Posts tagged wordpress plugin
Defend Your Blog: Scan For Vulnerabilities
I hate to do it. Tempt the fates that is. After weeks of effort, lost time, missed billables, disappointed clients and frustrated days — I think I am free. Virus free that is.
And even as I am writing this post, I feel a tremor in my loins. A quick check of my site in my FTP program shows a cache directory I didn’t update! Run the file permissions recursed into subfolders and update the .htaccess file to protect the directory. Am I ready? Maybe.
18 Wordpress Plugins I Can Not Live Without
I have been promising a list of my personal *must have* plugins that I install on any new blog. Today, that promise is kept.
These are the plugins I install on every blog I create, regardless of niche or specialty. There are a few that I add to certain types of blogs that will won’t be discussed, but you can get more information on these in my book, the Ultimate Guide To Wordpress Plugins.
They are listed alphabetically, not in the order of installation.
Each of these plugins play nice with all the plugins listed here. No animals were harmed during the making of this list.
Redirection and 301 Via Plugin: Stop Leaking SEO and Visitors
Over time, your blog evolves (hopefully). This means category names change, posts are updated, files move or subdirectories are deleted. What happens when someone clicks a link to a post or file that is no longer there?
They get a 404 Error.
Even with a Custom 404 Error Page, you didn’t deliver the content they thought they were getting. So they might leave.
Reciprocity and SEO
- Image by swisscan via Flickr
Most folks would define SEO (or search engine optimization) as the science or ability to optimize your site or blog for the search engines. That gets you visitors, right?
When the search engines can find you, typically, everyone else can. But is there another way? Do we have to rely on the giant search engines like Google, MSN or Yahoo to send visitors to our sites?
Or do we?
Ultimate Guide To Wordpress Plugins
Would you like to know just how those *Top Blogs* are raking in visitors and money day after day?
Then you aren’t alone. In fact, there are over 70 million blogs on the web today, with a new 120,000 created world wide, every single day. That’s about 1.4 blogs created every second of every day.
And the More >
Ultimate Wordpress Plugin Blueprint
Okay, this is a tease. Sorry about that.
I am working on a new eBook, which is why I haven’t been blogging as much recently. Well, that and the other 10 blogs I manage. Sheesh. I gotta simplify.
But I digress.
I do private coaching with people just starting out with the whole *blogging * thing, and some More >
5 Ways To Reduce Blog Spam
Has this happened to you?
You wake up, eager to spend some time on your blog and stumble bleary-eyed over to the computer to see what wonderous activities have happened on your blog during your well deserved but long over due slumber. Blinking the *sleepies* from your eyes you login to your email client and see More >
Wordpress Tweaks
As I get more proficient with blogging, I am finding more and more really cool plugins and tools to help. One such plugin that I found recently was sooooo way cool, I just had to share it in it’s own post. (Come on, you knew I was a Wordpress Plugin Junkie, right?)
WordPress Tweaks is a plugin that adds a "Tweaks" page to your WordPress options. Each individual tweak can be enabled/disabled at will using a checkbox.
