Subscribe Via RSSKontera ContentLinks – Switch from Double to Single Underline If you haven’t heard of Kontera ContentLinks (http://www.kontera.com/), they are the leading developer of In-Text Advertising Solutions for web publishers and advertisers. You can recognise their ads by the double underline links found on words within web pages. Their software finds contextually relevant keywords on a Continue reading »
How to Install Google Custom Search Engine in WordPress – Part 2
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How to Install Google Custom Search Engine in WordPress – Part 1
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How to Install Google Custom Search Engine in WordPress – Part 3
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Show Only Children Pages on Parent Page
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Robots.txt for WordPress – How To Manage Your Robots.txt File
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Top Search Engines and Directories
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Broken Link Checker
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Create a WordPress Custom Database Error Page
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Tags vs Categories
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Stop WordPress Eating your Disk Space
Stop WordPress Eating your Disk Space WordPress saves a "revision" of a post or page each time you save a draft or publish a post or page. The aim of this function was to enable an undelete type facility. Unfortunately this facility can eat a huge amount of disk space. This blog describes methods for Continue reading »
What to Include In Your Design Contract
What to Include In Your Design Contract No matter what your profession, be it programmer, web developer, graphic designer, doctor, lawyer, plumber or electrician and be you freelance or otherwise, if you do not have a letter of contract and/or standard terms and conditions for your clients to sign prior to starting a project, YOU Continue reading »
Essential WordPress Plugins
Essential WordPress Plugins Top Plugins Every Blog Should Have Why are the WordPress plugins listed here essential? Well although the standard install of WordPress is excellent when you want to push WordPress a little (or a lot) further, plugins become a necessity to extend its functionality. Especially if you are considering using WordPress for eCommerce. Continue reading »
How to find WordPress Page ID Solution
How to find WordPress Page ID Solution Ok, this is going to sound really stupid and I’ll bet everyone knows the answer but silly old me. The question is: Using the latest version of WordPress (2.8.5) How do you find the WordPress Page or Post ID? The problem is, I want to exclude links to Continue reading »
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and Submission
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and Submission WordPress is ready to embrace search engines straight out of the box. WordPress will help search engines index your site and gather the necessary information as part of its design. But, and there’s always a but, once you add a WordPress Theme and customise WordPress to your needs you Continue reading »