Feb 17th 10 Posted by Judith

WordPress Plugin Puts Your Best Foot(er) Forward

Have you heard the term splog? “A splog (spam blog) is a fake blog created solely to promote affiliated Web sites, with the intent of skewing search results and artificially boosting traffic.” What the owners of these “sites” (sploggers) many times use is software to farm copyright protected postings off other Blogs to post on these shallow sites. When they do this, rarely is... read more

Feb 15th 10 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: Update to the Latest WP Version (2.9.2)

Update for WordPress 2.9.2: I repost this information each time WP offers a new update so that you can have step-by-step instructions to easily update your WordPress site yourself. Wordpress 2.9.2 addresses a problem where logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. If you have untrusted users signed up on your blog and sensitive posts in the trash, you should upgrade to 2.9.2. ... read more

Feb 9th 10 Posted by Judith

3 WordPress Comment Producing Plugins

Do you want to get more comments on your WordPress site or Blog? Of course you do! Here are three plugins that will help not only encourage comments, but add a personal touch while making contributing to the conversation easier to track, follow and comment some more. I use all three here on my site and thought I would share them with you today. CommentLuv: This nifty plugin encourages comments by also... read more

Jan 27th 10 Posted by Judith

5 Steps to a Lean Mean WordPress Machine

WordPress has unique resource requirements and as with any database driven site, your database also needs to be paid a bit of regular attention to ensure everything is running at optimum efficiency. It’s not uncommon to find WordPress sites that are not being watched after properly being shutdown due to becoming CPU hogs. The first mistake made is that just because you can install WordPress on a... read more

Jan 20th 10 Posted by Judith

WordPress Post SEO Tips

Do a search for your top keyword phrase on Google. How may sites are noted in the upper right-hand corner of Google’s result? Rare is that number under six figures. So, SEO is a consideration that all site owners need to be aware of when creating content for their sites. Contrary to popular belief, SEO is something every site owner can easily integrate in their posts with just a little time and... read more