The articles listed below cover reviews of various WordPress plugins, how to make the best use of them and why you should not use too many. Click the headline to read the full article.
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 something to try if you have an article that’s being spammed with pingbacks. I woke up yesterday morning to find more than 600 pingback spams on a single article. I emptied the spam folder and half an hour later there were 22 more! Luckily Akismet was doing its stuff and sending these pingbacks to [...]
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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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Interesting question on Twitter today: “Can someone clue me in to backing up my files on WordPress” As the hackers get better and more numerous, it only makes sense to have full backups of your WordPress sites. Once your site has been compromised it will quickly be removed from the search engines’ indices and your [...]
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A short while ago I reviewed the W3 Total Cache plugin for WordPress. Careful chappie that I am, I always review the source code of new articles immediately after they’ve been published, to make sure all my on-page SEO stuff looks OK. So I was a bit surprised when I reviewed the source code of [...]
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Despite my commitment to reducing the number of plugins I use on this site, I just added two. But one is a swap out, so my net increase is only one. I’ll write about that one next time. This time I want to talk about the W3 Total Cache plugin. I’ve known about the increase [...]
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The first thing I do when I create a new installation of Thesis is install the Thesis-OpenHook plugin. One of the most powerful features of Thesis is the custom-functions.php file. It enables you to move different elements of your page around and add bits and pieces wherever you want. But if you’re not a PHP [...]
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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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