Ok I just had to post this, as it’s too funny. I got a Google Alert this afternoon for this post, which mentioned one of my plugins as being listed by Web Designer Magazine. So, I Googled them, as the post didn’t link to them, and got this result: Notice something? I know I did:…
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Preventing your site from being indexed, the right way
It keeps amazing me that I keep seeing people use robots.txt files to prevent sites from being indexed and thus showing up in the search engines. You know why it keeps amazing me? Because robots.txt doesn’t actually do the latter, even though it does prevent your site from being indexed. Let’s go through some terms…
Rankings that make sense
We’ve written about rankings here before, for instance: how to track them with Google Analytics, part I and part II and even why they are worthless (the latter post by Eduard, who has, starting december 1st, joined us at OrangeValley!!), on top of that, I was using this rank tracker all the time! But today,…
WordCamp NL Presentation
I recently gave a presentation at WordCamp NL, and that presentation was fully recorded, you can view it here: [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7996120[/vimeo] Hope you enjoy it!
Google Analytics plugin updates
One of my most popular plugins is my Google Analytics for WordPress plugin, having been downloaded almost 700,000 times. This post is to let you know that this plugin is going to be getting quite a few updates in the coming month, the first of which I’ve just submitted to WordPress.org. There’s two reasons for…
Importing from another MySQL into WordPress
Sometimes data imports into WordPress can be a pain, but most of the time, it’s pretty darn easy. In a previous project I had to go through the trouble of outputting WXR files and then importing those, but it’s really a lot easier if you do a direct MySQL to WordPress import using the WordPress…
Smarter handling of WordPress plugin uploads
While preparing my previous post on new features in WordPress 2.9, I ran across a ticket in Trac for something I’d been wanting to do for a while: specify a subfolder of the uploads directory for specific plugins, like my Blog Icons plugin, to upload their files to. This way, the blog icons plugin would…
Geeky bits in WordPress 2.9
Thanks to Peter Westwoord’s WordPress Beta Tester plugin, this blog is on the 2.9 development track again, after having been off trunk for a couple of months. That plugin makes it really easy to switch any WordPress install to the development branch, either for the next “point” release (eg. 2.8.6), or the next major version,…
Gravity Forms Widget + Extra’s
I’ve been blogging about Gravity Forms before, and I still think it’s one of the best plugins to have been released this year, if not all time. In recent releases they’ve been adding and adding and adding incredible new features, showing that you really do want to buy the plugin and get all their updates.…
Thanks to Yoast’s WordPress loving sponsors
I wanted to say thanks to Yoast’s sponsors, for enabling me to continue to provide you with WordPress tips and tricks, and to allow me to work on some cool stuff that I’ll be able to announce soon! Advertise on Yoast, and get to that WordPress crowd This blog has a very engaged crowd of…
