Tomboy to WordPress (ATOM)
Nov 02If you are a Linux user like I am (Ubuntu is the distro I use), this brief tutorial may be of some help to you. In order to setup Tomboy so it publishes to your WordPress BLOGS via ATOM do the following: Use Synaptic to install the Post note to your blog plugin restart Tomboy if it was running so that the plugin loads go to your WordPress BLOG Open Settings >>Writing and place a check...
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...
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...
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...
