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I spend most of my waking hours working on all things WordPress, so I explore and test new plugins constantly. But when it comes down to it, I use certain proven ones over and over. Many of the must-have lists include the usual suspects: Akismet, All in One SEO, Google Sitemaps, etc. You know what [...]
It’s choice time. Time to decide which WordPress option is the right one for your blog or website. The only problem is, well, you’re kind of confused—and afraid you’ll screw up. One of the most frequently asked questions from my clients is, “What the heck is the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org? And should I [...]
“Title tags,” the title of a post, matter when it comes to the search engines. But often in our titles, we focus on keywords. And when we do that, the title we choose can be boring. It just doesn’t grab the reader’s attention. The custom title tag or alt title tag, can be a solution. [...]
This is a hectic week for me. I’m headed for the BlogWorld and New Media Expo in Los Angeles, where I’ll be speaking on how to make your blog user-friendly. Doing the final touches on my presentation, and writing a post, “What I Won’t Do at BlogWorld,” got me thinking about things people shouldn’t do [...]
You might have noticed that many WordPress themes now have widgetized footers. There may be two, three or even four areas at the bottom of your page where you can drop in some more widgets. When you design your blog, you add what you feel are the best widgets to include in your sidebar. After [...]
When the For Bloggers By Bloggers blog made the switch back to Headway, it reminded me of what attracted me to this theme in the first place. One of the major benefits was that I was finally able to customize my sidebars. Since then, other themes have done the same and there is now even [...]
All of us who love WordPress, love our widgets. You know—those little bits of code that work tirelessly in our sidebars and other places to offer useful and cool things? We sometimes find them on other sites and think, “Man, I have to get that one”. It’s like accessories for your car, your wardrobe, your [...]
If you are thinking of starting a WordPress blog, normally your first decision is to either put up a free blog at WordPress.com or choose to self-host it on a paid server. I used to try to explain it as a WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org kind of thing but, honestly, that is just way too confusing. Okay, [...]
I am a huge fan of contact forms on WordPress blogs and sites, and have been for years. If you go to my site and look at one of my pages, you’ll see what I mean. WordPress has some very nice simple contact form plugins, like Contact Form 7 and Simple Contact Form, but for [...]
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