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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I’m always surprised to hear about websites where owners have no idea how many visitors they receive. It might be because the web designer forgot to add in any kind of stats package to the completed site, or maybe the site owner created the site by themselves and didn’t know how to add in a […]

Hit counters can be set up on each of your web pages to show you (and optionally), other people how many times your page has been visited. Hit counters really are things of the past. Nowadays you are more likely to install a proper analytics or stats package on your site. However, when checking website […]

Did you know there are two types of WordPress? It’s often asked which is the best version to use and what are the advantages of WordPress.com vs WordPress.org. When you make the decision to create your own website or blog using WordPress, you must decide which is best for your purposes. Both types are provided […]