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Can You Make a Business With WordPress Design?

August 16, 2013September 16, 2011 by Paul Salmon

This article was written by Ben Anderson. Ben enjoys blogging on many topics concerning the internet including web design, SEO, and internet strategic marketing.

WordPress has revolutionized the way we use our websites. You can have a website up and running in minutes, that is professionally done, and easy enough to add your own touch. However, there seems to be a certain taboo with using WordPress as an official web developer.

In all reality you are hardly doing any work and folks who are not savvy with the web may not know the difference between a WordPress site, and a site that is manually coded. So the question is which is more valuable, and how can you sell you WordPress development of a website to potential customers? This is a pressing issue, and doesn’t always have an immediate answer.

HeadSpace Dominates All In One SEO Pack – Here’s Proof

August 15, 2013July 14, 2011 by Paul Salmon

For years now people have been going crazy over what big brother Google needs when it comes to seo. Now I’m not going to get all into link building and stuff like that, because this post is only about how HeadSpace dominates All In One SEO Pack.

W3 Total Cache Prevented FeedBurner Feed from Updating

May 18, 2011 by Paul Salmon

A few weeks back I noticed that the RSS FeedBurner feed wasn’t updating for Technically Easy. Each time a post was published, the WordPress RSS feed would be updated, but the FeedBurner feed wasn’t updated to show the new post.

I went through the troubleshooting page on the FeedBurner website, but the steps outlined didn’t correct the problem. I then started to look at the caching plugin that I was using: W3 Total Cache. The plugin cached the RSS feed on my blog, but for some reason it started to cause problems with FeedBurner.

WordPress Plugin: GrowMap Anti-Spambot Plugin Review

March 24, 2012November 10, 2010 by Paul Salmon

I have been using the GrowMap Anti-Spambot Plugin (GASP) plugin for a few weeks now, so I decided to write a review about the plugin. Most blog owners have issues with spam comments on their posts. It is a fact of life when owning a blog – you will eventually start receiving spam comments. While … Read more

How to Manually Add AdSense in a WordPress Post

July 7, 2011November 5, 2010 by Paul Salmon

You can manually add AdSense in a WordPress post above or below the content without any issue. You can simply place the necessary code above, or below, the the_content(); function call. Now if you want to place it within the content, it is a bit more complex.

Most people would install a plugin that will automatically insert your AdSense code into the content of any post. I have used them in the past, but found that it would break the post readability if the code was inserted into the wrong location. Also, some people wish to reduce the number of plugins that are activated in the blog, so a manual method may be better. Once the code is added manually, you can easily monitor your AdSense coverage.

3 WordPress Plugins to Stop Spam

July 7, 2011September 29, 2010 by Paul Salmon

If you manage a WordPress blog, there are many WordPress plugins to stop spam. Spam is an annoying part of blogging, and if it isn’t managed properly, can turn a good, respectable blog into a trashy-looking blog. People have used many approaches to controlling spam, from captcha images to requiring registration on their blog.

Update:

I have since moved to using one plugin to stop spam from appearing on my blog. I now use the GrowMap Anti-Spambot Plugin to help eliminate spam.

I have also been bombarded with spam at times. While I have thought about measures to combat spam, I wanted to find methods that wouldn’t impact my visitors. About a week and a half ago I believe I have completed my spam-fighting arsenal, and have reduced the number of spam comments I see to zero. I list the three WordPress plugins to stop spam that I use on this blog.

How to Prevent Scripts from Loading for Logged in Users in WordPress

September 17, 2010 by Paul Salmon

I recently was thinking about how to prevent some scripts from loading, and executing, each time I logged into WordPress. The scripts were traffic statistics scripts and I didn’t want them from counting the visits from myself. If the option was available from the statistics script owner, I would simply have told it to exclude my IP address. If I decided to view my blog from a different location that I normally don’t use; however, then the script would count my visit.

The solution, as it turns out, was a rather simple one, and can be used to prevent pretty much anything from loading for a logged in user – any logged in user.

How To Load the Contact Form 7 Script for a Contact Page Only

August 16, 2016August 18, 2010 by Paul Salmon

You can stop the Contact Form 7 plugin’s script and stylesheet from loading on every page of your WordPress blog. While the plugin is a great one to install, since it makes creating contact forms easy, you probably don’t want to load the script and stylesheet on every page. For those that one to get every ounce of performance out of their blog, you definitely don’t want those two resources to load each time.

The good news is that it is easy to only load the plugin’s resources on a specific page of your WordPress blog. By simply creating a few lines of code in the functions.php file of your current theme, you can control when scripts and stylesheets are loaded for many plugins that you have installed. Let’s look at how to do this for the Contact Form 7 plugin.