Jerry Leventer

A friend asked me to explain what the different user roles in Wordpress 2.7 were capable of and what permissions they had.
I decided to post my findings here so everyone can benefit.
Here’s a simple list:
from Hippo Web Solutions
By default there are five Roles, each of which has progressively more power:

Administrator
Editor
Author
Contributor
Subscriber

Capabilities represent the various tasks that [...]

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Here are several Essential WordPress™ plugins that you should find most useful. Keep in mind that WordPress future updates will often incorporate a plugin into their core functionality thus rendering the separate plugin unnecessary.
The first two are useful for frequently updating Wordpress.
1. One Click Plugin Updater
http://w-shadow.com/blog/2007/10/19/one-click-plugin-updater/
2. Wordpress Automatic Upgrade
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/
3. No Revisions
Disables post revisions [...]

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Rapid CSS Editor & Emulator allows you see the results of your CSS edits before you upload them.

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When you upgrade Wordpress to version 2.3, this will provide automatic settings to fix the canonical URL issues.
Canonical URL’s is not a difficult concept to understand once you look at what the SEO issues are.
If your home page is located at http://www.YourSite.com/ then Google and other search engines will index that page. [...]

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Here are a couple easy steps you can take to prevent your Wordpress Blog from being “hacked”.
1) It is easy for someone to view your themes and plugins folders if you don’t do this one little thing.
Launch your favorite text editor and save a new file as index.php.
Then paste the following code into it:
<?php
// [...]

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Perhaps you’ve heard of Mark Joyner. Some refer to him as the Godfather of internet marketing because he’s been around since the beginning. He is the owner of Simpleology and he wrote The Irresistible Offer
and The Great Formula: for Creating Maximum Profit with Minimal Effort.
Mark claims that it took him six [...]

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In order to combat blog comment spam, Wordpress and other blogging platforms have turned off link backs from within comments. Many bloggers however want this nofollow feature turned back on.
There are several useful plugins for Wordpress which remove the NoFollow microformat extension. Here is a partial list I found on Andy Beard’s blog:
Lucia’s [...]

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How WordPress Outguns Blogger
By Sherman Hu | Published 08/7/2006

Five Compelling Reasons Why WordPress is Superior to Blogger for Blogging

In a January 2006 survey conducted by WordpressTutorials.com, 48% of respondents admitted to just starting to experiment with blogging.
The purpose of their blogs vary from promoting their products and services, to building a community in their [...]

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