October 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Whenever I install a new blog for clients, I always make sure that several essential additional plugins are installed and configured. Here’s my list of 9 Wordpress plugins that I install to make things easier for my clients, and easier for search engines to find my clients blogs. WP Spam Free WP-SpamFree is the worlds greatest (in my opinion) anti-spam plugin for Wordpress. No signups or registrations, no captcha forms, no configuration, and works with most comment forms and contact forms that I’ve ever used. ... [Read the full story]
November 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Moving on with Part III of our five part series on creating a jQuery accordion with tabs inside. Remember that our final goal is to create a page like this one that we created for Mox & Dom. It has tabs within an accordion. But for Part III of this series, we’re going to just get the accordion laid out so that it looks something like this: jQuery Accordion Demo Accordion One Accordion One Content goes here. You can put anything you want here Accordion Two Accordion Two Content goes here. You can put anything... [Read the full story]
October 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Wordpress has just updated it’s popular blogging platform to version 2.8.5, and is mostly security enhancements. There seems to be a serious effort by hackers to find exploits, holes and bugs in the Wordpress platform, but the global team of Wordpress developers are, as always, on top of it. With Wordpress’s one-click update, it’s so easy and I HIGHLY recommend that you upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress. Previous versions have major security holes in them that are actively being exploited en... [Read the full story]
We must keep in mind: WordPress is primarily a blogging software tool. It was created with blogging in mind. It is a Content Management System (CMS). Just because it is an easy... [Read more]
It is a known fact that 80% of the traffic that you will be able to generate for your website – and your blog for that matter – will come from the search engines. Hence, it... [Read more]