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Excerpt: As your site develops you will begin to wonder what would happen if your wordpress site suddenly got hacked or destroyed (yes it could happen for any number of reasons) and its at this point that you need to start thinking about backing up the databases you have created and safeguarding the information in your theme, images and plugins. Wordpress Backup makes this possible. Installing it is simple and it includes an option to have the backup files emailed directly to you for saving on your local computer but this may prove impossible as the file size grows. Do not get caught…

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Excerpt: If you have been reading blogs recently you will have spotted on a good majority of them a little speech bubble shaped button wit ha green bar under it which includes the words “tweet this”. This distinctive green button is essential as it allows visitors to ReTweet your post or information in a single click, with minimal effort to their network on twitter. As well as this it also serves to offer an idea of how important or popular visitors have deemed your post to be as the count of ReTweets is displayed in the button itself, the higher the number the…

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Excerpt: Originally developed by Joost de Valk (no I’m not stuttering it is him again!) he passed control of the plguin over to the guys at Blog Play. Quite similar to the Share This plugin in the functionality it aims to meet it is a little more simple to install and displays its options in a very different manner. With a more “upfront” display manner it is very customisable in managing the order of the icons to display and even the selection of what networks to include all managed by a simple tick box display. Another customisation you can perform includes changing the…