WordPress Development & Plugin Use
Jun 03As many of you are aware, I have been building a rather extensive and large WordPress Website for my family genealogy (http://many-roads.com). As of this writing the site encompasses some 3 GB of space, an average of 120 unique readers per day with approximately 300 page reads, 10,000+ pages, images and documents (for me this is huge). I have posted a series of articles on ManyRoads...
WordPress for Genealogy
Oct 13For those of you out there interested in seeing a genealogy site built using ‘mostly’ WordPress, please visit ManyRoads. Obviously the site is one of mine (my family genealogy). However, I think it provides a pretty decent example of what you can do to slice and dice a ‘bunch’ of information into a ‘pretty useful’ format. I have tried to use a plugin for...
WordPress Security
Apr 19There 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
Apr 17As 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?
Apr 13In 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...
Free Themes
Mar 31Updated:11 April 2009 Updated: 15 April 2009 Like many of you, I am always in search of excellent themes for my existing and new WordPress sites. Also, probably like most of you, I seem to be constantly searching the web for them. In order to help consolidate my list of useful sites (eliminating many I find either to expensive or of too poor quality, here is my list: WordPress WordPress...