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Wordpress For Business Presentation
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13 Nov 2009I was kindly invited by the SoCal Wordpress Meetup group, run by Natalie MacLees, to give a presentation at their next meeting in Los Angeles on November 19th. It’s free, but you must RSVP at Meetup.com. I’ll be talking about using Wordpress for business – marketing, SEO, relevant plugins etc. There will be lots of [...]
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- Tags: business, meetup, presentation, Wordpress
How To Get Rid Of Captions In Wordpress
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31 Oct 2009In version 2.6 Wordpress introduced the captions feature which meant that when you uploaded an image, the text you entered as the ‘alt’ text, previously only visible to search engines, was now used as a caption under your image, visible to all.
I personally have found this quite annoying and should you agree, here’s a couple [...]
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- Tags: captions, disable, plugin, Wordpress
The terms pingbacks and trackbacks are used almost interchangeably, and are pretty much the same thing on the surface. They actually utilize different technologies and originated for different purposes, but these days they are becoming more intertwined. I’m just going to call them trackbacks for the purpose of this post.
What are they?
Essentially both are forms [...]
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- Tags: pingback, trackback, traffic, Wordpress
Once you’ve got your WordPress blog installed, there are a few tweaks you’ll want to make to the default settings. This is a quick overview of the Settings area of the WP dashboard. You don’t have to tweak, or necessarily understand every single option – you can use this a rough guide as to what [...]
Notes from Wordcamp Los Angeles
In: Wordpress
15 Sep 2009I attended my first WordCamp this weekend and had a great time listening to some info-filled presentations and mingling with my fellow nerds. :)
Here’s some nuggets I gleaned from the day….enjoy.
WordPress will soon run the world. Their other products include:
bbPress – lightweight, WP-style forum
BuddyPress – social network in a box
BackPress – shared code library for [...]
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- Tags: buddypress, cloud, ecommerce, green, mixergy, search, seo, video, wordcamp, Wordpress, wordpress mu
Matt Cutts – Wordcamp San Francisco 2009
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24 Aug 2009Matt Cutts is a blogger and head of Google’s Webspam team. On his blog he gives a lot of great information regarding SEO and ranking well in Google. He gave a fairly in-depth talk at this year’s Wordcamp San Francisco, basically about how awesome Wordpress is for SEO purposes. The video of his talk was [...]
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- Tags: google, matt cutts, san francisco, seo, video, wordcamp, Wordpress
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