How to Clean Up Your Tags in WordPress

tags-cloudWordPress comes with this “tag” feature that allows you to tag your posts. While it is a great feature for you to categorize your posts, there is one problem though – there are no ways to organize them. Over time, as your tag list grow, it becomes very messy and your database is full of those tags that you either have no use for them or have used only once. If you find that your WordPress blog is running slower and slower everyday, cleaning up your tag list is definitely one of the things you should do to regain the speed and power of your blog.
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Split And Merge PDF Files With PDF-Shuffler [Linux]

pdfshuffler-splitIf you have two or more Words documents, you can easily open them in any Office suite and cut/paste the content to split or merge them. What about PDF files? If you have several PDF files that you want to merge together, how can you do it with the same ease? In Linux, PDF-Shuffler is the answer.

PDF-Shuffler is the frontend interface for pyPdf. pyPdf is a PDF toolkit built with pure-python library. It is capable of extracting document information, splitting and merging documents, cropping pages, encrypting and decrypting PDF files. PDF-Shuffler merely make use of the splitting and merging functionality of pyPdf and turn itself into an easy to use and useful application.
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How to Combine Multiple PDF Files With pdftk

pdftk logoAt first glance this topic might seem like an easy fix, but if you stop and think about it, there are few quick and easy methods for merging two or more PDF files. The desired end result is one PDF file that contains all of the information from the original two or more files without any noticeable breaks or ugly indications of a hack.

If the PDF files are yours, the intelligent thing to do is to combine them before you export them into PDF format. But if you no longer have the original documents, or you want to combine files that were not yours originally, such as bank statements, tax forms, etc., you will need pdftk.
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