How to Set Up a Proper 404 Error Page on Your Wordpress Blog
The humble 404 has been with us since the tubes that make up the internet were first plumbed in.
Working With Custom Database Tables In WordPress
A quick scan of the Best of WordPress Plugins page will reveal some of the many unique and niche ways you can make your blog work harder. What if you already have a database of say, customer information, but you want to be able to query that data and display it within a WordPress template? Today I’ll be showing you just how to do that, safely within the WordPress engine.
Setup A Proxy On Your WordPress Site To Bypass Filters & Firewalls
Everyday the onslaught to our freedom and censorship of the internet continues to escalate, but you can help. If you want to ensure certain sites remain available, then look no further than a new, free Wordpress plugin called RePress. It allows you to quickly and easily setup a web proxy without complicated programming.
Start A Recipe Blog With The Recipress Wordpress Plugin
Recipress is a free, professional quality plugin for adding beautifully styled recipes to your blog posts. Since I’ve been told my Jalapeño bread is to die for, I thought maybe it would be worth adding the recipe to my Self Sufficiency blog - and this was the perfect solution to do that. Let’s take a look at this fantastic plugin, and a quick walkthrough on how to add and display your recipes.
How To Turn Wordpress Into A Life Stream Of All Your Online Blogs
For most of us, the amount of digital content we produce is staggering - Twitter, personal blogs, professional blogs - but bringing all of that in to one central place is a real challenge. Having recently purchased my own vanity domain of jamesbruce.me to act as a central hub for my articles and web content, the task fell upon me to find a suitable way to aggregate it all - commonly called a life stream.
5 Things You Might Not Have Known You Could Do With Wordpress
Being the most versatile blogging system ever, it’s no surprise that developers have twisted and pulled Wordpress into becoming so much more through the clever use of plugins. If you thought Wordpress was only for blogging, think again. Here’s 5 others ways you can use the Wordpress system, with free and premium choices where available.
How to Do an Automated Remote Backup of Your Wordpress Blog
This weekend, my website got hacked for the first time ever. I figured it was an event that was bound to happen eventually, but I still felt a bit shocked. I was lucky that I had a backup of my website but it made me realize just how dangerous it is to make such infrequent backups. It also made me realize the extent of the damage that could have occurred if the database itself had got hacked.
3 Ways to Encourage Comments on Your Wordpress Blog
Getting comments on your blog is a great motivator to keep you going on with the long haul that is blogging. Just knowing that someone is out there, appreciating your work feels great, but not everyone is willing to comment or even has something to say. Let’s take a look today at 3 ways to encourage users to comment through the clever use of plugins.
Get A Security Makeover For Your WordPress Site With WebsiteDefender
With Wordpress popularity ever increasing, security issues have never been more relevant - but other than simply keeping updated, how can a beginner or average level user stay on top of things? Would you even know if your blog has been hacked? A helpful new service from WebsiteDefender aims to solve this problem. Is it worth the effort though?
Build Loyal Visitors To Your Website Or Blog With The Help Of PunchTab
No blog will have a meaningful life without any visitors, so getting people to come and read your web writing is essential for your blog to survive. While getting many people to visit your blog is fairly achievable, turning them into loyal visitors is a bit more tricky. Producing great content is one way to achieve that. But you need more than quality content to keep your readers coming back for more.
3 Easy Methods To Live Blog Events
Whether you're attending a conference, taking part in an event, or even watching a football match, there are various ways you can share your comments, thoughts, images and much more. While Twitter has become immensely popular for live tweeting just about everything you could imagine, if you're looking for something a little bit more robust, there are three free services that have been built specifically for this purpose.
2 New Cool Wordpress Plugins & Understanding The Wordpress Theme Structure
This week I'll be a taking a look at a superior alternative to the often praised All-In-One SEO; a plugin that gives you the power of a Wordpress publishing system but allows you to output static HTML files for hosts that don't support PHP; as well as showing you how to make sense of some of the template files contained in your theme directory.
How To Configure The Various W3 Total Cache Plugin Settings For Your Wordpress Blog
A while ago I talked about the benefits of installing the W3TC plugin on your Wordpress blog in order to speed it up with various caching, but some readers were understandably a little wary about the plugin without some sort of tutorial to help them. Luckily, the defaults will work well for 90% of us. Follow the guide, and even with some basic settings you're going to see some form of speed improvement.
Make Your Wordpress Blog iPad Friendly with Onswipe
More and more people who access the Internet are doing so from an iPad or another tablet. So if you have an online presence, it would be a good idea to adjust the interface of your site to be tablet friendly. Automattic has realized this and have added a feature that will optimize its 18 million blogs for tablet viewing.
3 Ways The W3 Total Cache Plugin Can Speed Up Your Wordpress Blog
Self-hosted WordPress is a fantastic system, no doubt about it. But it can become a little bloated resulting in a slow load time.