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The more WordPress develops and grows the less I understand why anyone would want to build websites ‘by hand’ any more!
It’s an amazingly flexible and powerful platform, that can be used for any type of website.
This series of articles looks at different aspects of using WordPress and answers some of the more common questions I hear.
Click the headline to read the full article and if you need me to clarify anything leave a comment. I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.
When Thesis 1.7 was released I reviewed it and bemoaned the fact that I couldn’t make use of its SEO features and drop the All-in-One-SEO plugin. The reason was because removing the All-in-One results in all the META tags on all the articles on the blog being removed as well. That would mean I’d have [...]
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I wrote a post recently on how to insert an Opt-in form on a WordPress blog with no sidebars. It’s attracted a lot of views from people searching how to create an opt-in form on WordPress, so I figured a description of how to insert one in a blog that does have sidebars might be [...]
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WordPress 3.0 was released towards the end of last week and brought with it some major changes. The biggest is the integration of WordPress and WordPress Multi-User (MU) – previously two separate packages. Some others were: A new Navigation system, allowing you to add Categories or other special links to your navigation bar (the same [...]
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I took myself off on holiday recently and decided use WordPress’ scheduled publishing feature to keep the content flowing on this site while I was lying on the beach. I simply wrote some articles before I left and scheduled them to be published every other day while I was away. It’s such a useful feature [...]
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Post images – those thumbnail-sized images that I use at the start of each article – can help strengthen the impact of your message, as well as providing some visual appeal. But how to add them? I saw a question recently where someone asked the forum what plugins were available to help manage post images. [...]
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‘I can’t find any WordPress themes I like so I’m going to build my own’ is a statement I see a lot on places like Twitter. If you’re an ace coder (really ace) with a good understanding of SEO (really good), that’s a great route to follow. There’s also the option of using Artisteer, a [...]
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Here’s an interesting question I saw recently: my theme is not widget-ready, so how do I insert an opt-in form on my WordPress blog? There are a couple of ways of doing that. 1. Using the What Would Seth Godin Do Plugin This plugin was originally designed to offer different personal greetings, posted at the [...]
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One of my customer’s WordPress installations was hacked and turned into an attack site over the weekend. I got a plea for help on New Year’s Day because she couldn’t view her site or log in – she just got an error message whenever she tried to do either. When I reviewed the file that [...]
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Yes, it can is the short answer. I used to think of a theme as nothing more than a nice colour scheme when I first started blogging. As long as I liked the colours, and as long as it had enough sidebars, I was a happy camper. How wrong I was. WordPress themes have progressed [...]
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I was helping someone get their blog configured the other day and we came to setting up WP-Security-Scan – one of the plugins I do recommend. It takes you through some pretty straightforward steps that will strengthen your WordPress installation against mass bot hack attacks. One of the recommendations it makes is to change your [...]
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Back here I wrote about the benefits of using as few plugins as possible on your site. As is typically me, this has turned into a bit of a crusade (removing plugins from my site, that is). Here, again, are the reasons for my crusade: Plugins can slow down site load times, they may fall [...]
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The 1-click installation service offered by most hosting providers for various applications is wonderful. In particular, it’s opened up self-hosted WordPress blogging to a whole tribe of people who might have baulked at the manual installation. But there are some things to keep in mind. And please don’t take these as criticisms – they’re not, [...]
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I saw one of those VERY IMPORTANT READ THIS NOW posts in a forum the other day. It was all about how WordPress could get us banned from the search engines. I normally don’t go anywhere near posts with titles like that, but considering the mutual love affair between Google and WordPress I was intrigued. [...]
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If you read (and remember) any of my articles from a few years back you can take me to task now. Because back then I raved about plugins and added them to my WordPress sites at will. But I’ve changed my mind. Don’t get me wrong. There are some excellent plugins that do great jobs. [...]
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I see a lot of questions asking how to make a WordPress post sticky. A sticky post is one that stays on the front page of your blog so that, same as sticky posts in forums, it will always be displaid first. What’s the point of that? It depends on the content of your blog, [...]
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Many thanks to Jake Hyten for asking this question: how to set up the Google XML Sitemap Generator Plugin. Thanks for your question, Jake – and the steps follow with the greatest of pleasure Firstly, why would you want to install the Google XML Sitemap Generator Plugin? Because it creates a sitemap for the Google, [...]
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