One of the most common issues with blogs that I critique is the WWW/No-WWW issue. That is where you can see the same content with both the WWW. in the URL and without. Doesn't seem like much of a problem? There is a theory around SEO circles that having content available on both creates problems ...
Category Archives: Development
How Many Columns Should a Blog Have?
Adam started a great thread over at the Authority Blogger Forum which I would like to open up over here; How many columns should a blog have, and why?For myself, I switch between 2 and 3 columns. When I have advertising, such as at DSLRBlog, I have a third ...
How I put that ebook download link in my feed
Every week I am asked how I put that download link in my RSS feed. Until to now I have had to explain that the solution requires a WordPress plugin that I hard coded. No longer! Damian, my WordPress hacking friend, has kindly released the plugin complete with an options screen. Now anyone can do ...
Converting a Blog From Drupal to WordPress
My friend Damian and I have just been moving DSLRBlog from Drupal 5 to WordPress 2 using instructions from D'Arcy Norman.While Drupal is a fantastic platform, I had problems maintaining it. It was getting me down particularly fighting the torrent of spam being thrown at it. Keeping on top of updates, ...
Gary King on WordPress Plugin Development
Gary has written a post about his "Group Writing Project" WordPress plugin that should be interesting to anyone involved in Wordpress hacking and plugin development. Most interesting is his description of a poorly documented Wordpress function, wp_insert_post() that ought to be very useful.The most important thing about the plugin is the wp_insert_post() function that ...
Automatically Link Text In Your Posts Using Blogroll Links – WordPress Plugin
My good friend Damian has just released his first plugin and it's a corker. It goes by the name WP_LinkIt and I think many bloggers will find it useful ... WP_LinkIt as a free simple Wordpress plugin to automatically convert text from your posts and pages into links from your blogroll. This makes it easy ...
My Goof of the Day and a Big Blog Upgrade Tip
I just majorly goofed on my blog. While upgrading a bunch of blogs to Wordpress 2.2 I overwrote my theme before checking my backup. It seems my FTP had not managed to transfer my sidebar so when I had a look at my handy work I had the default staring back at me.Don't do ...
Four More Essential WordPress Plugins
The buy me a beer plugin is not the only plugin I have been trying out recently. Here are some other Wordpress plugins you might want to try out Dagon Design Sitemap Generator - sitemaps are not just useful for visitors but can help your posts get indexed also. This plugin ...
Buy me a beer plugin – a cool twist on the old donate button
You might have noticed under my posts a little cup of coffee icon. I am trying out a plugin for Ankesh called "Buy Me a Beer Plugin" ... This WordPress plugin allows your readers to donate money to you via PayPal. The plugin is widget enabled. So the idea is if a reader likes your post ...
What are Blogs Good For? – Blog as CMS
In my last post I said blogs were an excellent content management system. A couple of people asked me to elaborate. What is a CMS and why are they a good thing?What is a CMS?A CMS (Content Management System) is simply a computer software package that makes it easy to create web pages. ...
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