Archive for July, 2010

67 SEO Pointers for Blogging Beginners – a free guide

3D Team Leadership Arrow ConceptLots of the questions I get on Twitter and Facebook relate to blogging and SEO, and as I was typing up a quick and dirty guide to SEO Blogging for a client, I mentioned it to someone else and they…

WordPress Custom functions.php Template, Part 2

In a recent post, we show you how to clean up and enhance the functionality of WordPress with a custom functions.php template. In that post, we explain how using a custom…

10 New Plugins for WordPress 3.0

WordPress Plugins

Meteor Slides

Meteor Slides makes it simple to manage a slide show with WordPress by adding a custom post type for slides. The slides are managed as featured images through the media library; they will automatically be cropped to…

WordPress hack: Use includes in your posts or pages

The first step is to paste the following code in your function.php file:

function digwp_includeContentShortcode($atts) {

  $thepostid = intval($atts[postidparam]);
  $output = '';

  query_posts("p=$thepostid&post_type=page");
  if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
    $output .= get_the_content($post->ID);
  endwhile; else:
    // failed, output nothing
  endif;

Local Web Hosting is Expensive – Move Away

Is your website hosted with a local web host in town? Often web designers also function as a web host and sell this service is part of their package to you. This is often “justified” that they need to have…

10 Bad Writing Habits you Should Avoid

Writing is an art, and like any other art one must be properly trained to do so. I started writing sometime back and was really happy about my work until all the readers laughed at my work and made fun…

Do I need a keyword rich domain to do well in Google?

I get asked this question a lot. “If I want to be on the front page of Google for ‘widgets in Barnet’ then I need to buy www.widgetsinbarnet.com , don’t I?”

Now, there’s a lot…

Just because I LOOK as if I’m wasting time, doesn’t mean I am

I saw an interesting post in a forum the other day – the original poster was complaining that one of his suppliers hadn’t been able to complete his work, but was blogging every day, was posting on Facebook, tweeting etc,…

Display dates as “time ago”, the easy way

To display human readable dates on your blog, you have to use the human_time_diff() function. The following piece of code will show a post date like “Posted 6 days ago”.
Paste it anywhere within the loop, save the file,…

Is Your Nofollow Blog Disappointing People?


Angry Woman on LaptopI received a comment from a reader who seemed disappointed that my blog comments are nofollow.

For those who don’t know, nofollow means that my site’s PageRank is not transferred to your site when you leave a…