The WordPress database is often overlooked in any type of optimization process. This is a shame because the database is the core of any WordPress site and its health and wellness will carry over to other parts of your blog. There really is no set schedule on how often you should optimize your database, but [...]
August 2010
They say WordPress is pretty SEO friendly right out of the box, but often there is still room for improvement. Mistakes are often made that can hinder or severely harm the overall search engine rankings of a WordPress site. 1. No canonical url set When visitors come to your site can they get there from [...]
With the increased popularity of online video combined with the massive adoption of mobile internet devices, html5 video is quickly becoming the desired standard in online video. Even though html5 video could (and should) replace flash video in most cases, its adoption among bloggers is slowed in part simply because most bloggers find embedding html5 [...]
The other day I was contacted by someone asking me to take a look at their blog. The blog itself was fine, it was the backend that was a problem; the user had no way of adding plugins or changing settings. That alone tipped me off as to what the problem probably was, and I [...]
I recently built a WordPress site using the Thesis theme for someone that incorporated a feature you don’t see all that often. The client had requested that his site be setup a certain way, with a welcome page as the home page, a video page that would show only blog posts from the “Video” category, [...]
SEOPressor has been heavily promoting their “Shockingly Effective, Tested and Proven WordPress SEO Plugin” on Twitter for a little while now, and after taking a quick peek at their sales page I just felt the urge to dish out my 2 cents about it. This is complete bullshit. From what I can tell, SEOPressor is [...]
There are well over 10,000 plugins available for use on WordPress sites, some more useful than others. Some plugins that perform very simple tasks may be useful for beginners, but I would still go so far as to say that the following 5 types of WordPress plugins should be avoided. Google Analytics There are almost [...]
If you are a user of the popular “Subscribe to Comments” plugin by Mark Jaquith, you may have some issues with the output in your administration panel. To be more specific, the subscribers and posts number may be reversed and you may get a “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page” message [...]
Millions of websites run on WordPress, and almost all of them run slower than they have to. If you are suffering from a slow WordPress site, there are several things you can do to boost its performance. And even if your site is pretty responsive, chances are there is still room for improvement. Most everything [...]