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Disable TweetCount Plugin on Specific WordPress Pages

I have been using the BackType TweetCount WordPress Plugin to display the Re-tweet button and Tweet Count. The plugin is feature rich, but lacks one simple feature – The ability to disable it on any specific page or post. This could be really sad in some cases, like when your blog homepage shows a static page and you probably don’t like to show the count. Pages are seldom re-tweeted.

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How to Change Permalinks of a WordPress Page without Losing Traffic

Soon my SEO brain told me, work on it and get it to the front page. That is a real deal. To start with, I changed the permalink from hire-me to a better permalink with keywords as hire-wordpress-designer-seo.

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Make a Full Width Page For Your WordPress Theme

A Full Width Page is one that has no sidebars and all the width of the page is just content. Such a page has many applications. You might not wish to show sidebars on your contact page for instance. Well, lets see some better applications of Full-Width Pages.

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Finally, Here is a sure shot way to remove WordPress meta Generator Tags

The bad thing about leaving the tags there is that, any potential hacker can easily identify which version you are using. From another angle, if someone manages to find a security glitch in any WordPress version, he would be able to search for all blogs using that particular version.

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Make Yourself a Unique WordPress Theme in 5 Easy Steps

Once you decide upon a theme, you don’t want it to look like every other blog that uses the theme, right? A unique theme works more like a brand. People remember the blog by its looks (close your eyes and think of some of the blogs that you visit frequently). So to stand out from the rest, you have to make it look different.

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