When I add a generic Privacy Policy or Terms of Service to a WordPress website, I often forget to replace the placeholder website name and URL with site specific text, my solution? Instead I use shortcodes in the text. Continue reading
Protecting your WordPress website from hackers isn’t easy, they’re hackers after all and they’re constantly looking for ways to hack into your website but there are a few things that you can do to protect WordPress without having to call in expensive security experts. Continue reading
I spend my days programming WordPress powered websites but WordPress is only one tool that a successful website designer can use and more importantly it’s only a layer among many layers that a website designer uses. Continue reading
Hopefully everybody knows that a WordPress website comes with a great RSS feed right out of the box by simply adding the /feed/ to your domain (ie http://thisismyurl.com/feed/) but did you know that WordPress supports feeds for all sorts of other pages in the same way? Continue reading
If you’ve ever wanted to build an online newspaper, WordPress is the perfect tool for publishers of all sizes. The free, downloadable software package may have started out as a mere blogging tool, but it’s evolved into one of the most user friendly publishing tools available today. Continue reading
Sitemaps are a great way to tell Google about your website and pages or posts that it may not otherwise discover. Sitemaps are simply XML documents that help Google by creating a list of links on your website, and presenting them in a way that Google understands. By creating and submitting a sitemap to Google, you’re helping the search giant to find pages it might otherwise miss. Continue reading
If you didn’t get a chance to attend WordCamp in Toronto this year, the great team over at WordPress.tv has recently added my presentation to the system.
I’ll be honest, I was really nervous and had to rewrite a whole lot of the presentation at the last minute when I couldn’t get a cable. You’ll also note some great things … one, I call Howard Lindzon “Howard Stern“, also I talk a lot about sex.
BTW, a few links from the video for you … Chris Bavota, Ron & Andrea Rennick, Bill Erickson, Brendan Sera-Shriar and of course Otto.
A lot of very high profile websites are planning an outage this week in protest of SOPA, the US government’s perverse legislation which is essentially designed to hand the power to police the Internet over to corporate powers. If you don’t already know what SOPA is, there are plenty of news articles detailing it already but let’s just call it bad. Continue reading