How to Install Google Custom Search Engine in WordPress – Part 2 Getting and configuring GCSE Go to the WordPress Plugin Directory and download the, Google Custom Search, plugin. Unzip the downloaded file to your wp-content/plugins folder. Sign up for Google Custom Search (if you haven’t already). Click the, "Create a Custom Search Engine", button Continue reading »
How to Install Google Custom Search Engine in WordPress – Part 1 Introduction Until recently I’d never actually tried to use the default WordPress search engine, and I can say with almost certainty that I will not be using it again. My experience was ghastly, the search optimisation is terrible as is the search results Continue reading »
How to Install Google Custom Search Engine in WordPress – Part 3 Copying the Results Code to the GCSE plugin and creating a results page. Go to your WordPress Dashboard page. Click the, Pages > Add New, tab to Add a New Page. Enter the title of the page, i.e. Search Page. This will be Continue reading »
Money Making Websites – How to Build One In this article we will be covering topics such as how to find your target audience, which networks to choose, how to convert traffic on your website and how to get your visitors to come back again and again. Ask yourself this, where am I going and Continue reading »
How to Install Google Custom Search Engine in WordPress Need a better search engine for your WordPress blog? In this step by step guide I show how to install the Google Custom Search Engine Plugin for WordPress. A far better solution for your blog than the default WordPress offering. Continue reading »
10 Best Web Hosting Providers for Small Businesses The aim of this review is to provide details of the 10 best web hosting providers I could find for those wanting their own WordPress website and those wanting to start their own business. Each of the web hosting providers below had to satisfy the following criteria Continue reading »
The WordPress Codex has the most extensive documentation on WordPress available but in many differing locations. Wouldn’t it be nice to have the different template tags available for use in your WordPress themes available in one location? Ekin Ertac has created a WordPress Cheatsheet in PDF format listing all the available WordPress template tags along Continue reading »
Create a WordPress Custom Database Error Page Did you know your MySQL database could be down or having problems and you wouldn’t even know? Did you know you can define a custom database error page for WordPress? The following error page will: Issue a 503 server and status response telling the client to try again Continue reading »
WordPress Custom Database Error Page Did you know your MySQL database could be down or having problems and you wouldn’t even know? Did you know you can define a custom database error page for WordPress? Why would you want to define a custom database error page? Well for a start it doesn’t look very nice Continue reading »
Tags vs Categories WordPress features both tags and categories, which on the whole, tends to confuse new users (it certainly did with me, and still does to some extent), so here’s my overview on how and when to use them. First Simplify Tags and Categories are nothing more than Keywords. Each post must be attached Continue reading »
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 »
Essential WordPress Plugins Why are the WordPress plugins listed here essential? Well although the standard install of WordPress is excellent for beginners and standard blogs when you want to push WordPress a little (or a lot) further, plugins become a necessity to extend its functionality. The following list of plugins are my minimun recomendations which Continue reading »
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 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 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 »
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