Earlier tonight I had the pleasure of sitting in on Emily Grosvenor’s class on Beginning Blogging. Emily is a talented writer who runs a great blog at Desperately Seeking Salem, so I knew she would do a bang up job guiding others into the rewarding and frustrating world of blogging. A point that often comes [...]
WordPress Tips and Tricks
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If you are a WordPress user who also happens to use the Thesis theme, chances are you may have run into a snag if you upgraded to WordPress 3.0. Specifically, I’m referring to the inability to access the “Custom File Editor” of Thesis that happens after you upgrade. The error message that appears on your [...]
In case you haven’t heard, I released a plugin for easily embedding HTML5 video in WordPress blogs. I think you’ll find that adding video to your blog will be super easy with the aid of this plugin, and it will probably encourage you to use video more often. HTML5 video is a little different than [...]
The following information uses a newly created Adsense site I created on Burkitt lymphoma as an example. While the information is sound, your mileage may vary. Building a website that is designed to bring in revenue from the Adsense ads you place on it can be a worthwhile project that can bring you a seemingly [...]
Today I decided to try something different with this blog. I decided to remove the WP Super Cache plugin and just try server compression instead. And so far I am very pleased with the results. I tend to use the caching plugin on any WordPress site I set up. I don’t always do this because [...]
I received an email from someone this morning asking me to correct a problem on their WordPress site. This in of itself is not unusual, but what I found when I went to their site was unusual. In fact, it was cause for alarm. The design issue was easy enough to fix, but I received [...]
WordPress is great right out of the box, but the default setup leaves many areas for improvement. Here are just 5 things you could do to boost performance, SEO or usability. Boost your page serving speed You can use a caching plugin to speed up your blog, but you could also add a snippet of [...]
If you’re anything like me, then you hate it when you are on a slow-loading website or blog. In this time where high-speed internet is freely available, you expect your web browsing to reflect that and not resemble dial-up speeds. Unfortunately, even with broadband internet, sometimes blogs do not run at optimal speeds. If your [...]
What’s the most annoying WordPress plugin? It’s almost certain that no consensus will be reached on this, but let me start by nominating WP Greet Box. If you’re not familiar with the WP Greet Box plugin by name, you’ve probably seen it in action a time or two. Upon entering some WordPress sites you are [...]
This is the final article in the “Wordpress SEO For Beginners” series. This ends the basics of onsite SEO. If you missed the previous articles on permalinks, meta tags, or blog layouts I recommend reading them as well. The content on web pages is of critical importance in how it ranks in search engines for [...]