Using social share buttons in WordPress is almost a must have for search engine optimization and getting traffic for your website. Having a quick and easy way for your visitors to follow you on those social networks is just as important. I have used several plugins to get this working and most of them do a great job. AA's Digg Digg Alternative I used the Digg Digg Alternative as one … [Read more...]
Even though some people will tell you that WordPress is insecure, you should know that the core of WordPress is one of the most secure open source content management systems there is today. Even the latest hack attempts were not targeted to the software itself. It was an attack by sending brute-force password hack attempts for default users names and weak passwords. So make sure you … [Read more...]
One of the main ways for your visitor to navigate through your website is the Sidebar. In the sidebar of your WordPress layout, you can place a lot of widgets. However, what you really need in there are the things that will help your visitor to get a clear image about the topic your website is about. Besides that it should show them how they can find what they are looking … [Read more...]
WordPress has come a long way since its beginning, it was created as a blogging platform but is now way beyond that. You can easily make WordPress look like a website with just a few configuration and theme options. With the latest versions, especially version 3.0 where the custom menu feature was introduced you can use it for any kind of website. Using WordPress custom menu's you can … [Read more...]
The recent versions of WordPress offer you the new Custom WordPress Menus function to set up a navigation menu. The Menus can be created with pages and categories, and include hyperlinks. You can also sort them anyway you want. These new WordPress menus are very flexible and are especially useful if you want to create a static website. You can have different custom menus to show different … [Read more...]
If you login to your WordPress website you will see a notice about the new WordPress 3.4 release. If you want to start a new WordPress website, this release is the new stable version. There are several great improvements in this release, like the theme preview function. With this option, you can check how your website would look with a new theme, and you can change configuration options … [Read more...]
Block WordPress Comment Spam
There is one things that most new WordPress users want to do after few days: Block WordPress Comment Spam You will understand after your site has been running for a couple of days. Comment spam is a black-hat tactic to getting back-links to a website. Most of those fake comments are done via spam-bots (small programs) that inject comments into the comment field of your blog … [Read more...]