When you post a poll in your post, you can decide whether you want to display the result to the voters using following steps:

1) Go to your dashboard.

2) Go to Manage–> Polls.

3) Select poll you want to edit or add a new poll.

4) In the right side bar, you will find an option “Poll Results”.

5) There are three options in this field:

• a) Show Result to Voters,
• b) Only Show percentage,
• c) Hide All Result.

6) Select the proper option and click on Save Poll.
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To make your whole wordpressblog password protected:

1. Look in Settings -> Privacy.
2. The last option is I would like my blog to be visible only to users I choose.
3. Check that button and click the Save Changes button.
4. And now your blog is protected from everyone.
5. You can - if you want - add up to 35 users who can access the blog.
6. A paid upgrade offers unlimited users.

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Plugins are the most common reason why things go strange or do not work whenever it comes to your WordPress blog. This is because they have been written by third parties. Nevertheless they offer some great additional features and functionality. One such “issue” is that your site may suddenly become very slow or it may become impossible to log into the WordPress admin area even though the rest of your site is running fine. If this happens, the first thing that you should do is visit the plugin author’s web site to see if there are any new versions of the plugin available. If you find that their server is down, then this may be the problem. In this case, you will need to disable the plugin until the other site is back up once again. You can do this by simply moving the plugin folder outside of your WordPress plugin directory.

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It is a good idea to use categories to power the “Must Read” and “Worth A Look” lists on the side of your WordPress blog. The code that you will want to use in order to do this will look like this:

<h3>Popular Articles</h3>
<ul>
<?php query_posts(’category_name=popular’); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<li><a href=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a><br />
<?php the_excerpt(); ?></li>
<?php endwhile; ?><?php endif; ?>
</ul>

You are going to want to add this code to your theme’s template file. Once you have done so, it will be time to add posts to it. From this point on, every time that a post is placed into that category, it will appear within this list. Of course, this can be further customized in any way that you desire.

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Most of the WordPress themes that are available are terrible whenever it comes to SEO. Thankfully, most of these problems can be fixed though.The problems that you need to be on the lookout for include:

1. 1. The sidebar code appears before the content. Since most pages use the same sidebars, every page will look the same to the Search Engines before they get to the content. If everything is working smoothly, then this is not going to be all that much of a problem. However, if you have a single glitch in your sidebar’s code, then the Search Engines are not going to be able to read the content and thus they are not going to be able to index your page.
2. 2.Your archive and category pages are going to show duplicate content unless you fix it. This can be fixed with a plugin or by simply setting each of these pages to display excerpts only. Of course, you can also set them so that they will not index the meta tags.
3. 3.H2 tags signify what content is of importance. However, WordPress uses them in the sidebars and thus they may be sending conflicting messages to the Search Engines spiders. This can also be a problem whenever H2 tags are used in the comments section and your blog has a lot of comments.
4. 4.The title tags are poorly set up. This is because there is no SEO structure whenever the pages or posts are saved. Therefore, you need to set the permalinks in order to create good SEO titles and URL’s, taking the page title into consideration first. You can find plugins to help you with this.

If you take a little time to pay attention to these things, then you will be able to create an extremely friendly SEO WordPress web site.

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