If you have used WordPress for any length of time, no doubt you’ve been on the hunt for a great social media plugin many (many!) times. I know I have… It should be easy to add social share buttons to your site – in fact it IS easy to add social buttons and that’s part […]
12.5 Essential WordPress Plugins For Your Business Blog
Where would your WordPress blog be without a plugin or two? WordPress plugins add functionality to your blog. They make blogging easier, more secure or just simply prettier. With over 31,000 WordPress plugins available in the WordPress repository alone, how do you start choosing? When you see lists of 50 or 101 essential WordPress Plugins, […]
Murphy’s Laws of Moving my WordPress Site
Some months back now, I said I was going to move My Local Business Online from Hostgator to my reseller host at WebHosting Buzz. Oh how I tried to move my WordPress website… and tried and tried again! It should be simple. It is USUALLY simple. Finally, I hope I’ve succeeded in moving this blog! […]
Google Plus Comments For WordPress Blogs [Video]
Regular readers may have noticed a slight change to the blog. Yes, I have gone social and added Google Plus comments… Google Plus Comments Plugin The plugin I opted for was Google+ Comments by Brandon Holtsclaw. It’s available through the WordPress plugin repository. I’m still in two minds about keeping the plugin, so would love […]
Sunday Catch Up – Wonderful WordPress Edition
As the howls of “botnet” and the news of bots targeting WordPress and other PHP based sites echo around the web, I thought a round-up of positive WordPress posts was in order… Just in case you missed the security warnings – here it is again with how to change your admin username. Move To […]
WordPress Social Media Widget Plugin Spam Problems
Sucuri reported on their blog yesterday that the WordPress Social Media Widget plugin is injecting payday loan spam into websites. It is recommended that you remove the plugin from your WordPress site. How to Remove The Social Media Widget Plugin Apologies for the poor sound, I still have not replaced my Muppet chewed headset! Written […]
Cloudinary Plugin – Free CDN and Image Manipulation
Everyone knows that images can bring life to your blog posts and landing pages. The problem is many people don’t optimise or compress their images, which slows down your loading time. Cloudinary have a great solution Cloudinary recently released their free WordPress plugin that allows you to take advantage of their image optimisation, manipulation […]