Touching again on the topic I posted about a few days ago, I thought I’d mention a little more on moving from HubSpot to WordPress. This type of blog migration is the most common request I’ve had this past year. Initially they were kind of cumbersome, but now the HubSpot migration process is so streamlined [...]
WordPress Tips and Tricks
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I have moved a lot of websites to WordPress over the past few years. Many of these migrations have been migrations from other blogging platforms, such as Blogger or HubSpot, and others have been straight HTML sites that I converted over to WordPress. I enjoy this type of work. WordPress is a great platform for [...]
HTML5 video on Android is still a hot mess, and can be frustrating if you’re trying to make your videos playable on as many devices as possible. I’ve struggled with this in the past, and have settled on the following method to solve my problem.
I used the Universal Video plugin and modified it to add a link to the video for mobile devices. It may not be the most elegant of solutions, but as far as I can tell it’s been working great so far.[...]
I often get asked how to do some of the basic setup steps in the Thesis theme. Some of these questions pop up more frequently than others, so I decided to take 3 of the most frequent questions I receive and answer them with short video tutorials.
The questions I receive the most in this area are:[...]
Category pages are one of the most often neglected areas of any WordPress site. This is a shame, because if category pages are used in meaningful way, they can become a strong force in search engine rankings. The key to higher ranking category pages (according to Chris Pearson) is to add a unique headline and [...]
One of the best things you can do to help merge your blog posts together is to link to older content within your newer posts. If you have a hard time remembering to do this like me, then maybe this tip will help you. One thing you can do to automatically link to older posts [...]
Here’s a quick tip that can help provide a little bump in your search rankings: tweak your blog post permalinks to reduce the amount of words in them. Let me explain by giving you an example. You’re writing a blog post on a new company that sells green widgets and your desire is for this [...]
WordPress just released the 3.2 version of their software 2 days ago. This latest version includes speed and performance increases, requires a minimum of PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0, and drops support for IE6. Anyone wishing to upgrade their installation of WordPress should first ensure that their server fills the minimum requirements for the 3.2 [...]
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 [...]
I did a small update to the Universal Video plugin this afternoon. Not a lot was changed in this release, but a requested feature has been included. Now that iOS has been updated to 4, it should be safe to include poster images with HTML5 video and not prevent playback on devices such as the [...]