Well formed URL’s are important to usability and SEO. WordPress permalinks give us awesome control over the structure of our base URL’s. Combined with well written headlines, we can create catchy, easy to remember, user friendly URL’s across our site. However, the base install of WordPress will add the word “category” to your url structure [...]
Imagine how you would feel if the internet suddenly disappeared. Now imagine my amusement when my grandmother called to tell me she had “deleted the internet.” I quipped “Al Gore‘s gonna be pissed!” She didn’t get it but it made me laugh because I knew what she had done was accidentally delete the web browser [...]
You want to make content creation easier right? Sometimes you have a lot of ideas, sometimes …. writers block. Do phrases like “content strategy” make you a little nauseous? Then check this out… I’d been reading about the Editorial Calendar Plugin on a few prominent blogs like Copyblogger and Chris Brogan.com, talking about how it’s streamlined things [...]
If you’ve read any of my posts on Woopra or PrettyLink Pro you would be correct in coming to the conclusion that I’m a bit of a stats junkie. You would also be correct in assuming that I’m a huge fan of both Woopra and PrettyLink Pro. If you don’t already use it, I’d get PrettyLink [...]
I love plugin discussions! No matter how many times I hear them I always pick up on some plugin that turns out to be useful to me, either on my site or on a client site. But no matter what site I’m working on there are a hand full of “utilitarian” plugins that I always [...]
One of my few gripes with WordPress has been the absence of easy linking to pages and posts internally. Fortunately Aaron Woods has come to the rescue. I’m not sure why I ddin’t find this sooner but if you are looking for a quick and easy way when writing a page or post to link [...]
I don’t frequently “plug a plug-in” but I just uncovered one today that I can only classify as absolutely essential and almost life-changing if you live and breathe WordPress… “Additional Image Sizes” by Walter Vos. First off I’m embarrassed that I didn’t know about this sooner (I’ll get over it). In a nutshell this plugin [...]
It’s not often that something comes along that impresses the hell out of me right out of the gate but PrettyLinkPro did just that. If you’ve been using social media for any amount of time, and especially Twitter you’ve gotten accustomed to seeing shortened urls to save space which redirect to the intended web page. [...]
Update: Some of these plugins have been updated since I wrote this but WishList is still at the top of my list. However, I’ll be revising this review before too long to update the others. If you have an interest in starting a membership based website and don’t know where to begin the options can [...]