A while back (a longish while back) I posted about blocking Seamalt.com from your website. In the time since there there have been some developments. 0. I noticed that I was spelling “semalt” wrong. I was typing “seamalt”. And I’ve got in wrong in this post as well. That’s bad website building. People should be able to spell your URL. Ha! 1. Another spam referral website has come to prominence. … Continue reading →
I’ve published an additional post on blocking seamalt and other spam referrers here. You may have noticed Seamalt showing up in your referrers when looking at your Google, WordPress or other site states. You may also know that Seamalt claims they are legit while others claim Seamalt will harm your SEO. I don’t have a dog in that fight. All I wanted to do was ban Seamalt from my website. … Continue reading →
Here’s a question I had come my way. “Can I embed my photos from Flickr in my WordPress site instead of uploading them to WordPress?” Yes, you sure can. Here is why I wouldn’t do that. 1. Having your own website and using WordPress is something you do so that you have total control over your web presence. If you are embedding from an external site you are going to … Continue reading →
Enhancing NextGEN Gallery NextGEN Gallery is a very popular way to display images in WordPress. There are a number of plugins which enhance NextGEN. NextGEN Gallery Sidebar Widget allows you to display thumbnails linking to your NextGEN galleries in your sidebar. One thing you should know first. For this to work correctly – and by that I mean if you want a person who clicks on a thumbnail to be … Continue reading →
Many people start up a blog with WordPress.com and then down the road discover they need additional functionality which is not available with the .com platform. Moving their site to a self hosted .org site can be pretty intimidating and painful if you don’t know what you are doing. Actually – it can be pretty painful if you do know what you are doing. WordPress will now move your content … Continue reading →
First off let me say there are a number of ways to do this. This is only one way. There might be better ways for you to add a PDF file to your blog post or page depending on your needs and applications. This method does not require any additional plugins. How to add a PDF file to WordPress using the upload/insert image function: When writing your post or page … Continue reading →
Darn pesky thing. Your default link category is set for Blogroll. You add another category but you still can’t get rid of Blogroll – nor change the default to your new category. You might think the setting for default like category would be some place in “links” menu. Wrong. Find it under Settings -> Writing up at the top. You will see “default link category” and a dropdown box with … Continue reading →
WordPress was designed to be used as blogging software. Now it’s being used more and more as a CMS (Content Management System) on many sites. In many cases you want to have a visitor to you site land on a static page first, not your blog entries. An example is this site. If you type http://www.wordpressartandscience.com into your address bar and hit enter you will arrive at the home page, … Continue reading →