The official Twitter plugin helps you to share your blog using twitter cards to make your links stand out from the card, gives you a follow button and the ability to customise your embedded tweets. Alongside all this, you get access to enhanced twitter analytics, so what are you waiting for? 3 steps to setting […]
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How to choose a host for your shiny new wordpress website.
So, you’ve listened to the talks on self hosting your website, you’ve read around on the issues that using wordpress.com or blogger or other free systems might imply and you’ve decided to take the leap. You know you need a domain name, and a host. But what are those things, where do you get them, […]
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 […]
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 […]