By: Ann Smarty How tiresome is it dealing with the data, planning and other factors associated with content development? As a blogger, that is pretty much all I do day in and day out. No matter how much I love my job, it can be tedious at the best of times, and intolerable at the…
In our world of evolving technology we are always looking for ways to make the next exciting step. So, I am very excited to announce our new WordPress Featured Images In RSS plugin. After realizing that featured images from posts are not included in the site’s RSS feeds, I wrote code for many clients to…
If your web site features great photos that people would want to share, one of the easiest things to do that can increase traffic to your site is adding a nice Pinterest hover button to your images. When a visitor rolls their pointer over the image, a Pinterest button fades in, and when clicked, it will…
There are many hosts that offer 1-click installations of WordPress, but the 1-click install may cause problems that non-technical users may not even be aware of. I hope to detail the potential pitfalls with the typical 1-click WordPress install, and suggest that using the 1-click installation be avoided altogether, using WordPress’ built-in installation wizard instead.…
It happened so fast. Social media has crept into the mainstream over the last twelve years. Crept? OK, that’s not a good word. Let’s call it launch bombed. Like 007 landing at the party in a big parachute. While arguably social media in the form of two-way communication online was developed as early as the…
WordPress has come a long way since starting as a new blogging platform in 2003, with new update versions coming out every 1-3 months, and new major versions coming out every 6 months. One of the biggest concerns I’ve heard people have with WordPress is that it is not an enterprise solution for web site…
WordPress powers lots of web sites and blogs such as CNN’s blogs, and can be extended with plugins to power more common advanced needs like e-commerce or portfolios, but here are 3 surprising uses of WordPress that aren’t typically thought of together with the WordPress platform. I hope this inspires you to add more…
Images are playing a bigger part of blogging, with themes that highlight the posts’ featured images becoming more popular, creating great visually appealing layouts. Even more so with the popularity of Pinterest and Facebook sharing, which uses an image from the page or post. Even with various methods for including specific Facebook OpenGraph code within…
When moving a web site from one domain to another domain or subdomain, permanent redirects (known as 301 redirects to the web server) are vital to keep existing search engine links working. There are a few ways to do this, but I’ve found the easiest way is to set up the old domain to use…
How can you get website work done without knowing how to code or hire a programmer? The answer is plugins. If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog (not using the free wordpress.com version) you have a world of features available to customize your site. WordPress is a free, opensource blogging platform and plugins are tools created…
