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Essential bare-bones WP plugins

April 5th, 2008 Posted in Blogs, Wordpress | No Comments »

Wordpress has many plugins, but the variety and selection can be daunting. I have selected three that I think should be standard with every distribution of Wordpress, as they seem so trivial and are no-brainers to have. To me, at least. These aren’t some huge add-ons or fancy embellishments that would apply only to certain kinds of blogs. I chose plugins which all blogs would find helpful in some way. They’re all third-party and should work with all recent versions of Wordpress (>2.2)

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The Simple CMS Wordpress plugin

April 1st, 2008 Posted in Plugins, Wordpress | 2 Comments »

Simple CMS

I’ve been following the development of this plugin for two weeks and it sounds very promising. As it says, it’s a plugin to convert a Wordpress blog into a basic CMS, and it’s completely designed for the newest version, 2.5. Back then Wordpress 2.5 wasn’t officially released, and this plugin has underwent testing from several test bloggers. This plugin pares down the admin area for editors so that they can only focus on changing static page content. It’s a great tool for anyone just looking to use Wordpress for building a simple website without all the clutter that comes with other CMSes such as Joomla. So if you are thinking of making a few extra sites on your own and just need the basics, you can break them out in a snap.

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Wordpress Gotchas after “unpacking” for the first time

March 29th, 2008 Posted in Blogs, HTML, Wordpress | 1 Comment »

If you just started your first Wordpress blog, or are thinking of joining the Wordpress bandwagon, there are a few things that you may want to keep in mind. They aren’t particularly important to your website’s integrity, but they can be a tad annoying when working with your site. Wordpress has a few gotchas in terms of how it presents the website, and if you’re a stickler like me, you want to fine tune your website to the smallest details. You don’t have to be extremely tech savvy to understand and correct most of these, though knowledge of HTML and CSS do help.

At the time of this post, this covers gotchas from Wordpress version 2.3.3. However, they were also present in previous versions. Also, most of these tips only apply to people that are self-hosting their own installation of Wordpress, and not using Wordpress.com to host a free blog for them.

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SEO: more HTML, little actual marketing

March 29th, 2008 Posted in HTML, Websites | 2 Comments »

Short but sweet post this time…

Sitepoint’s forums recently featured this interesting discussion where the original poster explains that in a sense, HTML already covers the basics of search engine optimization. SEO is just another facet of good HTML practices, and this topic would be more appropriate in a site like HTML Dog than in WhateverMoneyBlog #18472. In other words, if you are good with HTML, SEO should be your bread and butter. Correct use of meta tags, page titles and headings, alt text in images and links, these are all scanned by search engine spiders.

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Domain names. They’re friggin’ cheap.

March 28th, 2008 Posted in Websites | 4 Comments »

Provided you’ve got a day job (and I’m sure many of you do, myself included) and you want a website, there’s no excuse not to register a domain name for your website these days. $10 a year is 2.74 cents a day. I remember back in the olden days of the web, back before the first internet bubble, where you would contemplate about buying that domain on Register.com for $35 and it sure felt like a big investment back then. (But wait a sec, Network Solutions still offers domains for $35- what gives?) Well, no more, I say. If you want your website to be taken seriously on the web, why not get a domain so that people can easily get to it?

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Welcome to Zero Dominance!

March 28th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »
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