelance WordPress development.

Would you pay a subscription for support on GPL WordPress Themes?

10th April 2011, 04:19 PM

Replies: 0

Views: 511

Posted By danemorgan

Would you pay a subscription for support on GPL WordPress Themes?

If someone were to release some Wordpress themes under a GPL license, meaning you were completely free to use the themes as much as you wanted, would you be willing to pay a nominal membership...

Forum: Website Design

10th April 2011, 04:12 PM

Replies: 40

What is the BEST or Your Favorite Wordpress Theme?

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Posted By danemorgan

Re: What is the BEST or Your Favorite Wordpress Theme?

I know a dozen guys who would have made you a full out custom theme to your exact specs for that price,. ;)

Forum: Website Design

10th April 2011, 04:09 PM

Replies: 40

What is the BEST or Your Favorite Wordpress Theme?

Views: 1,476

Posted By danemorgan

Re: What is the BEST or Your Favorite Wordpress Theme?

I love the coding. I still sometimes start with a blank white screen, but i use a couple of stripped down "blank" theme startes and twentyTen more frequently as my workload increases.

I'm really...

How to turn your simple ebook into a membership site...Easily.

10th April 2011, 04:05 PM

Replies: 15

Views: 1,260

Posted By danemorgan

Re: How to turn your simple ebook into a membership site...Easily.

I've been looking at doing pretty much exactly this, but wasn't sure what the perameters and possibilities were.

Thanks for the validation.

Forum: Website Design

10th April 2011, 11:25 AM

Replies: 40

What is the BEST or Your Favorite Wordpress Theme?

Views: 1,476

Posted By danemorgan

Re: What is the BEST or Your Favorite Wordpress Theme?

Here lately I have to confess I've become a real fan of starting with twentyten. Clean html5 markup and designed from the ground up for fast development of simple, yet elegant child themes without...

10th April 2011, 11:23 AM

Replies: 2

Can I get my site off porn directories?

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Posted By danemorgan

Re: Can I get my site off porn directories?

Not worth the effort and you'll never actively get rid of them all.

Most porn directories don't have a real long shelf life anyways so most of them will go away on their own,.

10th April 2011, 11:19 AM

Replies: 2

Wordpress Error I Need Help With

Views: 416

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Wordpress Error I Need Help With

Like theIMgeek (http://www.warriorforum.com/members/theimgeek.html) said, it isn't necessarily critical. It's a warning that some plugin passed variables to a function in a way that was not expected....

10th April 2011, 10:48 AM

Replies: 10

WordPress Help

Views: 400

Posted By danemorgan

Re: WordPress Help

All you need is a new templatepage called home.php.

Copy index.php as home.php and make any changes you need.

Should I hire the same person that designs my site to develop my site?

4th April 2011, 09:32 PM

Replies: 8

Views: 694

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Should I hire the same person that designs my site to develop my site?

Tracy is spot on here.

I can code the heck out of WordPress and make it do things you wouldn't have thought it could do. That said I do all my best work when I have a PSD from a real designer to...

4th April 2011, 11:14 AM

Replies: 32

Should I move from Tumblr to Wordpress?

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Posted By danemorgan

Re: Should I move from Tumblr to Wordpress?

It really depends on what your goals are for the blog.

Look, I make my living, full time, developing websites and 90% of that is WordPress development.

But the fact is that a lot of people try...

4th April 2011, 10:57 AM

Replies: 15

Those of you who are "self employed"

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Posted By danemorgan

Re: Those of you who are "self employed"

What i did was get married...

Is Siber Systems-Roboform shooting itself in the foot?

4th April 2011, 10:46 AM

Replies: 41

Views: 5,342

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Is Siber Systems-Roboform shooting itself in the foot?

I may be the odd man out here. I saw the message and jumpped. I had the desktop version but had been considering the online vrsion anyways because I need it for more devices. This new system works...

