Being a web developer for some time now, I can say I’ve made a few mistakes along the way that I learned to avoid. (more…)
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WordPress Filter Examples – Changing Attributes When Adding Images to Posts
June 5th, 2010 | PHP, Web Development, Wordpress, WordPress Hacks and Tweaks | 81 responses
Typically, when you add an image to your posts, wordpress assigns certain attributes to the img tag, depending on (more…)
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Writing Visually: Blogging for the Internet Reader
May 30th, 2011 | Blogging, Writing | no responses yet
The internet flourishes on speed and efficiency. For this reason, bloggers have to keep their writing medium in mind in order to make a successful blog. An internet audience expects ease, speed, and instant gratification. To properly deliver to an internet audience, a blogger must think and write visually. (more…)
Optimizing Robots.txt file for WordPress indexation
April 12th, 2011 | SEO, Wordpress | 19 responses
Robots.txt file is a way to tell search engines and other crawlers which parts of your website should be crawled and indexed.
WordPress uses a virtual robots.txt file by default (more…)
How to Fix Sitemap “Paths Don’t Match” Error in Google Webmaster Tools
March 29th, 2011 | Q & A, SEO, Sitemap | 13 responses
Question:
No matter which method I choose to submit my sitemap, I can’t get it to be accepted by Google Webmaster Tools. All I get is an X symbol for the sitemap status, and for each line in it, I get the following error:
“Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted (more…)
Using Regular Expressions in WordPress to Manipulate Content
March 22nd, 2011 | Regular Expressions, WordPress Hacks and Tweaks | no responses yet
There are many examples of useful regular expressions around the web, but in this article I will focus on explaining their use in WordPress.
Before I show you an example of a classic use of Regex in a WordPress filter (more…)
16 WordPress Plugins I Use
March 15th, 2011 | Plugins, Q & A, Wordpress | 8 responses
Question:
I am a newbie in WordPress and not sure which plugins to install. Can you please advise?
After a year and some of running this blog, I have changed plugins several times (more…)
Creating Tag List or Tag Cloud for a Specific Category
March 8th, 2011 | Categories and Tags, Q & A, Tips, Wordpress, WordPress Hacks and Tweaks | 21 responses
Question:
Is it possible to create a category specific tag cloud or to list tags per category?
There are a few plugins that are supposed to enable filtering tags for specific category (more…)
Which WordPress Plugin Do You Use for Mobile Phone Compatibility?
March 1st, 2011 | Browsers, Mobile Phones, Plugins, Q & A | 10 responses
Question:
I was wondering which plugin do you use for smartphone compatibility in your blog.
I heard recommendations about WPtouch but wasn’t sure about some of its setting.
At the time this question was asked (more…)






