Twitter API upgrade leads to broken twitter widgets At the end of last week, Twitter upgraded API from 1.0 to 1.1. (API is how external sites link to twitter’s code.) The result was that lots and lots of tweetstreams on blogs and sites around the internet broke. It’s likely that if you’re in that situation, […]
Twitter cards – what they are and how to integrate.
Twitter cards are the latest upgrade to twitter that allows you to add extra information to your tweet when sharing a link. They come in a number of different formats – the one that is most likely to be useful to a business or personal blog is the summary card, which adds a headline, excerpt […]
The absolute basics of SEO.
There’s an awful lot of nonsense spouted about search engine optimisation, as if it’s a difficult topic. It’s not. Here are the basics of SEO as I see them. Your mileage may vary. A post should be 300-500 words. Good content is written for people, but works for search engines too. A good post summarises […]
CSS Tip: Absolute Positioning Inside Relative Positioning
I was having a little problem with styling a WordPress/Genesis Author Box. The normal layout is that there is an avatar in the top left hand corner around which the text flows- like this: However, what the client wanted was for the all text to be indented, in a neat column to the right of […]
How to improve your page load speed using pingdom.
Why would you check your page load speed in the first place? If you’re like me, you hate hanging around waiting for a page to load. So have you considered checking how speedy your own blog is? There are some simple tests you can do to check what’s going on – one resource I’ve used […]
WordPress under attack – how to protect your site from the admin account hack.
There’s an Ars Technica article flying around right now about a massive attack on wordpress sites around the internet attempting to build a super botnet. The attack is working by targeting a particular user account that the vast majority of sites have, including this one. According to CloudFlare’s Prince, the distributed attacks are attempting to […]