May 20, 2012
One problem that faces us as bloggers is how to keep users on the site, how to show them other content they might be interested in. The best way to do this appears to be a “related posts” plugin of some sort; but which to choose? For a long time, I’ve recommended YARPP (Yet Another Related Posts Plugin), but nRelate is a fairly new contender.
May 13, 2012
Writing a popular blog, getting famous, and then living off the Internet from a desert island beach are faily common dreams for many aspiring bloggers. With the advent of content management systems such as Wordpress which make it incredibly easy to get a professional looking websites up and running in no time – full of sophisticated features – the only thing really holding you back is your talent.
May 9, 2012
Are pre-set WordPress themes the sign of a low-brow publication? Is a custom theme the sign of a professional? These were the questions that used to plague me when it came to my personal website. I battled the questions for quite a while, but I just recently came to the conclusion that using pre-set themes – premium or free – is totally acceptable.
May 6, 2012
Posting recipes on a blog is something many of us do. This plugin called GetMeCooking makes it easy to manage and present your recipes in a nice and search engine friendly format, as well as automatically gives your recipe the chance to be listed on the Getmecooking.com recipe directory too, linking back to your site in the process.
April 27, 2012
Somewhere out there is a list with your blog’s name on it, where it sits, waiting to be targeted by hackers. When they get around to your blog, they’ll try various tactics to gain access to it. Fortunately, there are various ways in which you can protect your WordPress blog from hackers.
April 25, 2012
Whether you’re setting up a corporate website, a standard blog or just want to announce your presence on the web, the age of hand-coding HTML pages and CSS is long behind us. These days all it takes is to purchase hosting and install a content management system (CMS) and within minutes you can have a website that looks highly polished, displaying the very content that you wish to share with the world.
April 15, 2012
By default, the WordPress commenting system is woefully inadequate. You could switch to a third party system like Livefyre or Disqus, but if you’d prefer to keep everything in house or some other kind of customization going on, then posting comments by AJAX is the least you should do.
April 12, 2012
Music giant Spotify has recently created a play button that webmasters can put on their websites in order to play Spotify music. The play button integrates Spotify music with blogs, websites and more, leading to a more social web music experience. Webmasters and bloggers can add the play button widget to their page easily, which [...]
April 7, 2012
DreamHost has just teamed up with CloudFlare, a content delivery network so that DreamHost users can now activate a single checkbox in their admin panel to make their websites load significantly faster. ClouldFlare’s free offering includes a content delivery network with 14 locations around the world, improved security for your website, front-end content optimization, and [...]
April 4, 2012
The Tumblr-Facebook relationship just got tighter with a new Facebook integration update on Tumblr. Tumblr is now an official Open Graph Facebook partner, which means that your Tumblr posts, comments and likes will appear on your Timeline, News Feed and Ticker as what they are – Tumblr activity. Up until now, a Facebook-Tumblr integration did [...]
