How To Update Your Readers When You Post A New Blog

Posts Tagged ‘WordPress’

28 Oct 2010

If you’re blogging you want readers to be able to keep up with what you’re writing, right? Here’s an overview of some of your options for enabling readers to subscribe, along with pros and cons of both. Via RSS feed RSS forms the basis of most updating systems. Every blog has an RSS feed (simply [...]

Don’t Leave Your SEO To A Theme or a Plugin

In: seo

13 Sep 2010

In the WordPress community, especially amongst new users, a lot of emphasis seems to be placed on themes and plugins as crucial factors in SEO. Theme companies compete for bragging rights on whose is the most ‘SEO-friendly’ while website owners are frustrated that they are not getting the search engine traffic they expected despite having [...]

WordPress For Business Presentation

In: WordPress

13 Nov 2009

I was kindly invited by the SoCal WordPress Meetup group, run by Natalie MacLees, to give a presentation at their next meeting in Los Angeles on November 19th. It’s free, but you must RSVP at Meetup.com. I’ll be talking about using WordPress for business – marketing, SEO, relevant plugins etc. There will be lots of [...]

How To Get Rid Of Captions In WordPress

In: WordPress

31 Oct 2009

In version 2.6 WordPress introduced the captions feature which meant that when you uploaded an image, the text you entered as the ‘alt’ text, previously only visible to search engines, was now used as a caption under your image, visible to all. I personally have found this quite annoying and should you agree, here’s a [...]

What Are Pingbacks And Trackbacks And How Do I Use Them?

In: Blogging Basics

22 Sep 2009

The terms pingbacks and trackbacks are used almost interchangeably, and are pretty much the same thing on the surface. They actually utilize different technologies and originated for different purposes, but these days they are becoming more intertwined. I’m just going to call them trackbacks for the purpose of this post. What are they? Essentially both [...]

154(5) Comments2009-09-22+16%3A16%3A05Lucy
Tags: pingback, trackback, traffic, WordPress

Older Entries

LucyBeer: Lol! Glad to be of use!!! [...]

Julie: Wow Lucy. You read my mind! Just starting to do a landing page for new site and was struggling with [...]

Lucy: thanks! [...]

LucyBeer: Hi Rajib. If you can post the code you are using and what you are trying to change, maybe I can help [...]

Rajib Kumar: Hey Lucy Beer, nice customization for thesis comment. But, comment box customization are not working [...]

Web Training Wheels

Posts Tagged ‘WordPress’