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How To Remove Dates From WordPress Posts

Yesterday evening my wife discovered by experimentation how to easily remove dates from WordPress posts without editing the theme files and without using a WordPress plugin.  Otherwise known as dateless posts, it can sometimes be useful to create your blog without dates on any of the posts.  Yes you could use pages exclusively, but sometimes that’s just not what you want.

We’d first tried to do it with a plugin that was supposed to remove dates, but it was an old plugin and didn’t work with the themes we were using, so I’d sort of resigned myself to editing the theme to remove them, but I only wanted to do that as a last resort because if the theme got updated, any customisation is usually lost.

So last night my wife sat quietly fiddling with one of her blogs and found the answer.  Well, at least for the theme she was using – SemioLogic Pro – the same theme I use on this site.  I’ve tried it with a couple of other themes and it didn’t work, but that doesn’t mean to say it won’t work for you either now or in the future if the WordPress developers decide to change things a little.

What she did was perfectly logical and easily overlooked.  Go to Settings-General and scroll down to Date Format.  Select the Custom radio button and delete the contents of the box next to it – you may also have to do it with the time too – and click Save Changes.

Ta-daa!

No more dates on posts.

Not ideal if you want some posts to show dates and others not, and as I said it doesn’t work with every theme, but I know that at least some people will find this useful.  Hopefully someone will eventually write a plugin that does this properly with post level control, but until then we have to use workarounds like this.

-Frank Haywood

Posted by Frank Haywood in software

Brand New PLR Software Site Pre-Launching Today

I’m very excited to be able to tell you that something I’ve been working on for several weeks now is finally coming to fruition.

Last year I decided I wanted to help you get rid of your job and start working for yourself.  There are many paths you can take to get there, and I always advise people to work towards multiple streams of income.  That way if one fails for whatever reason, you have others you can fall back on.

Over the years I’ve been on this planet, I’ve done all sorts of things to earn a living, and I’ve held down all sorts of jobs from fish-fryer to Data Manager for the projects that introduced the last two Range Rovers to the world.  But the VERY BEST thing I ever did was to strike out on my own.

Don’t get me wrong.  There have been ups and downs.  There have been some months I’ve started where I’ve wondered where the money to pay the mortgage was going to come from.  But somehow we always made it through.

And I KNOW that some people reading this are in that position right now through no fault of their own.

The problem is from the moment we’re born it’s always been about the job.

Our entire society literally forces people out of school and into a job, and any square peg that doesn’t want to fit that round hole is frowned upon.

The problem with a job is that when you take one, you’re at the mercy of someone else.  You’re putting all your eggs in one basket.  Your entire livelihood can be taken from you at any moment, and you don’t have ANY income security.

There’s the difference.  Income security as opposed to job security.  I don’t believe there’s any such thing as the latter, it’s really all just smoke and mirrors when you think long and hard about it.

If you want income security, then you have to do as I’ve suggested above.  You have to ensure you have multiple income streams.

If one breaks, it’s a hiccup, not a disaster.

That’s why I decided to launch this new PLR software membership.  It’s so you can add an additional income stream and protect your livelihood.

This is the first prong of my multi-pronged effort to help you make it this year.

I always say your target should be to replace your current income from your job by this time next year, whenever you start.  It’s not easy.  It takes effort.  But the rewards are well worth it…

-You no longer have to do what your boss tells you to, simply because you don’t have one.

-You don’t have to get up at 7.00am just to go to work for 8 hours.

-When you do work, then it’s all for you.  You’re not making someone else rich.

-If you feel like some time off for a walk in the park, then you can take it.

-You’re not working for / with people that are clearly stupid in a way that it seems only you can see.  Yes, I think we’ve all felt like that at some point haven’t we?  Whether it’s true or not.

The list goes on…

Where was I?

Oh yes, multiple income streams.  That’s very important.

Here’s your first of 2010.

In three hours time at 6.00pm GMT (1.00pm EST), my new monthly software membership goes live.  Membership is available for the first 100 people to make it there in time at less than half the final price, locked in for as long as you remain a member.

The aim of the site is to give you a new, completely white label piece of software that you can rename and call your own, and also show you how and what to do with it to start to replace your current income.

The price is ridulously low for two reasons.

#1 – As a thank you for being a subscriber.
#2 – The site is still being built and you should regard it as a BETA.

On that last one, the site is very definitely a Work In Progress, as there’s plenty of content in the form of tools, articles and videos I want to add to the members area as well as providing you with the software itself.

And…  One or two things might not work exactly as they’re supposed to.  We’ll resolve those issues as we go.

Your reward for your patience is a much lower price than will be available to other people when the site goes officially live.

As I’ve said previously, the price you join up with will be locked in for as long as you remain a member.

And as the site grows and new groups are introduced with new software products in those groups, you’ll get the opportunity to join those new groups at the same price you lock in today.

Okay that’s it for now.

