Do you use a stripe advert across the top of your site? I was sent a copy of MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad for review. This is a plugin for those ads you see at the top of the screen with a special offer or in my case an offer to subscribe to my email list. For… Continue Reading
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How To Add Google Analytics To WordPress
I get asked a lot how to add Google Analytics to a website. For WordPress this is really easy. 1) Go to http://google.com/analytics and sign up and add your website. They will give you some tracking code but just leave that page open for now. 2) In your website’s WordPress admin dashboard to Plugins >… Continue Reading
The Five WordPress Plugins You Should Be Using
This isn’t going to be a long post, or sales pitch but is a list of the plugins I install and tell you to install again and again. 1) WordPress SEO by Yoast Greatly improves your Search Engine Optimization. Install and activate it and read the guide here (long but worth it). 2) Akismet This… Continue Reading
Optimizing WordPress for Mobiles
Can you remember life without a mobile phone? It was different, wasn’t it? Instead of being on call all hours of the day and evening, if we were out and about, we used to have to trudge to a public telephone box to keep in touch, sometimes queuing up in a line, pulling out change,… Continue Reading
CrankyAds Plugin Review
CrankyAds is an advertising plugin for WordPress blogs and I thought I would give it a review. I don’t run ads on this site, but many clients do and for years I’ve been recommending Max Banner Ads as a way of managing your adverts, but this doesn’t allow you to take payment, manage campaigns or… Continue Reading
How To Add Related Posts To WordPress
There are many related posts plugins for WordPress. These are plugins that automatically add a list of other posts that you’ve written to the end of a single post page, before the comment box. My old favorite used to be Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) which outputted a list of highly related posts under… Continue Reading
Let’s Contact Each Other
As busy Internet Marketers, we all know that customer comments, messages and feedback are the bottom line when it comes to blogging success. Knowing this, why do so many of us still forget to optimize our contact forms? Savvy bloggers are turning to smart software to clean up the contact options on their WordPress sites.… Continue Reading
The Story of a Plugin – Part 4: The FAQ
You may wish to read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 first where I talk about the idea for the plugin, early proofs of concept, and getting to the current release version. There have been quite a few questions about the plugin, so I’ll try to answer some of them here. What is Pro… Continue Reading
The Story of a Plugin – Part 3: The WordPress Years
You may wish to read Part 1 and Part 2 first where I talk about the idea for the plugin and early proofs of concept. So the first thing to decide on creating a plugin (after, of course, deciding to make one at all!) is whether to do it yourself or hire someone to do… Continue Reading
The Story of a Plugin – Part 2: Proofs Of Concept
In Part 1 I quickly talked about the problem I have had in the past with gathering data and the thought there must be a solution to the problem of too many data sources. When I started blogging in 1999 (I think, it might have been 1998) measuring traffic was pretty important but a fairly… Continue Reading