Wordpress and SEO

Latest news, plugins, themes, blogs and SEO about Wordpress platform and Website designing as a whole.

How to change the smilies / emotions in WordPress

WordPress offers a variety of native smilies automatically generated when you enter the shortcut to which they refer. For example, typing ":)" WordPress will convert the text into an image when the publication of an article for a smiley like this. Here is a simple trick that will allow you to replace default emoticons with your own what is sure to give a more personal character to your site or … [Read more...]

Create a custom menu location for WordPress

Since WordPress 3.0, there has never been easier to create and edit navigation menus . This feature is nevertheless complicated to use if your theme does not support the location of menus. In this tutorial, we will see how to define a site of custom navigation menu. In other words, it will be possible to indicate directly from the module and Appearance menu, where it will be displayed by … [Read more...]

SEO advantages of using url shortener services

There are several shortener services or shortening urls shortener of urls as, among them most known or important, are: bit.ly, tinyurl.com, short.ie. Some services are offered by big web players like Google as goo.gl with some sites like Twitter micro blogging with twurl or tweetburner. The aim of this article is not to mention all the URL shortener services but to try to understand whether … [Read more...]

15 Tips to secure your WordPress site

Some time ago we had a problem with our Wordpress site suffered a little hacking. So to stop these happening again, we applied some tips to help secure our WordPress site. Here are some tricks that might help you too. Updating and changing password: 1) We know it is boring but we will never repeat it enough, but a strong password is the best line of defense. Do not choose a traditional … [Read more...]

How to write great blog articles : fight blank page syndrome

We often hear from our fellow bloggers, "I am scratching my head to write an article, but can not find anything !". Here are some tips to write new articles everyday. Here are some tricks which we follow to present you nice writings everyday. Twitter: It is a source of information. Often known bloggers tweet or not information that you can develop in an article. Also, you can stay … [Read more...]

How to install WordPress on Windows 7 to test themes and plugins offline

Testing a new theme or plugin for developing them or just for normal usage in server is risky. Just imagine the risk when we try a new plugin or modify the theme's CSS file : there are always many visitors are surfing the website; it happens the plugin or the modification in CSS file was not done rightly and, as the Wordpress guy says "sky will fall on your head" : it really happens. We upgraded … [Read more...]

Blog versus forum : Present versus history

Like Coke versus Pepsi, BMW versus Mercedes, another debate arising now: Blog versus forum. We will discuss a brief history of both, present and possible future of both. Definitions Blog : A shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies; "postings on a blog are usually in chronological order". (Reference) Forum : … [Read more...]