Wordpress is without question, the #1 blogging platform and content management system (CMS) available. For obvious reasons like simplicity, speed, flexibility. But what about all those subtle differences that you notice, but can’t quite put your finger on? It has a lot to do with AJAX or asynchronous JavaScript and XML. From saving changes to [...]
This question was asked in the Wordpress forum here. Since nobody had answered Michael at press time, I thought it might be helpful to find the answer and publish it here.
Solution:
Option 1) Use robots.txt to prohibit search engines form indexing a page. Simply add this to your robots.txt file. If you don’t have a robots.txt [...]
We have built a ton of Wordpress sites. Seriously, hundreds. Maybe thousands. Over time, we have developed a short list of go-to plugins. No matter what kind of Wordpress site we’re making (a blog, a community, etc.) we start by downloading the latest version of these plugins. In our humble [...]
In the dark ages, when pigeons delivered the mail or smoke signals were the most efficient form of communication, spam wasn’t a problem. It all started with junk mail in our letter boxes. Piles of advertising that took up space, time and energy. When electronic mail was invented it seemed like maybe we’d beaten the [...]
As this blog is very new, I would like to share some of the start up knowledge that I have learnt, or wish that I had thought before I began. 21 Surefire Tips for a Successful Blog Launch is also a very good article if you are thinking of starting a new blog and are looking [...]
Windows Live Writer is offline blog editing software and I really like it.
Why use an offline editor like Live Writer for posting to your blog instead of the built in editor:
1) Plug-ins – there are all sorts of plug-ins that make creating interesting well formatted posts a breeze, with all sorts of functionality, and integration [...]
