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    another wordpress question ... rss links

    You know when you see a wordpress blog and on one of the menu's there are links to various feeds you can add the site to. For example add this to del.iciou.us add this to my yahoo etc. Anyone know where the code or plug in for that is?
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    what are pings?

    Wordpress has this thing called pings. What is that? I can't work out what it does. From an IT point of view I know what it is to ping an address but I'm not getting it with the wordpress version of it.
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    what are tags?

    If you look at netscapes new site they have a thing called popular tags. it looks like a bunch of jumbled words. some are small some are large. what is that??
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    Do you have a genuine HTML site?

    Or are you running mod rewrites to hide your CMS generated pages into page.html? Has true, HTML code disappeared in favour of PHP/ASP/.NET/CMS etc?
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    SHTML vs PHP includes

    Remember when the best way to use includes was to run SHTML on your site and have the includes that way? Does anyone still use that method or do you prefer to use PHP includes?
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    RSS feeds

    Do you make use of them? Do you offer them on your site? Do you ever code specifically with RSS in mind?
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    Credit card processing

    Who do you use to process credit card transactions? Good? Bad? Indifferent?
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    Your experiences with backodering

    I've never back ordered a domain name. For those that have, how do you find it? Had any success? Did it cost you much? What back ordering places do you recommend?
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    Your name as a domain

    Do you have your name in a domain name? Eg. firstnamelastname.com or firstname.com or lastname.com? I've been hoping to get my last name in a .com format for years. The name expires on the 17th July. I'm hoping no one else wants it and finally after about 5 years of waiting it will be mine!
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    How do you organise your bill payments?

    Do you just pay them as they come in or do you have a system for it? What about things that occur on or around the same tiem every month? I have a few things (phone, water, electricity, etc) that come in and need to be paid at roughly the same time ever x amount of months. My problem is I get...
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    What is your search engine of choice

    When searching for info what is your search engine of choice? It seems Google has become the defacto standard for searching. I often hear people say "I'll look for it on google" or "I'll google that to find out". There are tons of others though. MSN, Yahoo, Altavista to name a few. What do...
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    Are blogs being overdone?

    Do you think that blogs are too common now? Everyone and their dog has a blog today. Do you think there is any room left for blogs or is the next "big thing" due to hit?
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    ad pages that disappear

    What do you think about those ad pages that disappear after a few seconds. You know the ones - pretty common on game sites, you click a link to a new page of some sort and you are intecepted with a full page ad. It says the ad will go away in 5 seconds or click here to go to the page you...
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    How sad is this...

    I just looked at the main page of the forum. How sad am I? ;)
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    Dangers of shared IP and spam

    Inspired from this post. Be aware that if you have all your sites on a shared IP address and that IP gets listed in the ORBS database as being a source of spam. You can say goodbye to a lot of visitors. Several ISP's now block sites sitting on ORBS listed IP addresses. Also email can suddenly...
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    How effective are you blocked sites

    In adsense you can block certain sites or URL's from having their ads displayed on your site. If you use these blocks how effective do you find them?
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    are you spending more time here than working on your sites?

    I know I am. Ugh this place is too addictive - especially with the promise of a site built by Jon and his team within so close a reach!
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    AJAX utilisation

    How do you impliment Ajax on your sites? Do you think there is any value to it or is it a gimick? The only really good use of ajax I've seen so far is used in Vbulletin. Any other examples of good ajax use - beyond gimicks?
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    What do you do with your unused domain names

    When you buy a domain name - for whatever reason, be it to have for future use on a project you want to get into or just to have because it's similar to one you already own. What do you do with them? Do you park them on top of another and face googles anger or do you 301 redirect them or do...
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    Domain name suggestion tool

    PLease list sites you go to that offer domain name suggestions. I use www.domaintools.com a lot. They used to be known as whois.cc Who do you use?