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Have you been wondering how to password protect your pages on your wordpress blog? Let me show you just how easy it is to do.

1.     First you want to either start a new page or edit one previously written.

2.     Make sure all the content is added to the page you want to protect.

3.     Before you publish the page make sure to edit the Visibility feature.

Here is what will appear once you click Edit

4.     So next you will want to select Password protected and here is what will appear

5.     Next type in the password you want to use ( Make sure to write down the password you decide on using)

6.     Click Update…And Whalaa you now have a password protected page on your wordpress blog.

So for those of you who want to password protect their whole entire blog should check out this great tutorial written by Hacksar called "How-To: Password Protect Your Entire WordPress Blog"

If you use WordPress for your blogging platform then you know that the software was recently updated to version 3.0. With the new features means that there will be new themes. So I was checking out what free themes that are compatibile with WordPress 3.0 and here some great resources I wanted to share with you.

Mashable's 10 Beautiful and Free WordPress 3.0 Ready Themes – It's from Mashable so it is a must to check out

30 Smashing Free WordPress 3.0 Themes - I liked this site's list because it offered a variety of themes with different color selections.

WordPress 3 Themes – This site has a lot of different styles to choose from.

SpeckyBoy – Top 10 Free WordPress 3.0 Ready Templates

Here are a couple that I found on the WordPress.org site:

Magazine Style Theme

Suffusion

Today I found this really great WordPress Plugin that can turn your blog into a book that can be printed or digitally downloaded. It's called Anthologize. This awesome plugin has some really great features. Not only can you use your blog as the basis for your project, but you can also import content feeds from other sources. One feature that I thought was pretty cool was that you can add chapters to your project. If you are interested and want to find out more you can check out the FAQ's and the User Guide to see what Anthologize is all about and if it will work for you.

Here is what they say:

Anthologize is a free, open-source, plugin that transforms WordPress 3.0 into a platform for publishing electronic texts. Grab posts from your WordPress blog, import feeds from external sites, or create new content directly within Anthologize. Then outline, order, and edit your work, crafting it into a single volume for export in several formats, including—in this release—PDF, ePUB, TEI.

Please note that Anthologize cannot be installed on blogs hosted at WordPress.com.

DOWNLOAD ANTHOLOGIZE HERE

I think that Blog Challenges have become addictive to me. I will be joining The Ultimate Blog Challenge and I want you to join with me. The first one I did was hosted by Connie Ragen Green and I didn't complete it. So when I heard about the Blog Challenge hosted by Jeanette Cates. I knew I was going to complete this one. Even if I had to get up a little earlier before my daughter so that I could prove to myself that I could actually complete it. I must say that you have to be pretty disciplined, but the habit that you gain is priceless. See since the last blog challenge I have been posting on a regular basis. I am not posting everyday, but every other day seems to work best for me.

The Ultimate Blog Challenge is hosted by Michelle Shaeffer and Michele Scism. I have joined these two wonderful women on the previous two blog challenges I did. They have collaborated and have given us, bloggers another awesome opportunity to challenge ourselves, network and make some really good friends.

So if you are ready to make the commitment – then Join Me and the rest of us at The Ultimate Blog Challenge

I came across a great little plugin that I want to share with you today! It's called WP Responder and it's an email newsletter and follow up autoresponder plugin for WordPress. If you are looking to build your list this is an inexpensive way to start. Here are the features that WP Responder offers

• Create Unlimited Newsletters
• Gather Unlimited Subscribers for each Newsletter
• Create Unlimited Follow Up Autoresponders
• Send Unlimited Follow Up Email messages
• Create and Schedule email broadcasts
• Send HTML e-mail broadcasts with customized HTML templates
• Provide e-mail subscription to new posts on your blog
• Provide e-mail subscription to blog categories
• Use blog posts as follow-up e-mail through the Post Series feature.
• Send only excepts to your blog subscribers
• Import/Export subscribers from Feedburner/Aweber
• Find, edit, and manage the subscribers of your blog easily

I will be trying this plugin on one of my other sites to see how it works and if I will be using it or not. Stay tuned for my personal review of this WordPress plugin.