Watch out for the email with the link for when the site goes live at 6.00pm today.

-Frank Haywood

Posted by Frank Haywood in internet business

PLR Software Of Your Own

I passionately believe that the best online business model is selling software.

That’s because the perceived value of software compared to say an ebook is far higher.

Well, after a few false starts, it looks like the new software PLR membership I’ve created for you is just about ready to rock and roll.

The new site has been created to give you a chance to fast track your business in 2010.

The idea is simple.  In order to build a business you need products, and a good way of getting those together is to use private label rights material you can put your name on and call your own.

It cuts down on your creation time and makes it easy to get yourself up and running.  You may even already be doing this with PLR ebooks, and that’s okay…  But there’s a bit of a downside to ebooks.

You’ve probably seen that everybody and his dog are now selling the same ebooks with their own name on.  They’re not even bothering to change the title, which is a basic mistake in itself.

Wrong, wrong, wrong!

I know that having your own source of software you can sell is MUCH better.

Software has a far higher perceived value than an ebook, but of course getting hold if it is the problem.  And even when you can get hold of it, you always end up buying it “as-is” with no warranty or support.  I’ve found that in nearly every case I’ve bought PLR software, I’ve had to scrap it simply because the software was never designed to be released as PLR in the first place.

What that’s meant to me is it’s been extremely difficult to take PLR software and call it my own.  It can cost a lot of money to take most PLR software and change even the title of it.  I know that because I’ve been there, and I’m sure lots of other people have too.

So in the end most people go with PLR ebooks simply because there isn’t a decent regular source of PLR software that they can easily adapt and call their own.

Until now.

Opening tomorrow at 6.00pm GMT (1.00pm EST) is my new PLR software membership site.

This is a joint venture between myself and a group of developers.

Each product we create is specially put together with its final use as PLR kept firmly in mind.  This means it’s written from the start with the idea of keeping it easy to edit either by the use of a language file, or if its a WordPress plugin, by editing a bit of text in the plugin.

It’s dead simple, and we show you how in the members area.

The product you get each month comes usually as either an untitled WordPress plugin or PHP script, plus a sales page design and sales copy, plus some basic documentation.  All you have to do is think up a product name and edit the bundle to reflect that new name.

Hey presto!  One brand new never-before-seen product, and it’s all yours to pretty much do with as you please.

We’ve even decided to make it effectively unrestricted PLR.  In fact there are just two very reasonable restrictions as to what you can do with the software you get from us.

#1 – You can’t sell or offer PLR to any of them.
#2 – You can’t offer them as part of a mass product membership, paid or otherwise.

The reason is simple – that’s what WE do.

Okay, I think that’s enough for now.  I’ll send you another email tomorrow about the membership site, plus some ideas as to what you can do with your new PLR software, so look out for that.

Then at 6.00pm GMT (1.00pm EST) tomorrow, I’ll send you the link where you can join.

Which reminds me…

As one of my subscribers you’re going to get the lowest price available locked in for life, but only if you’re one of the lucky 100 to get in.

What’s more, as I open up new groups within the membership, you’ll have the chance to join those new groups at the locked in price you get tomorrow.

NO-ONE else will get that, and they’ll end up paying double what you will.

It’s just for you IF you get inside in time.  I fully expect the site to be oversubscribed.

Okay?

More tomorrow, or you can leave a comment if you want to squeeze a little bit more out of me.

-Frank Haywood

Posted by Frank Haywood in internet business

Comment Bait Nickel Sale Now Live

The nickel sale for my brand new WordPress plugin “Comment Bait” is now live.

The price is starting at just $1.97, and rises by 5 cents with each sale.

The first 20 people to buy will get it at under $3.00.

You can get it here:-

Comment Bait

-Frank Haywood

Posted by Frank Haywood in internet business

Autoblogging 101

Good news.  I’ve decided to make this available to everyone for free.

Woohoo!

At least for a little while anyway.

The so-called “short” report I’ve been working on to go with the AutoBlog Plugin is now finished.

It all got a bit out of hand.  It’s as simple as that.

I started out intending to write 5 or 6 pages and realised while I was writing that it would create more questions than it would answer, so I just kept going.  And 40 pages later it’s done.

Actually, that’s not true.  There’s a lot more to be written on the subject, this is really just a flavour for it.  At some point I’ll create a much fuller product and go into AutoBlogging in more detail.

If you didn’t get the WordPress plugin in the nickel sale, you can still get it at a nice discount for another 2 or 3 days until I set up the proper sales page for it.  It’s currently $13.02 as I write this, and I’ll set the final price at either $17.00 or $27.00, I haven’t decided yet.

Anyway…

Here’s where you can download Autoblogging 101.

[LINK REMOVED – You can still get the report by signing up to my blog notifications on the top right of the home page.]

And if you want the plugin before the price goes up, you can get it here.

http://www.autoblogplugin.com/

-Frank Haywood

Posted by Frank Haywood in internet business