What to look for in a WordPress Pro
As a follow up to the post on When to hire a WordPress pro, I want to talk about what you should be looking for when you go out and hire a WordPress pro.
Ask around. Word of mouth is the best way to find someone. If they get a good recommendation from other bloggers that […]
When to hire someone to help you with your WordPress blog
Let’s face it. WordPress is really easy to use. They have a quick install guide from WordPress.org and many hosting companies include a one click install option. Then all you have to do is pick a template, and you are off and running.
Once you have it up and going, then most of the upgrades and […]
WordPress SEO Tips from Matt Cutts
I was looking through some old notes and found one about WordCamp 2007. WordCamp is a two day conference held in San Fransico thrown by WordPress. To be fair, they are not the only Wordcamp, but they are the original and the biggest.
So my notes talked about a session given by Matt Cutts about white […]
A WordPress Read Contact Form
I could hand write the HTML / PHP to make the form work and come up with a safety to keep spam out of it, but this is WordPress and we have a community of developers that have written some great plug-ins.
…If it does not look the way you want with yours, you can fix it by hand or there is a list of styles that come with it for a whole lot of popular WordPress themes.
Permalinks 101
Came across this post on Weblog Tool Collection about permalinks. I cannot tell you how many WordPress blogs I come across that do not have a well thought out permalink structure.
This is not only really bad Findability and SEO, but it is just plain confusing to the people that read your blog and subscribe to […]
A WordPress SEO Beginner’s Guide
I was told about a post over on Joost de Valk’s SEO blog that has a good starting point on what someone who is a beginner in SEO and who uses WordPress should do to their blog.
I won’t spend time going into all of the points made, but I will say that the things that […]
To Ad or Not to Ad?
I have made a choice to not include ads on this blog. Not that I think blogs should not have them, but I just do not want to put them on mine at this time.
Why would I not want to try and get some sort of revenue through my site? I have this belief (right […]
Subscribe to Comments 2.1 and Comments in general
I found this great little plug-in for Wordpress Subscribe to Comments 2.1 [ Tempus Fugit | TxFx.net ] and I took the time to install it.
It installed easily and worked right out of the box with little to no problems at all. What it does is add a little check box that
sends readers an […]
RSS Feeds and how to use them
If you take the time to look at your blog’s stats (you are right?), you might be noticing that more and more of your readers are not coming to your blog at all but reading it through your RSS feed. At least that is what I have been noticing.
Don’t know what RSS is? RSS […]
Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers
After following a link or two, I came across this article on Blog Herald by Jonathan Bailey Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers
Spinning Spammers are described as people who are taking posts from real bloggers and then running them through some type of algorithm. This may involve using a thesaurus to find synonyms […]
