Wordpress
New Wordpress Plugin: Cron Jobs Alternative
If you hate cron jobs or haven’t figured out how they work, here’s some good news. David Pankhurst developed a new Wordpress plugin that really makes it easy to set cron jobs.
A cron job is a time-based scheduling service in a Unix operating systems.
If you want some program or code to start at a pre-defined [...]
Wordpress SEO
In the past, I’ve published post about search engine optimization for Wordpress blogs, containing title optimization and generating keywords and description tags.
I’ve always implemented these optimization tips myself, because they worked like charm and there was no adequate plugin available that suited my needs.
Until now.
Because I’ve implemented the All in One SEO Pack.
Easy to [...]
What Do You Want From A Wordpress Theme?
As you may have noticed, I’ve changed my Wordpress theme during the holidays.
Not that I wasn’t happy with the old one any more. It worked perfectly and I was absolutely satisfied with it.
But I really wanted to get an answer to the question: “What do I want from a Wordpress theme?”.
I think one of the [...]
Wordpress Search Engine Optimization
If your blog displays archives, categories, tags and a search feature, you have to realize that the content in these sections is a duplicate of your original content shown in the ’single’ page.
Therefore it would be very wise to list an excerpt only and not the full posts.
To do so, find this line:
<?php the_content() ?>
and [...]
SEO, Wordpress and Other Gems
Today I want to draw your attention to a blog from a country fellowman: Joost de Valk.
Joost is a Search Strategist at the SEO department of a Dutch online marketing, advertising and seo company and he’s a Wordpress expert.
He also runs his own web design company called AlthA Webdesign.
Joost must be a great SEO expert, [...]
Widgets and Plugins
Guess what? This post is about widgets!
I just tried to log in at MyBlogLog. You now can’t get in there without having a Yahoo account.
No letter, no announcement, nothing. Great service.
So I used my Yahoo account to log in.
Then you have to merge your Yahoo! and MyBlogLog accounts, which is what I did.
Didn’t work!
Tried again, [...]
A Remarkable Wordpress Sticky Plugin Alternative
If you run a blog powered by Wordpress, you have an option to install a Sticky plugins that causes a certain post to stay on top of your home page.
There are several Sticky Plugins and here’s the one called Adhesive.
But …
I have never used them. Because I want to control exactly what’s happening. Therefore I [...]
Customized Title Optimization – Wordpress Plugin Alternative
A typical title in the standard (Kubrick) Wordpress theme looks like:
Blogname » Title of Post
Unless you explicitely like to brand your blogname, that’s not a search engine friendly title.
I’d rather have the title of the post as my page title.
As an option, it could be followed by the blogname, so that branding still takes place, [...]