4th April 2011, 10:40 AM

Replies: 1

Quick question for the Youtube Gurus

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Posted By danemorgan

Quick question for the Youtube Gurus

I have a client who has a question about how Youtube stats are measured.

If he has the video embedded in his site, how does that effect clicks, views and whatever other stats for the video?
...

2nd April 2011, 03:35 PM

Replies: 5

Quick WP Question

Views: 458

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Quick WP Question

it is most probably a combination of how you have set your permalinks, how you have set your blog and home URIs and how your have set up your "blog" list page in your theme.

You are using the...

30th March 2011, 04:57 AM

Replies: 52

Buying Articles or Content? Read This Warning Now

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Posted By danemorgan

Re: Buying Articles or Content? Read This Warning Now

I would just like to point out that "something is wrong" may not be the only reason a contractor might mention copyscape. It might also be owing to the fact that at minimum a solid 30% (probably...

29th March 2011, 08:31 PM

Replies: 32

What are and aren't ethical practices on WF

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Posted By danemorgan

Re: What are and aren't ethical practices on WF

Everybody knows Ambercrombie is evil. :cool:

You Not Going to Believe This, My Host Suspended My Account

29th March 2011, 08:25 PM

Replies: 51

Views: 2,393

Posted By danemorgan

Re: You Not Going to Believe This, My Host Suspended My Account

I'm workign on a client's site right now that's hosted there and it's the most sluggish site I've worked on for a while... I can almost feel the weight of it as it grinds along trying to load a...

29th March 2011, 04:59 PM

Replies: 27

Do You Want To Join The Wordpress Hacked Club?

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Posted By danemorgan

Re: Do You Want To Join The Wordpress Hacked Club?

The reason Wordpress seems insecure is the same reason Windows seems insecure.

Potential.

If you are going to write a script to inject code into something are you going to spend your time...

29th March 2011, 04:52 PM

Replies: 27

Do You Want To Join The Wordpress Hacked Club?

Views: 2,501

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Do You Want To Join The Wordpress Hacked Club?

that's all well and good, but relly, by the time many hacks these days end up getting noticed your backups are compromised several months back.

These days and these kinds of hacks it is less about...

29th March 2011, 04:50 PM

Replies: 27

Do You Want To Join The Wordpress Hacked Club?

Views: 2,501

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Do You Want To Join The Wordpress Hacked Club?

2.7 is extremely vulnerable with several DOZEN published exploits.

The thing is that zero day exploits really aren't that dangerous for folks like us that aren't national houshold names. But once...

28th March 2011, 06:37 PM

Replies: 20

What do you look for in a premium WordPress theme?

Views: 623

Posted By danemorgan

Re: What do you look for in a premium WordPress theme?

i don't buy them, but if I did I would look for the least and leanest amount of code necessary to get the job done. Premium themes these days seem to be about a bloat race.

The Big Banks might be about to cripple Internet Marketing.

28th March 2011, 06:15 PM

Replies: 129

Views: 4,698

Posted By danemorgan

Re: The Big Banks might be about to cripple Internet Marketing.

I have four debit cards from three banks and paypal and every one of them has A master card logo on them. I don't recall that I've ever seen a debit card that did not have a credit card logo and that...

Wordpress Website Builders - What theme(s) do you like?

28th March 2011, 08:11 AM

Replies: 52

Views: 2,623

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Wordpress Website Builders - What theme(s) do you like?

The thing is that it all depends on what you want to do and what you're willing to do to get here. You can design some pretty sweet themes with three or four file overrides on the Twentyten theme and...

28th March 2011, 08:01 AM

Replies: 4

Post & pre-dating blog posts

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Posted By danemorgan

Re: Post & pre-dating blog posts

For Google it makes no difference, unless somehow you blog structure is so chaotic that they never indexed the post until it showed back up on the front page.

For readers, it can highlight some...

28th March 2011, 06:17 AM

Replies: 13

I am Hiring on Odesk....What Must I Look Out For??

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Posted By danemorgan

Re: I am Hiring on Odesk....What Must I Look Out For??

