Copyright Infringement

Copyright Infringement

Aug 03

Of late, it has come to my attention that someone is stealing this site’s (my) content. I guess I should be honored that I am writing something that someone finds useful.  On the other hand, it offends my sensibilities that these folks did not have the common courtesy to request the right to reproduce my content — which by the way, I would have granted– or provide a link to...

Highlight (spotlight) your content

Highlight (spotlight) your content

Apr 22

One of the handy items worth doing with a website is highlighting specific content.  It turns out that there are a number of WordPress plugins available capable of doing the work, to one degree or another. However, for me there is one that stands above the crowd: === d13slideshow === The beauty of this tool is that it does what most of the others can but it does not conflict with the plugins...

WordPress Security

WordPress Security

Apr 19

There are numerous actions a prudent web admin can take to make their site more secure. In an effort to place the key safety precautions you can employ on a WordPress site I have gathered a number of actions from multiple sources and placed them here. Please note that this posting is not original content, rather it is a merged aggregation from the references listed below. Item 1. Always Upgrade...

SEO, Visibility, and Usability

SEO, Visibility, and Usability

Apr 17

As many of you may have noticed, I have been working on improving the ‘noticability’ of my sites using select WordPress Plugins. I can say with certainty now that the following plugins have had a very positive impact on my SEO rankings but more importantly on my site traffic. The plugins I refer to are: YARPP- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin- I use this plugin with customized...

DoFollow-NoFollow?

DoFollow-NoFollow?

Apr 13

In order to better understand the relative merits of moving from NoFollow to DoFollow, I have begun a test on this site. Basically I am using two new (for me) plugins. Lucia’sLinkLove -and- Nofollow Reciprocity The basic notion is that Lucia’s LinkLove allows for an automatic reset of the default NoFollow for comments to DoFollow, after pre-determined number (determined by me) of...