Filed under: World wide web, Features, Blogging, Open Source, Social Software

So, you got your domain name registered, your hosting plan set up, and you’ve configured your brand new WordPress weblog. Or maybe you’ve had WordPress set up for a while and you’re wondering what you can do to spice things up a little bit? Look no further, we’ll let you know how you can pimp out your WordPress and give you that happy fuzzy feeling about your blog again. It is after all, part of your on the web identity!

Apply a new theme: This might be a daunting task, depending on how much you’ve customized your current theme. However, there’s no superior way to give your WordPress blog new life than to completely re-fresh it’s look and feel. There are a ton of great places to find exciting themes based on your tastes and preferences, but we would start at WordPress‘ site, Smashing Pumpkins, and BestWPThemes.

OpenID: With all the press about OpenID lately, woudn’t it be great to allow people who want to leave a comment on your blog to sign in using their OpenID? The WPOpenID plugin will allow you to this, as well as use your own OpenID as your log in to the admin interface of your WordPress blog.

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Filed under: Cards, Debt, Ripoffs and Scams

Low-budget television ads and promotional websites are full of tricks for boosting your credit score.

A piece in the New York Times took a look at a few of these programs which, according to the Times, the strategies often “include piggy-backing onto a stranger’s credit card and receiving pay stubs from a fake employer. The latest comes from a San Diego company, TradeLine Solutions, which claims it can improve a borrower’s credit score by adding somebody else’s top-notch credit history to the borrower’s history.”

But industry experts warn that many of the tactics for improving credit scores that seem to good to be true are — and often, they border on fraud and could get you into serious trouble. Trying to use other people’s good credit to improve your bad credit is definitely suspect, and the credit bureaus are working hard to crack down on it.

How do you know if a given method of improving your credit score is legit? Basically, anything that doesn’t involve you behaving responsibly with your money is suspect.

And if you’ve a poor credit score, you might not even be doing yourself a favor using shortcuts to a better score: It’ll just make it easier for you to get overextended again, in the same way that using a Sharpie to change the nutritional facts on the bag of Doritos is unlikely to help you get in shape.

To get in better financial shape by improving your credit score, check out Liz Pullman Weston’s great book Your Credit Score.

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