Problogger has a year old post that is still picking up major hits on the long tail about seasonal posting. I usually hit on certain things at certain times, but sometimes you just have to get out of your own head and realize that most normal human beings search for real life things like crazy at holiday seasons.
In this day and age, it gets harder and more complicated to make your blog or web site stand out in the crowd. One of the things that beginning bloggers probably don’t pay attention to as much as they should is search engine optimization (SEO). SEO is the practice of making your site easier to read by search engines and making the necessary changes to facilitate this. These following tips are mostly for WordPress but the concepts can be used on any web site.
Weblog Tools Collection has a short overview of the features that will be introduced in WordPress 2.6. Here are some of the highlights:
Looks like WordPress 2.6 will help keep WordPress on the top of the blogging platform world.
Welcome everyone to my brand new tutorial about WordPress. In this first tutorial, I will guide you thru the installation of WordPress, which is dead simple. It is known as the “5 minute install”, though it takes even less if you know a few things.
Welcome back to our WordPress For Noobs tutorial series everyone! If you have missed any of the previous entries in the series, check out the Features page. You can also find other special features there. Please contact me if you have any questions or suggestions.
There is plenty going on behind the scenes here at blackleafmedia.com. I’ve worked up some more WordPress tutorials, I just need to go back and edit them a little bit.
One tutorial I am really excited about is where I show you my workflow for working on WordPress themes. I am interested in seeing how other people go about it. I am pretty particular in my setup of my software, etc. There is always room to streamline any sort of workflow.
For those of you who are using WordPress in business, you will find this plugin very useful. The Branded Admin Plugin can be used to change the login screen for the Admin panel. Now, You don’t need plugin to change this screen, however the problem with not using it is when you go to upgrade WordPress. When you use this plugin, it will protect your new screen from being overwritten and also keeps the original safe.
StylizedWeb has some cool and small WordPress tricks to smack WordPress into submission.
Later tonight I am going to try and sit down and finish my next theme. Tomorrow, I hope to release the next part of my WordPress For Noobs tutorial series.
Today I am continuing on looking for some other cool ideas people have come up with for WordPress. Justin Tadlock is a very active user on the WordPress Forums but today was the first time I got around to checking out his site.
In one post I found, he describes how to create an Authors template. He shows how to use it to showcase multiple authors on a blog. He also shows you how to throw Gravatars into the mix. Excellent site Justin!
Hayes Potter has an awesome base theme from which to work on and create your own theme. This is perfect for someone just beginning to get involved in making WordPress themes.
Do It Yourself WordPress Theme
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