Tag Archives: Wordpress

Themes

Why Catalyst Is The Best and Only WordPress Theme You Will EVER Need

catalystanalyst.com I have used dozens of WordPress themes over the last 5 years or so, both paid and free ones. The guys behind Frugal and now the mighty Catalyst have got something pretty special with this. Speed up your workflow, easy SEO, valid HTML5 code, any look you want is possible. * No more hours searching for the “right” theme for your project! * No more manually tweaking PHP and CSS code! * Hurrah!

Plugins

9 Essential WordPress Plugins For Every Blog

WordPressLapdance.com 9 Essential WordPress Plugins For Every Blog For every new blog that I install these 9 WordPress plugins are essential. There is no reason not to have them (until I find some better solutions!) and they are well worth installing yourself. So, here are my favourite plugins, in alphabetical order! Broken Link Checker – quite a simple trick with this plugin, it trawls through your posts and pages and detects links that are no longer working. Why? Well the aim is to prevent dead links in your posts, which can ruin your reputation with your readers and get you penalised with the search engines. FeedBurner FeedSmith – every blog needs an RSS feed – it generates more traffic. But by signing up to Feedburner and using this plugin to direct all RSS feeds via Feedburner, you can then see just how many people are using your RSS feed and which posts are proving the most popular. Limit Login Attempts – a very simple security plugin. If someone is trying to hack into your blog using brute force then this plugin detects their attacks and stops their attempts. It can email you with a warning and block them out for however long you want. Revision Diet – if you are like me then this plugin is essential! I will write a post and save it, read it and then save it, read it again and so on. If I am not careful then I can have dozens of versions of each post, which rapidly fill my database. This post just gets rid of all of those extra versions of the post that you don’t …

Plugins

Top 5 SEO WordPress Plugins

WordPressLapdance.com Top 5 SEO WordPress Plugins If you have browsed through the plug in section of your WordPress admin panel, you’ll know there is thousands of useful plug ins to help improve your site front end and back end. Here we’re going to look at the tools that can help you with your SEO, we all know Google loves WordPress, but how can we get even more out of our blogg? 1.All In One SEO Pack This plug in is a complete out of the box SEO feature for your blogg. It allows you to add and edit all the meta information for your blogg posts, including title, description, keywords. This is an extremely important plug in. 2.Evermore This little plug in will abbreviate your posts when listed on pages other than the actual post page. As to stop Google from seeing duplicate data, which Google do not like. Also smartens up your blogg, don’t want whole posts on every single page! 3.Google XML Sitemaps This is a excellent plug in, once manually uploaded once (which is encouraged and easy to do) it will update your Google sitemaps whenever you write a new post, so you don’t have to upload a new xml sitemap for Google to find your pages. 4.Robots Meta This plug in allows you to pick and choose which posts are ‘do follow’ and ‘no follow’. Really useful to make sure your posts are set up to be picked up by Google spiders. Some blogg templates by default for some reason seem to be ‘no follow’, so if you don’t want to be digging around through code, this is for you. 5.WP Google …