Category: Wordpress

When I work on a Wordpress website for a client, I install any Wordpress plugins that I think are necessary for them to use. And after working on a lot of Wordpress projects, I’ve basically developed a “package” of plugins that I have experience with and will regularly recommend that my clients use.

When I’m creating a Wordpress website, often times I’ll want a certain image, or a certain snippet of text, to appear on a particular page, but not on any others. How do you do that without creating multiple page or post templates? It’s quite simple actually: use conditional statements.

A fresh Wordpress installation is a beautiful thing – clean, simple, and loaded with potential. But before you can start designing your Wordpress website and uploading content, there are some basic things that you need to do in order to configure it properly and make the most out of it.

Say you have a lot of categories and posts on your Wordpress website, and want to have different single post pages for each category. How would you make this happen? It’s pretty simple actually – here’s how.

Wordpress is a great tool to build a website in, but when it comes to search engine optimization, there are a few areas where it needs some improvement. The issue of duplicate content is one of them, so I’d like to talk about what duplicate content is before presenting 5 easy ways to fix that [...]

Wordpress doesn’t have a default way of creating breadcrumbs, so when you’re designing a website in it, you have to include them on your own, either by adding some code to your theme’s files or by using a plugin. Here are some ways to create breadcrumbs in Wordpress for you to consider.

When I build a Wordpress website for a client, I have to remember that while I’m fully comfortable managing, editing, and adding content or enhancements, they aren’t necesssarily. So I make a few slight changes on the administrative side while building their website, which (hopefully) improves their overall user experience.

Back in February I put together a list of essential plugins for your Wordpress website or blog. Since then I’ve come across some additional plugins that I think would be useful to install and which I thought would be worth sharing.

When you’re building a website in Wordpress, you can customize just about anything – and the login screen is no exception to that. It doesn’t take much time to do, and it’s one of those little touches that are a big hit with your clients.

Bloggers know that commenting is vital for the long-term success of their blog, and I’m no exception to that. I’ve known that the comments area of my blog wasn’t as supportive of good commenting as it should have been, but I finally fixed that this week.