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How to Nofollow a Link

Adding “nofollow” to links can increase your blog’s rankings by decreasing unnecessary PageRank flow. Here’s how to do it.

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How to Create Spaced Lists in WordPress Posts

Say you have a list like this:

  • Item A
  • Item B
  • Item C

…And you want it to look like this:

  • Item A

  • Item B

  • Item C

When you have lists that contain a lot of text, spacing out the items can improve readability.

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Make WordPress and Firefox Adblock Play Nice

This potential problem is applicable to those using the following, which is probably quite a few people:

As part of its functionality, Adblock inserts a Block tab next to Flash objects, etc. to make blocking that object as easy as a couple clicks.

The problem is, Adblock will insert the HTML code for this tab into the visual editor for a WordPress post that includes Flash.

And who wants code like this in their posts?

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How to Include Code in WordPress Posts

If you’ve ever tried to insert code into a WordPress post, one of the following has probably happened to you:

  • Your HTML code was rendered as such.
  • WordPress stripped the code from the post entirely.
  • WordPress turned "straight quotes" into “curly quotes” — not good if you want your users copying/pasting code from your blog!

Here’s how to get around these annoying problem and make the code show as-is:

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