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Killer Performance Tips from the Expert
My business & podcast partner Frederick Townes, who also happens to be the CTO @ Mashable.com, has finally finished a long awaited (by me at least) post covering lots of the performance tips he’s applied at Mashable (I hope you’ve seen their awesome redesign) and in other projects to make the sites faster despite having [...]
Press This with Aaron Brazell
Last nights Press This featured a very pleasant conversation with Aaron Brazell, also known as Technosailor, the author of the upcoming WordPress Bible. We discussed a lot of things, as usual, and as I promised in the comments on my previous Press This update, I’ve kept more notes so I can do this post and [...]
What are “custom taxonomies”?
WordPress, with version 2.3, introduced the concept of Tags. As described by Wikipedia, a tag is “a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information”. This meant WordPress had a hierarchical way of classifying information (categories), and a non hierarchical way of classifying information. As far back as in 2006, people were discussing [...]
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 [...]
Conditional WordPress widgets with rich editable text
For the “About Joost” widget shown on the homepage of this site, I created a new widget. It has two great features: it shows just on the homepage, and the content and title are drawn from a page, so that I can edit it as a normal page with the richtext editor in the backend [...]
Tracking Outbound / Affiliate Links with getClicky
I use Clicky for most of my day-to-day tracking and analysis, only using Google Analytics for the harder analyses. One of the things Clicky can do most wonderfully is track outbound clicks. There’s an issue however when you start routing your affiliate links through a script or on-site redirect. I redirect mine through /out/ here [...]
On WordPress Dashboard Widgets
I was one of the first plugin developers to add a dashboard widget to your dashboard when you installed one of my plugins. I’m hoping people will follow me in doing the reverse as well. While it generates traffic, it doesn’t generate sales. Let me show you. When I added mine, in the beginning, it [...]
Data Privacy
Your Facebook user ID, username, other basic details and the names and ID’s of pages you manage may be stored by Yoast.com for the purpose of debugging and improving the behavior of the application. They will never be used for anything else outside of Facebook and Facebook widgets, nor be sold or given to other [...]
GoDaddy’s spammy link building techniques
Over the last few months, I’ve seen GoDaddy rise up in the rankings for a lot of hosting related terms. At first I suspected they were finally using their very strong domain in a smart way, but then I noticed they ranked for terms I know you can’t rank for without a lot of external links, no [...]
Genesis
This Genesis Theme Review shows that Genesis is one of the most popular WordPress Theme Frameworks and there’s a good reason for that. I love the flexibility and quality of its code, which is why it gets a full 5 out of 5 stars.
WordPress SEO Plugin
Yoast's all in one SEO solution for your WordPress blog: SEO titles, meta descriptions, XML sitemaps, breadcrumbs & much more.
