All Posts Tagged With: "Wordpress"
First Look At Wordpress 2.5
Wordpress is used by more readers of Connected Internet than any other blogging engine or content management system. Wordpress 2.4 developed into so many changes to the system that a Wordpress 2.4 release has been abandoned altogther. The new release will be Wordpress 2.5, and is scheduled for an April 1st release.
There is still a [...]
WordPress Plugin Refresh
One of my favourite plugins is the Related Posts plugin. However, then version I’ve been using hasn’t been updated for over a year so I decided to check the WordPress plugin site to see if some clever teenager somewhere has come up with an improved version.
Visiting the WordPress plugin site has made me realise [...]
ColorblindS Wordpress Theme
While content is king, most of us give quite a bit of thought to our presentation. After all, the look of our web site is a big part of establishing our brand, and we also want a design that is optimized for readers, crawlers and advertisement.
Early on when I was still using Wordpress it really [...]
5 Professional-looking Free Wordpress Themes
Great content can lose momentum if it’s wrapped in a brown paper bag. Your site design impacts content layout, advertising space and most importantly, it influences how your readers perceive what you have to offer.
There are no shortage of bad looking Wordpress themes. Many times I will pass by a site without really scratching the [...]
Is Akismet The Best Tool To Block WordPress Comment Spam?
I’ve just decided to switch back to using Akismet to protect this site from comment spam. In the past I wasn’t a big fan of Akismet, because it didn’t provide a lot of ways to deal with false positives, but I feel that I need to try something new as too much spam has [...]
7Jan2008 | Everton | 24 comments | Continued
Are You Directing Traffic Or Just Watching It Go By?
Your web site’s home page is going to see more hits than any other section of your site. Even people surfing in from Google will make your homepage their second stop if they are going to stick around for multiple page views. If your home page is all you are concerned about people seeing, then [...]
7Jan2008 | Michael Lankton | 6 comments | Continued
Design And Monetization
Good design draws a reader in instead of repelling them. Good design makes your web site appear more credible. Design is secondary to content, but it’s an important cornerstone of your web site’s foundation. Since design is subjective, mastering the design that works for your web site is a task you will never really consider [...]
20Dec2007 | Michael Lankton | 15 comments | Continued
New Eureka WordPress Theme Testing
I’m doing a bit of testing on the new Eureka theme over the weekend. There are still a lot of known bugs that the designer is ironing out, but I’m happy with how it’s looking so far. If you spot any new ones then please leave a comment below.
Overall, I think it’s looking pretty good!
From Nothing At All To PR4 In Two Months
In November the much-maligned latest Google Pagerank was released, taken from an October snapshot. My site was granted a PR4, after only 2 months in existence.
I can’t give you a guaranteed way to start a site and attain a decent pagerank in only two months. I can tell you the things that I did and [...]
Some Tips For Setting Up Your Sitemap
XML sitemaps are used to help search engine crawlers do a better job of finding and prioritizing all of your content. It doesn’t guarantee that your pages will be indexed, but it does assist the crawlers in determining what content you don’t want indexed, and what content you would like to see a higher priority [...]
11Dec2007 | Michael Lankton | 7 comments | ContinuedSubscribe Now!
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