I found this article at impressivewebs.com. For the full article, click here. 1. Customize Your Sidebar and Keep it Consistent The sidebar in WordPress is a dead “giveaway” when a user visits your site. The sidebar will have default titles like “Blogroll”, “Categories” and “Archives”. You can easily change the text of these titles, and [...]
Using RSS, it can be fairly simple for people to steal your content and publish it as their own. Using a plugin like RSS Footer, doesn’t stop them from doing this, but it does put a link back to your website and that particular post. Most of the time, websites that are stealing the content [...]
This is a fun little plugin that was created by Matt Mullenweg that allows you to create a link that redirects the user to a random post. You can leave it completely random, or you can specify a category or post type. Allows you to create a link to yourblog.example.com/?random which will redirect someone to [...]
This article was by Kyle Eslick at wphacks.com – See the original here. While this blog will probably not get to caught up in covering search engine optimisation, there are definitely a few tweaks that you can make to your existing WordPress theme that will help optimise your blog. In this post I’m going to [...]
Unless you’re creating a blog that it purely for friends and family to view, the chances are that you want to be listed in search engines. By default, WordPress blocks access to search engines, but this can be easily changed. From your WordPress dashboard, click the ‘Privacy’ option within the ‘Settings’ dropdown. Then select the [...]
On 06.23.10, In Software/Clients, by Matt
Writing articles without any research, or on the spur of the moment, isn’t easy and rarely happens. Inspiration for anything usually comes whilst concentrating on other things. You may make a mental note to do a write up on something, but 9 times out of 10, you’ll (or I’ll) forget to do something about it. [...]
I was contemplating using ads on the site to help cover the costs of the hosting, but adverts are something that I really try to avoid using. There aren’t many people that come here on a regular basis, and I definitely don’t want to be showing ads to them, or to anyone who gets referred here via Twitter or Tumblr.
With this in mind, I set about trying to find something to distinguish between the two sources. I was looking for about 2 seconds, and I found something even easier to use than I’d hoped.
WordPress can be daunting for new users, but once you’ve used it a few times, you’ll come to appreciate just how flexible and powerful it is. A common misconception is that WordPress is purely a blogging platform, and while this is its primary function, WordPress is fast becoming one of the leading CMS tools. For [...]
WooThemes produces some really high quality WordPress themes (and also Drupal, ExpressionEngine and Tumblr now too), and while most cost a bit of money, there are a few free themes in there, but they’re actually of a very high quality! They actually offer 9 brilliant free themes, and you can find them here.
On 06.19.10, In Software/Clients, by Matt
This is a useful post from mashable.com that details ten great Mac apps that are designed for bloggers/micro-bloggers. The article is a couple of years old, but actually still very relevant. Briefly, the 10 apps are: Flock MarsEdit ecto Blogo Tumblr Dashboard Widget Mac Journal Blog.Mac iWeb + MobileMe RapidWeaver Fluid For the full article, [...]