Here are 3 simple steps to follow that will get a Favicon up and running on your web site in minutes. These steps are aimed at Wordpress users but could be modified to cater for other blogging platforms.
Create a Favicon in 3 Easy Steps
June 11th, 2007 · 4 Comments
Categories: Blogging Tips · Tutorials · WordPress
How to use XML Sitemaps
April 17th, 2007 · 9 Comments
A sitemap will enable search engines like Google and Yahoo to better crawl and index your site. The more these search engines know about your web site structure, the greater chance there is of increased traffic being driven to your site.
Categories: Blogging Tips · SEO · Tutorials
How to use Google Webmaster Tools
April 12th, 2007 · 8 Comments
Today I am going to look at Google Webmaster Tools. These are a set of free tools designed to make your web site more Google friendly and improve your site’s visability. They also provide several useful diagnostic tools to help diagnose web site problems.
Categories: Blogging Tips · SEO · WordPress
Math Comment Spam Protection Update
March 6th, 2007 · 6 Comments
It’s been almost a month now since I installed the Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin so time for the results.
Absolutely zero spam has got past this plugin! I’ve got the Akismet plugin still enabled in case any spam got past the math protection, but Akismet hasn’t even needed to break into a sweat [...]
Categories: WordPress
Why Is WordPress 2.1 So Slow
March 2nd, 2007 · 14 Comments
Ever since I upgraded to WordPress 2.1 I’ve noticed the WordPress administration screen extremely slow. Editing or saving posts is particularly bad.
I don’t know for sure whether the upgrade was to blame, or whether there is some issue with my web host - TextDrive, but the problem has only come to [...]
Categories: WordPress
Blog Updated to WordPress 2.1
February 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment
I’ve taken the plunge and updated my blogs to WordPress 2.1. The whole process went pretty smoothly, and despite my reservations, all my plugins appear to be working correctly. The only thing I noticed was that the link category IDs had changed, so I had to modify my sidebar.php file to match the [...]
Categories: Admin
WordPress 2.1 Plugin Compatability
January 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment
Everyone has been blogging about this today, but just in case you missed it, WordPress 2.1 has been released. This release includes several new features and over 550 bug fixes which you can read at your leisure using the above link. Technosailor has provided a nice overview of the new 2.1 release if [...]
Categories: WordPress
WordPress 2.0.7 Released To Public
January 17th, 2007 · No Comments
Hot on the heels of the WordPress 2.0.6 release comes another one, Wordpress 2.0.7. This is what it says on the WordPress blog:
“Recently a bug in certain versions of PHP came to our attention that could cause a security vulnerability in your blog. We’re able to work around it fairly easily, so we’ve [...]