You can really improve your website’s performance without spending any money by tuning up the delivery of pages, images and scripts using the tips given by the Google Page Speed Tools, and by hosting images on a CDN (content delivery network) such as Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service). But first let’s take a peak under […]
How To Make WordPress Posts Work Harder With Social Media
Being a developer and WordPress coach, I spend a lot of my time either developing my stuff or training people one on one (via Skype) to use WordPress effectively. I don’t spend much time talking about it. This site is an attempt to change that and also, face up to the fact that I don’t […]
How To Rank On Google On Page One
One way to rank your site well on Google is to let Google’s personalization tell you want you want to hear. Google collects information about the way you search, and the sites you visit, then adds some localization so as to serve you the results he (I’ve always seen Google as a he) thinks will […]
Free Graphics Resources For Your Website
Today’s tip is about free graphic resources. There are plenty of these online, but I’ve just picked out a handful of the ones I find useful to talk about in the video. Underneath the videos is a list of further resources that you can look at. I will add more here as I find and […]
How To Make A Mobile Website
This WordPress tip is about making sure your site works for mobile users. A confession: I’ve only just started looking at what we should be doing with our own sites, and this article is the result of my own investigations. Why Do We Need Mobile Versions of Our Websites? Technically, we don’t. Smartphones and smart […]
Commenting And Checking Using Google Alerts
In a previous WordPress Tip, we talked about making good use of the CommentLuv Premium plugin either by installing it on your own site, and/or by searching for sites with CommentLuv installed and making consistent efforts to comment on those. With CommentLuv, your post backlink will appear automatically under your comment. There is no requirement […]
No Follow Links – What Is Rel = External Nofollow?
Google recently (well, in 2009) changed the rules around the concept of what nofollow meant to website owners. It is generally understood that you need backlinks to your site and one method used by many WordPress owners will be to comment on other WordPress sites to get links back via the comment to their own […]
How To Do A WordPress SQL Query
I was asked how to list all the posts in a WordPress database as a follow-on question from this blog post that explains how to search all your WordPress posts for a certain character string or link. If this article helps you, please help me by clicking one or more of the social media buttons […]
How To Search WordPress Posts Using MySQL
Have you ever wanted to locate something within one or more of your posts, but been unable to remember exactly where you’d placed it? You can use the WordPress dashboard search of course, but if that doesn’t help, you can try a more thorough search of the WordPress posts database table using MySQL. If this […]
Important Security Notification – Amazon S3 Bucket Settings
You may have received an email from Amazon recently that talked about the security on your Amazon S3 account. Don’t worry about the email – any issues are easily fixed, and this article will explain how to make a small change to your Amazon S3 account settings so that the security issue they mention is […]
