Wordpress Releases Version 2.8.5
October 21, 2009
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 masse by online hackers. Go Download Wordpress 2.8.5 Now! You can read more about the security updates... [ Read More ]
Video: Using Wordpress To Submit Podcasts To iTunes
October 21, 2009
A short tutorial on how to use Wordpress and Podpress along with FeedBurner to submit your podcasts to iTunes Read More →
Installing Feedburner Counts For Feedburner RSS
October 21, 2009
If you look off to the right side of the page, at the RSS subscribe section, you’ll see (well, at the time of this writing anyhow) the count of the number of RSS readers that I currently have. I had at first tried out the FeedBurnerCount wordpress plugin, but I couldn’t ever get it to register my feed count. So after digging a little deeper, I found examples that were similar to what I needed, but not quite what I was looking for. What I have below is the culmination of several ideas from many authors, and piled them into one conglomeration that works as of Wordpress 2.8.5. The first thing I did was to add... [ Read More ]
9 Essential Wordpress Plugins I Install For All My Clients
October 19, 2009
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. Prevents trackback spam, comment spam, and contact form spam. Just install and you’re done. ... [ Read More ]
Selective Stylesheets For Wordpress Pages
October 15, 2009
Pages in Wordpress blogs often times are created purposefully different from the rest of the blog, for instance, if one wants a separate sales page, or special event – Even certain posts might need to be look different and use a selective stylesheet. But how do you load up a special CSS file, without having to create special classes and ids that will muck up the original CSS file? The answer lies in selective loading of a stylesheet for only the pages, posts, categories or author pages that you want it to load for. And the great thing is that it isn’t only for pages or posts. Below are some code snippets... [ Read More ]
Headspace2 SEO Plugin For Wordpress
October 14, 2009
Many of you may not know this, but aside from running Blogging Emergency, my other life is that of an SEO consultant. So as you can well imagine, an SEO plugin for Wordpress is of paramount importance to me, my sites, and those of my clients. I’ve tried 3 or 4 different plugins, and every time, I come back to HeadSpace2. HeadSpace2 is simple to use, and provides a reliable mechanism to change meta data on a per group basis, or on a finer grained per-post basis. Titles of a page are about as important as important gets in SEO, so making sure that each page has the right title is important, but sometimes one doesn’t... [ Read More ]
Review Of The All In One SEO Pack Plugin For Wordpress
October 9, 2009
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 is absolutely necessary to build your web pages in such a way that they will attract the attention of these search engines so that they will display your site prominently well in results for relevant search engine queries. The science of winning the favor of these search engines has been labeled, quite appropriately, as search engine optimization (SEO). SEO entails a variety of techniques concerned with proper keyword selection, proper keyword... [ Read More ]
Why Newbies Should Choose Wordpress
October 9, 2009
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 website building tool, it does not limit us from using it to create websites. There are three flavors of Wordpress: “mu.wordpress.org”, “.com”, and “.org”. The first is for hosting several wordpress blogs under one domain. It is for anyone wanting to control and manage several blogs from one host or to control a network of related blogs like a university overseeing a community of teacher’s blogs. The... [ Read More ]
How To Recover Lost Wordpress Password
October 9, 2009
How To Recover Lost Wordpress Passwo After seeing the article title you are maybe asking yourself: Why somebody writes something like that? Everything what I need to recover my Wordpress password is to click one link and let the script to send new password to my email. If you are thinking in this way I am pretty sure you are one of the lucky webmasters who never needed to solve this issue. If you didn’t write new posts for your blog for longer time or if you checked the Remember Me field you didn’t need to enter your username and password for some time. In this case there is a big chance that you forgot them.... [ Read More ]
Use Of The Auto Hyperlink URL Plugin For Wordpress Blogs Will Save You A Headache
October 9, 2009
So, you’ve been writing on your Microsoft Word and you have become accustomed to the program automatically converting the URLs you type into clickable links. You’ve been posting in several forums and you’ve become used to the system creating hyperlinks for the web addresses you share without having to onerously type those [URL] and [/URL] BBcodes. You’ve been posting ads on popular classifieds on the web, and you have grown confident that the email address you type will immediately be hyperlinked and such can result to an increased response rate.Why, then, do you have to take a step backwards when it comes to... [ Read More ]
