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    The FourFourNiner Episode 2

    29/02/08 by Chris Garrett3 Comments

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    David and I are back to answer more bloggers questions! Episode 2 sees us tucking into Blog Networks, Expression Engine vs. Wordpress (with input from the legendary Andy Clarke), letting people post to your blog (and David shows us with a snazzy plugin).

    We’ve even got some out-takes right at the end!

     
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    The FourFourNiner: The Pilot

    11/02/08 by Chris Garrett11 Comments

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    What do you get when you mix a professional blogger, a blog designer, Skype and some sound bytes from law & order? The FourFourNiner of course!

    David and I got together on Skype last week to answer all your questions about blogging and bring you the very first FourFourNiner. In this episode we cover all kinds of things, from SEO to relocating blogs and even how to get a job as a blogger. It’s an action packed 30 minutes and guess what… There’ll be more next week!

    Here are a few links which we mentioned in the show:

    and also thanks to everyone that supplied questions: Grant, Andrew, Titus Ferguson, and Kate Smith.

    Don’t forget, you can subscribe to the podcast RSS feed too.

     
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    We need your questions

    04/02/08 by Chris Garrett8 Comments

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    I’ve just managed to rope my good friend David Peralty into recording a 449 podcast, which we’re hoping will become the leading audio solution to all your blogging problems.

    What we need from you is questions… Questions about Wordpress, blog design, code, promotion, marketing, SEO and anything else blogging or small business related.

    So here’s the exchange: leave a comment or with your questions and we’ll answer it in the podcast. You can then download it to your portable media device and consume at your leisure.

    We want to solve you problems! Just let us know what they are…

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    The mysteries of Enclosures revealed…

    20/12/07 by Chris Garrett1 Comment

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    My good friend Galba Bright recently asked me about “podcast-enabling” his Wordpress blog. He had thought that it was necessary to install the Podpress plugin. However, while this has it’s benefits, you don’t need anything more than the sheer beauty of a vanilla Wordpress install.

    You see, the only difference between a traditional Wordpress blog and a Wordpress podcast is a nifty snippet of code in your RSS feed, called an Enclosure. Essentially, all this is is a link to the media file (mp3, avi, whatever) that and other Podcatchers can use to locate and download the podcast. Here’s an example of an enclosure in your RSS feed: .

    The question is, how do you add this little snippet of code to your feed? This is where the beauty of Wordpress really shines through. Simply by linking to an MP3 file when you create a post, like so, creates an enclosure in your feed automatically. It really is that simple, so get podcasting :)

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