Category Archives: General Blogging

11 Principles to keep in mind while Designing a Great WordPress Theme

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This is a guest post from Claudia Sommerfield see here bio at the bottom of the post. While creating web pages on WordPress, the assortment of capabilities can make you a proud owner of one of the best designed websites on the Internet. However, if you forget to look into some simple basics, you may find yourself…

When Google Marks You As Suspect

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Did you know that when Google indexes your site and copies your content for the index, it also checks your site for malware? If you are marked as suspect,  you get a suspect site tag, and it will affect your sites rankings. A common side effect of a WordPress hack is malware being inserted into your site…

How To Stop A WordPress Plugin Auto Updating

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Here’s the scenario,you’ve coded up a change in a plugin.  Three months later you are doing your regular plugin maintenance (you are keeping your plugins up to date aren’t you?  Security reasons you know) and you overwrite the customised plugin ARRGHHHH!! All your hard work is gone, you will have to recode the changes and…

Share Worthy Content

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This is a guest post by Tommy Bussey The SEO Coach Social media is truly changing the way things are done online. Companies are beginning to truly wake up to the idea that it’s not enough anymore to just broadcast a message to an audience, and today, being successful on the web is all about…

What Is RSS

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Find out what is RSS and how it can be used on your WordPress site

How to Create a Favicon in WordPress

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This is a guest post by Rebecca Jones, see her bio at the bottom of this post Favicon is a small icon that displays bright on the browser URL bar, bookmark list or navigation tab. Favicon (the short form for favorite icon) in all its certainty will bring a drastic modification in your website’s outlook, if created…

Refreshing The Google Index After Pharma Hack

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The pharma hack is one of the most stubborn hack attacks I have to deal with on WordPress sites for my clients, I’ve written more about it here in my post The WordPress Pharma Hack Once you have fixed the hack, there is the lingering problem of getting Google to update it’s index and remove…

Before You Upgrade To WordPress 3.3

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STOP! Before you upgrade to WordPress 3.3 watch this video.  The update has a lot of changes and I’m seeing a lot of plugins crashing my clients WordPress sites.

The Business Of WP

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In this post I look at the massive business opportunies behind the free software WordPress

Refreshing Your Feedburner Feed

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Have you ever put something out there on your blog and realised it was a mistake. You quickly delete it and think all is well, only to find that the mistaken post has appeared in your Feedburner feed and you cannot get rid of it.