WordPress footers have some good information in them, but at the same time, they’re kind of obnoxious. They also herald the fact that you’re using WordPress, which isn’t always a good thing. WordPress is a very, very widely used platform, and that means it’s often prone t…

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…

It’s easy to set up a blog and start blogging, but it’s very difficult to break into the blogging industry. There are hundreds of thousands of blogs out there with no readership, no plan, no editorial focus; just personal blogs with whatever the author feels like posting at the time. Now…

There are plenty of reasons why you might want to do a little detective work to figure out what a site is using to run itself. Maybe they have a feature you quite like and would like to use it for your own site. Maybe you’re performing a study and want to figure out which plugins are most commonly used…

One thing that comes up from time to time – more so in the last year than in years prior – is Buffer. From context, you can gather that it is an app for some kind of social media purpose, but if you’ve never used it, it’s hard to grasp just what it is and what it does. This is made more…

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…

You ever see the high quality images on a blog and wonder how the blog owner found them? It’s not easy, right? You have to find the right image, you have to make sure you can have the rights to use it, and you have to format it properly for your blog. It’s a tedious and time-consuming process, w…

You might think that it’s a simple matter to migrate a site from a hosted WordPress.com version to the self-hosted WordPress.org version, and to a certain extent it is. The problem comes from the various issues you can have with doing steps in the wrong order, skipping a step, or just not knowin…

Publishing your post is just the beginning of the adventure that is modern web marketing. There’s simply far too much content published every day for any post to stand on its own merit. The concept of “if you build it, they will come” is long outdated. It only works if you’re…

Have you ever wondered how some of the largest blog networks out there do it? How they manage all the disparate sites and users? I did, once, so I took a look at Gawker media. They have a bunch of different sites, like Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Kotaku and Io9. They have a unique and consistent look, which indi…