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WordPress Social network

January 12, 2011 By

First off, this post won’t tell you how to convert your existing or new WordPress site into a social network.. but I can also help you do that if you ask nicely. I haven’t been posting much on PurpleHazard, because I’ve been busy with a bunch of other small projects… that said I do get [...]

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Advertise Your Blog For Free

October 18, 2010 By

I recently setup a project where WordPress users and developers can ask and answer WordPress and Blogging related questions. It’s a very simple system. But as an incentive to get people to ask and answer questions I’ve done the following. 1. Follow Comments All comments are now “DoFollow” , which removes the default NoFollow on [...]

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WordPress Categories to Index or to Noindex

October 5, 2010 By

This is a debate that’s been going on for a good while now, mostly due to the fact that the answer is subject to how your blog is setup, or so they say. I’ll give you the quick rundown of the two arguments. 1. Index Category Pages Reasoning : Your categories contain keywords which you [...]

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Purple Hazard Shifting Focus

September 22, 2010 By

I’ve been working on different projects the last couple of months, mostly technology and gaming related. Had a bunch of posts I wanted to make but didn’t want to bombard my” Blogging” site, Purple Hazard, with unrelated content. To fix my little problem I’ve decided to change the focus point of PurpleHazard.com to include more [...]

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Free Hosting Competition

September 13, 2010 By
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Purple Hazard is launching its first competition. We will be offering two free hosting accounts where you can launch your own WordPress driven site. We will also be available to setup your site, and do some promo to get it off the ground for free. How to join: 1. Use our Submit Article page to [...]

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BuddyPress on WP 3 Project

May 31, 2010 By

I’ve recently been working with BuddyPress and used it to setup my first rugby community. I’ve been enjoying it so much I got myself a new domain, awesome hosting package, some friends and setup a new blogging social network. I’m using the BuddyPress Default theme with the Widgetized Frontpage “page template”. As an extra I [...]

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Using CMF Ads on your blog

May 21, 2010 By

I’ve always been interested in ways to monetize your blog, but I don’t always spend the time on implementing or fully testing them. Hits have been increasing on all my blogs recently, specifically my new BuddyPress install at www.rugbyshout.com and this increased my “awareness” of monetizing my blogs. Anyway, enough with the musings. I’ve heard [...]

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WordPress 3.0

February 23, 2010 By

These are just some of the resources I follow regarding the development and release of WordPress 3.0 or “Multisite”. 1.  WordPress Multisite Settings : Two screenshots of the WordPress Multisite Settings. 2.  WordPress.org Roadmap – Current planned releases, and links to their respective milestones. 3. WordPress 3.0 – A deeper look at the WordPress 3.0 Code. [...]

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South African Bloggers Network

February 15, 2010 By

I recently noticed a lot of South African bloggers mentioning a Ning powered Blogging Social Network, located at http://sabloggers.ning.com . It seems, however, that the site was closed down. I decided to setup a new Ning powered community at the same adress. So, if you’re a South African blogger who would like to share and [...]

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Link Love Top 10

June 12, 2009 By

You might notice over the next couple of months that we’ve been building a bunch of awesome lists. Why? Because people like myself, love lists. We love compact top 10 lists. This is why we decided to setup the Top 10 Link Love List. Each week we will run a poll with ten suggested blogs. [...]

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