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.
Why should you make use of the H tags in blog posts? Because, in addition to the SEO benefits they bring, they highlight a roadmap through your article. People skim read articles online, and if your article is just a load of unbroken text you’ll lose them before the 4th line. Reading unbroken text on [...]
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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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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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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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I hadn’t paid much attention to the previews of the new features to be introduced with WordPress 2.9. But, having upgraded yesterday, I have to say that I’m left with mixed feelings. I understand that there’s quite a lot that was designed to help plugin and theme developers, but for humble users (you and me) [...]
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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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