I am not a Thesis user. I have designed for Thesis, but I have no love of it. Frankly, it bites. I wrote about Thesis before, and even though I offer a free and simple skin, I still have no love for it. Thesis does not enhance SEO in any way. In fact, here is
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Askimet Deletes Real Comments?
You heard it! And this is not a singular incident. Even Growmap published Akismet Deletes Comments Bloggers NEVER SEE! While a lot of people do know, others do not know that Askimet will block IP addresses that have been reported to be used by spammers. This is a problem, especially if those addresses are dynamic
[Continue Reading...]Making A Two-Tiered Navigation in WordPress
Aside from the wonderful WordPress 3.0 navigation, a lot of people really like the two-tiered navigation. So, what is it? The two-tiered navigation is a horizontal navigation that the first layer on top is the parent pages and the second are the child pages. When you click the parent page, the child pages will appear
[Continue Reading...]Creating A Simple Author Profile Page In WordPress
I went over an effective way to put more social network handles into your WordPress profile without having to use a plugin, as well as being able to call it to your template in case you have an author’s box somewhere within your single post template. This time, we are not going to have to
[Continue Reading...]How to Optimize WordPress for Speed: Part 2
This is a guest post by Jason Capshaw. Jason Capshaw is founder of MyWebTronics, an Atlanta web design firm. He resides in Atlanta with his wife and two children This is Part 2 in the series of How to Optimize WordPress for Speed. Reducing PHP functions in themes WordPress has thousands of different functions that
[Continue Reading...]How to Optimize WordPress for Speed: Part 1
This is a guest post by Jason Capshaw. Jason Capshaw is founder of MyWebTronics, an Atlanta web design firm. He resides in Atlanta with his wife and two children There are many reasons why you want WordPress to be as fast as possible. The least of which is user experience. Visitors are extremely impatient with
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