Tagged: wordpress

Lightning Talks: Doing it Right (Zack Tollman, Joe Dolson) #wcsf14

The second session I manged to attend (after one was postponed due to an emergency drill included two “Lightning Talks: Doing it Right” A Look at WordPress Performance by Zack Tollman (@wired) Official description: While site performance is an important topic in the WordPress community, how are we really doing at maintaining fast websites in the real world? In my talk,...

Password Protect a Whole WordPress Site

When you are developing a WordPress site I recommend doing it on your own machine, using WAMP/MAMP/LAMP. It is just simpler and faster to do it that way. However if you want the client to be able to preview the site (and you don’t want them to come to where your computer is) it needs to be on the internet....

Webcast: Google in the Real World: How Links Boost Your Rankings

Yesterday, February 7, 2012, I attended a webcast titled “Google in the Real World: How Links Boost Your Rankings“. It was presented by Stephan Spencer for O’Reilly, who published his book “The Art of SEO” three years ago. The books 2nd edition is coming out in March. This webcast was much better than the one I listened to 2 months...

Using the WordPress menu for a sitemap page

Today I had to research how to use WordPress’ Menu system as the basis for a sitemap page. In the past I used the “HTML Page Sitemap” plugin to turn the site’s pages and their hierarchies into a sitemap page. Today however I had to find a solution for a site that uses the hierarchies of the menus, but not the...

SEO Daily links: Google Places' features, problems and citations sources + mobile linkbuilding and CTR estimation

Useful fact of the day: WordPress MU (MultiUser) allows running multiple blogs from one installation, under different subdomains or directories Useless fact of the day: There are more Americans on Facebook than have passports. 150 million vs. 115 million. (Source: Tripl) And now onto today’s SEO links with my comments in italics: Mike Blumenthals pointed out three features that got...