07.24.07 Posted in How To, Wordpress by jdmacor
An essential for any aspiring theme developer is a local install of WordPress. There are plenty of benefits to doing so and there are also pitfalls if you don’t. I will tell you about the pitfalls in a second, but before that, I want to tell you 5 great reasons why you should use a [...]
07.20.07 Posted in Noteworthy, Wordpress by jdmacor
You have just installed WordPress for your brand new blog and you are ready to start writing that killer content and make tons of money, right? WRONG! As fantastic as WordPress is right out of the box, it is far from complete. Even for the most basic blog, you really need to install some key [...]
06.20.07 Posted in Wordpress by jdmacor
Now, I know that John Chow just posted about this on his blog, but I actually found this last week! I knew I should have posted about it then… Either way, this is my latest favorite plugin! It accomplishes numerous SEO functions that I was using several plugins for! You get tagging, meta-tagging, optimized titles, [...]
06.10.07 Posted in How To, Noteworthy, Wordpress by jdmacor
A common problem for bloggers is that you do all kinds of work to get readers to just look at your post, only to have them leave right after that. In fact, you could call it the “Stumble” effect. Just like the Stumbleupon plugin, a reader glances over your post, passes on judgment and then [...]
How To Reduce Your Comment Spam
06.04.07 Posted in How To, Wordpress by jdmacor
A man can only take so many comments demanding that he enlarge his penis; who are these people and where are they getting this information from?! False information, that is… At any rate, nothing spoils my day more than comment spam. As a blogger, the most exciting part of the whole thing is seeing that [...]