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New Wordpress Hack On The Loose

February 3, 2010
burglarize a wordpress site

I received an email from someone this morning asking me to correct a problem on their Wordpress site.  This in of itself is not unusual, but what I found when I went to their site was unusual.  In fact, it was cause for alarm.
The design issue was easy enough to fix, but I received warning [...]

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Backup Your Wordpress Blog Or Pay The Price Later

January 25, 2010
no wp backup

Being the resident computer expert in the family, I found myself over at my father-in-law’s house yesterday with the purpose of ridding his home PC from the icy cold grip of a few computer viruses.  What I had hoped would be a quick process turned into a lengthy and frustrating procedure that lasted until the [...]

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5 Quick Tweaks To Improve Your Wordpress Blog

December 18, 2009
wordpress

Wordpress is great right out of the box, but the default setup leaves many areas for improvement.  Here are just 5 things you could do to boost performance, SEO or usability.
Boost your page serving speed
You can use a caching plugin to speed up your blog, but you could also add a snippet of code to [...]

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10 Ways To Speed Up Your Blog

December 8, 2009
slow blog

If you’re anything like me, then you hate it when you are on a slow-loading website or blog.  In this time where high-speed internet is freely available, you expect your web browsing to reflect that and not resemble dial-up speeds.  Unfortunately, even with broadband internet, sometimes blogs do not run at optimal speeds.
If your blog [...]

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The Most Annoying Wordpress Plugin

November 23, 2009
homeless homie

What’s the most annoying Wordpress plugin? It’s almost certain that no consensus will be reached on this, but let me start by nominating WP Greet Box.
If you’re not familiar with the WP Greet Box plugin by name, you’ve probably seen it in action a time or two.  Upon entering some Wordpress sites you are “greeted” [...]

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Wordpress SEO For Beginners: The Content

October 14, 2009
blog content

This is the final article in the “Wordpress SEO For Beginners” series. This ends the basics of onsite SEO. If you missed the previous articles on permalinks, meta tags, or blog layouts I recommend reading them as well.
The content on web pages is of critical importance in how it ranks in search engines [...]

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Wordpress SEO For Beginners: Blog Layouts

October 13, 2009
seo blog layouts

This is part three in the “Wordpress SEO For Beginners” series. If you haven’t read the first part on SEO permalinks, or the second part on SEO meta tags, I heartily suggest you do at some time.
After a search engine bot crawls visits your site and crawls through your head section containing the meta [...]

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Wordpress SEO For Beginners: Meta Tags

October 12, 2009
seo meta tags

This is part two in the “Wordpress SEO For Beginners” series. If you haven’t read the first part on SEO permalinks, I heartily suggest you do at some time.
After the URL, one of the next things that a search engine will see when crawling your page is the meta tags. Meta tags come [...]

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Wordpress SEO For Beginners: The Permalinks

October 11, 2009
wordpress seo permalinks

People that are new to blogging tend to setup and develop their blogs in ways that hinder their search engine rankings. Getting your blog articles ranking better in the search engines doesn’t have to be a mystery; with just a little background knowledge a person can easily transform their underachieving blog into a search [...]

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