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Today we’ll be reviewing a fun little plugin called Flexo Archives, but before we do, lets talk a little bit about Widgets.
What’s a widget?
A WordPress Widget is a plugin (or part of a plugin) that is designed to provide a simple way to arrange the various elements of your blog’s sidebar content without having to [...]

Remember the days before spam?
- Akismet
I remember my very first spam email like it was yesterday.  I was looking at my good old hotmail inbox and wondering why I never got any emails when suddenly, as though an answer to my prayers, I received an email from someone I didn’t know.
Being both naive and confused, [...]

As we begin to ramp up the different articles that will be published on FuglyCode.com, I’m proud to announce our first article series: Blog Tools Review.
Articles of this series will be posted every Wednesday around noon ET and will focus on the different tools, themes and plugins that I commonly use to make my blogs easier [...]

So today we’re going to be diving into blog plugins, but before we do, I’d invite you to read the Blog Engine and Blog Themes post if you havn’t already done so, just to make sure we are all on the same page.
What’s a plugin?
Before we jump into reviewing the different plugins that I use [...]

Now I know I said that I would be talking about plugins for my second Blog Tools Review, but truth be told there is one aspect of maintaining a blog that I should cover first: Themes.
What’s a Theme?
A theme is to a blog like makeup is to a person.
- Me
What does that mean?  It means that themes [...]

For the first of my Blog Tools Reviews, I figure its only fair that I talk about blogs in general to make sure we are all on a level playing field.
So first off, what’s a blog?
The very first thing that one should know is: what is a blog?
A blog (a contraction of the term “web log“) is a [...]