The articles listed below cover tips and techniques on setting up and using WordPress as the platform for your website. Click the headline to read the full article.
This video is for people new to WordPress and goes through the steps to write and publish your first post. Writing and publishing pages is the same except for two things: You start on the ‘Add New Page’ screen (not the Add New Post screen) You don’t assign categories and tags Once you’ve written your [...]
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This video is designed for people new to both WordPress and to working online. It covers the basic SEO details that you should fill in for each new WordPress post and page you write, in order to get more search engine traffic. I use the Thesis theme, so the screenshots are Thesis screens, but the [...]
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I often see questions asking how to convert an HTML website to WordPress and, back here, I covered some of the things you need to think about before doing so. Anyway, I recently converted an old HTML site to WordPress so I figured I’d set out the step-by-step process – so here it is: Overview [...]
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The WordPress search function has never been good. And yet providing a good search function is a great way to keep readers on your site for longer. I wrote back here about why I set up Google Custom Search on this site. It was pretty much a no-brainer really: if you can get the leading [...]
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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 routes: tags, categories, [...]
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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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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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Here’s a question I saw today: how do I move my WordPress site to a new server? This can be a fiddly exercise with a number of steps to go through, and you should avoid it if you possibly can. However, on the basis that you can’t avoid it, here’s the answer. Note that the [...]
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