Today, I checked an item off on my todo list that had been on there way too long: I created a print style sheet for this site. Every time I write an article that is longer than 5 paragraphs, I get emails from readers asking for a better print style sheet. Until just a few [...]
Yoast tweaking websites
This blog is based on WordPress, and customizing and SEO-ing it is a constant process, so I blog about that quite often. After all, good SEO on this blog makes for lots of visitors, which is exactly what I want of course.
WordPress 2.5 Plugin Settings Pages Style Guide
Fellow plugin authors beware! Your plugin settings pages might look pretty awful in WordPress 2.5′s new admin theme… Currently, I’m working on making all my plugins work and look good in it, and I had to do a bit of research. There’s a page on migrating plugins and themes on the WordPress codex, which can [...]
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Looking for SEO aware WordPress developers
I’ll make it quick and easy: I’m getting too much requests for WordPress related work (plugins, themes, etc.). I don’t mind because I love to cherry pick, but I’d like to have a few people whom I could refer too. So please, if you’re a WordPress developer and you’re aware of SEO (hey, if you [...]
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Experimenting with tags
As some of you might have noticed, I’ve put up a tag cloud on the homepage of this blog. The reason for that is that when checking my analytics, I was finding that my older posts were getting lower amounts of traffic. Now that wasn’t really a problem with the first posts I wrote, as [...]
Move your WordPress blog to a new domain in 10 steps!
A friend recently asked me how to move his blog, which is on /blog/ on his domain, to a new domain on it’s own. The steps are easy, but have to be taken in the right order to make sure you’re not annoying your users and the search engines: Put up a robots.txt on the [...]
WordPress plugins and SEO mailing list
I’ve decided to start a weekly mailing list on WordPress plugins and SEO, which will contain: Info on new cool plugins I’ve come across or have coded myself SEO tips for WordPress Speed optimization tips for WordPress Tips and tricks for increasing the conversation on and the community around your blog The tips and tricks [...]
A better SlideShare WordPress plugin
After doing my post about RIMC, I was kind of annoyed with the SlideShare plugins out there, as they had me change the default embed code, instead of just using it, so I’ve built a new SlideShare WordPress plugin. It allows you to set a default width as well, so it will automatically size all [...]
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Ads Widget for WordPress
A quick post to show you a widget I’ve been working on for the last few days: a widget to ad ads to your sidebar, which I’m actually using in the sidebar. You can see the back-end interface for it on the right. It has a few options: randomize the ad positions shows an “advertise [...]
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Making money online – increasing profits
Making money online isn’t too hard, if you’re a web developer like me. You just sell yourself for a certain hourly rate and if you’re any good, projects will flow in. That’s what’s been happening for the last year for me at least. I started AlthA Web Design, and I’ve been swamped with work since. [...]
Upgrade your WordPress to 2.3.3!
WordPress just released a critical upgrade, 2.3.3, and you should really update now. The flaw that was found is the solution to a burning question I’ve had for a few times lately: how the **** are people editing posts on one of my blogs. (More specifically, css3.info, which is being syndicated at w3.org, and has [...]
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