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Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes The least utilized option in Wordpress, the custom field, is also quite possibly the most powerful function of the entire platform. I have been writing up my own tutorials on this option for several days now and thought I would share with you a few of the other great posts on the subject. The Top 5 Uses for Wordpress Custom Fields  by  Oak Innovations Blog For the vast majority of bloggers, this incredibly usefull, and versatile piece of functionality goes unused. At the moment you may be thinking that the reason you don’t use it, is that you have no use for it. This may very well be true but, its also likely that no one has really explained what’s possible. Learn how to use Wordpress Custom Fields | Kriesi.at – new media design WordPress gives an author the ability to add extra data to each written post and page. This data is called meta-data and is stored in custom fields. WordPress Custom Fields Contest If you are a wordpress blogger, how... 

Reading time: < 1 minute I found two new blogs (new for me) that have really given me some insight which I will try and expand on later, but for now you really should be reading these blogs or getting the feeds. First Is Copy Brighter, which is full of great tips on reputation building.  Zac Johnson is very knowledgeable with lots of really good ideas.  Read More →

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes Here is your daily round up of everything you should have read today, but didn’t because you were jerking all morning, napped this afternoon, farted around with your new theme project this evening, watched idol, blogged about idol, wondered where all this traffic came from on The Other Blog, fooled around some more with your theme and then wondered what you were going to post today over in Blog Boy. i suppose I could have twitted all that today. Mani at The Daily SEO Blog brought us Tags and Categories – SEO and Usability Darren blogged on branding your blog with your name in The Choice of Associating Your Name with Your Blog Last but not least Sara gives us a very appropriate post on tax day in Free Tax Sites: A Lesson for Bloggers about Advertising Balance  Read More →