Highlight (spotlight) your content
Apr 22One 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...
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 Web Conferencing- DimDim
Jun 08Because there are times when reliable, affordable (read Free) web conferencing would make everyone’s lives easier, I thought you might appreciate this new and highly regarded Open Source offering- it is called DimDim. DimDim may be found at: http://dimdim.com. I am registered as: rabideau on the DimDim site. We will be exploring utilizing this technology for transitioning ideas etc. to...
WordPress Site Performance
Apr 25
For those of you who have been kind enough to spend time on our site, we thank you AND we are pleased to say that we have made a significant breakthrough in our site’s performance. The long and short of the issue is Plugins. Plugins can act as a significant drag on your site’s performance. We have noticed load times on this site approaching 11+ seconds (wayyyy to slow!). Now the...
WordPress Information Central!
Mar 18
WordPressHelp (WPH) is very pleased to announce that we have implemented the newest release of TreeMagic-Banyan thereby aggregating the web’s most important WordPress information all in one location!!! In our continuing efforts to make WordPress easier to use, WPH now affords WP developers & users the opportunity to double-click on any text word on this site and gain...