I just finished a project where I hired seven writers to write 5 articles each and had a great experience. They all commented that they loved working for me because I told them exactly what I wanted....

27th March 2011, 12:29 PM

Replies: 29

Do you use Wordpress for everything?

Views: 869

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Do you use Wordpress for everything?

It is definitely a front line solurtion, but there are other weapons that are good to have in the arsenal as well.

27th March 2011, 04:02 AM

Replies: 20

Quick WP question

Views: 853

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Quick WP question

Without any way of knowing what your theme is actually capable of and suspecting that your knowledge of the underlying code involved in a WordPress template is minimal, mikescos most certainly gave...

26th March 2011, 08:54 PM

Replies: 13

Views: 1,097

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Insert PHP Into Wordpress?

It would all depend on how (and where) it is injecting the code and what kind of sanitizing it is doing on what you type. There are other factors as well, but there are so many themes out there that...

26th March 2011, 08:39 PM

Replies: 13

Views: 1,097

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Insert PHP Into Wordpress?

No doubt. It's probably one of the oldest running plugins that I still use. Just not made to do this.

Incidentally, I think you propabaly could get this job done with Headspace2 ( WordPress ›...

26th March 2011, 08:35 PM

Replies: 7

Best Wordpress Theme for Selling eBooks?

Views: 7,549

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Best Wordpress Theme for Selling eBooks?

The best theme for selling ebooks from WordPress is the one that you have actually installed, and added some sales material and buy now buttons to. ;)

26th March 2011, 08:33 PM

Replies: 13

Views: 1,097

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Insert PHP Into Wordpress?

You can make template files for any element in WordPress. The theme files control how the pages are displayed and depending on how you name them is how they are called for any given page. You can...

26th March 2011, 08:25 PM

Replies: 13

Views: 1,097

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Insert PHP Into Wordpress?

Exec-PHP ( WordPress › Exec-PHP « WordPress Plugins (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exec-php/) ) won't work for this because the headers must be called before any output and exec-PHP does not...

26th March 2011, 08:22 PM

Replies: 13

Views: 1,097

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Insert PHP Into Wordpress?

The variables and coockies could be sent to the<head> by using the add_action() function in your functions.php file after checking that you are on the page where they are needed they are needed using...

26th March 2011, 05:12 PM

Replies: 47

Is this what is killing article marketing?

Views: 1,858

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Is this what is killing article marketing?

I know this is about "Article Marketing", but i am struck by the fact that if you were to take the words Allen Graves (http://www.warriorforum.com/members/allen-graves.html), Alexa Smith...

26th March 2011, 07:47 AM

Replies: 106

Poll: The Truth About Warriors Making Money (or not)

Views: 5,341

Posted By danemorgan

Re: The Truth About Warriors Making Money (or not)

Yes, relativity reigns supreme.

For me paying the bills from online efforts is substantial because it means not driving an hour each way to work in some factory up in Cape.

But paying the bills...

If Article Marketing Changed of Feb 24th, What Is The Way Forward for Article Marketers?

26th March 2011, 06:45 AM

Replies: 18

Views: 1,185

Posted By danemorgan

Re: If Article Marketing Changed of Feb 24th, What Is The Way Forward for Article Marketers?

Kim Roach and Jason Fladlien both endorse the use of these sites at this point.

If Article Marketing Changed of Feb 24th, What Is The Way Forward for Article Marketers?

26th March 2011, 06:41 AM

Replies: 18

Views: 1,185

Posted By danemorgan

Re: If Article Marketing Changed of Feb 24th, What Is The Way Forward for Article Marketers?

Mind sharing what you do that does provide fair value for time and or money?

26th March 2011, 06:35 AM

Replies: 18

Wordpress.com not allow ads?

Views: 930

Posted By danemorgan

Re: Wordpress.com not allow ads?

Actually, you can get away with a VERY small amount of monitization in the form of a link from the side bar. But you have to be careful, even at that. Automattics idea of spammy and yours most likely...