Pingbacks and Trackbacks in WordPress are a very interesting idea. Unfortunately, they were very interesting to spammers as well, and those spammers very quickly took over using them for malicious purpose. From then on, the debate raged; are they valuable? Should you approve them? Can you safely…

There’s a certain cycle of life online. Newcomers create new sites and new blogs. Businesses come in to spice up their old, lackluster websites with blogs. New companies spring up, running blogs to pitch their content. Black hats set up a handful of new spammy blogs every day. All of this is hap…

The beauty of WordPress is the flexibility of the platform. You can run it stock out of the metaphorical box, or you can run a framework, custom theme, and a smattering of plugins to make it look and act like a completely unique and customized site. The only question is; what should you install?
The list…

WordPress is interesting, as a blogging platform. There are three forms of WordPress, though one is an upgrade of another. You have WordPress.com, which is the hosted solution. It’s like Blogger or Tumblr; WordPress themselves hosts your blog, with a blogname.wordpress.com URL. There&r…

CommentLuv has been one of the most prominent comment modification plugins available for WordPress. It’s a unique idea in many ways, and no other plugin really does what it does. This post isn’t helping you choose between two plugins that do the same thing, CommentLuv and something el…

Infographics smashed into the world of marketing a few years ago, and within a few months everyone and their mother was making one. They were everywhere; on Facebook, on Pinterest, on LinkedIn, on every blog under the sun. Heck, I’m surprised I’ve never seen one on a billboard. I&rsquo…

Websites and computers are fraught with issues. If you’ve ever had your computer come up with the Blue Screen of Death, you know what I’m talking about. Most people, when confronted with that error screen, just shut their machines down and take them to the nearest geek they know. Some of…

It’s clear that social media is beneficial to a business. You get a lot out of it. You get advertising, you get engagement, you get customer satisfaction. You get paid marketing so cheap it’s practically free, if you want it to be, and it scales well with money.
One thing that you may or may…

There are two ways to make a mobile site. One is to create a dedicated mobile site on a subdomain or in a subfolder. Something like mobile.walmart.com (now Walmart.com) is a good example. It’s distinct from Walmart’s main site, but it’s perfectly functional and indeed designed…

WordPress, as one of the most popular blogging platforms in the world, offers the ability for users to change the date on their posts, both before and after they have been published. This is a useful tool. You can set a post to appear in the future, scheduling your content drops. You can write and upload…