Archive for November, 2011

1 Golden Strategy for Better Web Content

Good content ranks high in search results

Here’s 1 simple strategy to writing killer SEO web content for your blog.  You can be sure that you’re post will be the best result in the SERPs when you rank. Copy and Dominate in the SERPs Don’t enter the SERPs blindly, look at who’s already there. Analyze the first page of results, specifically the top 3, [...]

How to: Create Custom Sidebars with Widget Logic

With the addition of custom menus in WordPress, it has become much easier to define your own menus. However, it still does not give the ability to make entirely custom sidebars. There are some of you out there who would prefer to have complete control over all of your sidebars and where specific widgets will [...]

9 Quick Tips For Using Twitter

9 Quick Tips For Using Twitter

"Twitter Follower Mosaic" by joelaz Twitter is a great tool for networking with friends, old and new. In this post I’ll be sharing some of the most important ways to get the most out of Twitter, which in turn will help you get more readers to your blog. 1. Update Your Personal Details If you [...]

WordPress Custom Post Types Tutorials, Tools & Advice

Custom post types are a powerfull feature of WordPress that allow you to use it to manage many different types of websites. What is a custom post type ? The best way to think of it is as custom content, outside the scope of posts and pages which WordPress has by default. You could use [...]

How To: Create a Public News Area for your WordPress site

I have been looking for some way to add a community news section to a blog of mine, buts its been quite difficult. TDO mini forms is a way to let people submit normal posts but I wanted the news to separate from the main blog and feed so that meant custom post types which [...]

Build a Plugin (Twitter Widget) into your WordPress Theme

WPCandy talked about building a functionality plugin which is to take functions that could be added to your theme’s functions.php file and making a plugin out of them so if you change themes you won’t lose any essential functionality ( like shortcodes etc). But what if you want to do the opposite and take a [...]

7 Tips For Writing a Mega List Post

7 Tips For Writing a Mega List Post

"142/365" by Manuela Hoffmann It’s a bit odd to suggest how to write a mega list post by only listing 7 items! However, I’m a firm believer in only including as many items as I can think of. Maybe I stopped thinking of list items a bit too soon. Anyway… 1. Don’t Start it as [...]

WooThemes WordPress Wishlist Survey

WooThemes has launched a quick survey to get your opinions on the state of WordPress and what needs some attention in the future. Judging by past offering from WooThemes, your answers could influence future themes and plugins offered by WooThemes. It may not be tied to official WordPress development, but it’s worth the 5 minutes [...]

Difference Between Hits, Page Impressions And Unique Visits

Unique hits vs. page impressions

Sometimes during my daily visit to new forums and blogs, I see people announcing about finally getting thousands of hits per month, giving the impression that their website has become very popular, then I look up at my Alexa toolbar and see that their above 7 million, and with page rank zero, which just doesn’t [...]

15 Entertaining & Informative WordPress Infographics

Infographics have been big in 2011 – people have them made because they do really well virally on social media sites like twitter and facebook and blogs love linking to them (as you can see from this post!). A good number have been made about WordPress so I thought I would collect them together for [...]