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 offers different tips and tricks on 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.
As I mentioned back here the Thesis theme applies a date stamp to CSS files when they’re updated. It does (did) this in order to ensure the latest version of your site is always displaid to visitors. Unfortunately that process confused the life out of the W3-Total-Cache plugin (because it had the effect of creating [...]
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One of the WordPress plugins I use and really like is WP-DBManager. For some reason, though, when you activate it for the first time you will see a red warning across the top of all your WordPress admin screens that tells you your backup folder might be visible to the public. This can be a [...]
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I read a post on the Warrior Forum the other day bemoaning what the poster saw as the design limitations of WordPress. While WordPress, which is a Content Management System, does have some functional limitations, it does not have any design limitations. The reason is simple: WordPress itself doesn’t touch the design aspect of the [...]
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The old chestnut that WordPress ‘creates duplicate content issues’ keeps coming up. Someone even wrote it to me in an email recently. Let’s be clear: WordPress does not create duplicate content problems. What WordPress does is allow the same content, on the same site, to be accessed via a number of different URLs (or permalinks): [...]
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I had to buy a couple of things for the flat today and I went to the only place I know that had what I needed at the right price and the right quality: Ikea. But it was a trade off: price and quality vs convenience and experience, because Ikea stores frustrate the life out [...]
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Every WordPress upgrade brings howls of anguish on Twitter and other forums as installations that were working perfectly well prior to the upgrade suddenly crash. Some people ignore WordPress upgrades in order to avoid the problems – if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. But that’s not smart because many of the upgrades are designed [...]
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I moved this site from the /blog folder to the root folder recently. The main reason was to tidy up this domain and, in the process, improve its focus. That, I hope, will improve the effectiveness of its SEO. I’ve had this domain for 5 years and during that time I’ve had different folders and [...]
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