SEO, WordPress
Launching a New Website – 3 Steps to Prevent the SEO Drop
by Paul Fleming On December 5, 2018
With all the information available, it seems that some of it still gets lost in translation. When it comes to SEO we are well aware that there is plenty of incorrect information but while it’s been around for some time, plus the fact that there continues to be more and more experts touting SEO knowledge, … Read More
WordPress
WordPress Queries Solutions
by Emiliano Jankowski On October 16, 2012
When managing large WordPress websites that contain thousands of posts, pages, categories, comments, and hundreds of authors, there are times when you need to make extensive changes. For instance, you might need to convert all the posts under a certain category into pages, or remove all the comments marked as spam. Rather than spend hours, … Read More
Content Marketing, WordPress
When Online Goes Offline
by Jacob Smith On March 7, 2012
In the past, when something especially important happened to a client, Dinkum Interactive used to send them a batch of homemade cookies. And they weren’t just any cookies but decorated with the Dinkum Interactive logo. The cookies became one of our more effective marketing tools generating buzz, smiles, feedback and more. For a business like … Read More
WordPress
Tips and Tricks for Safe Plugin Upgrades
by Jacob Smith On January 6, 2012
WordPress plugin upgrades are a fact of life for any website administrator and staying up-to-date with the latest software versions is something I recommend. Ever since WordPress made it one-click easy to update plugins (and even the WordPress core) a few years back, many have been lulled into complacency – updating the easy way without … Read More
Content Marketing, WordPress
Nurturing a Million Comments, One at a Time
by Jacob Smith On November 1, 2011
Through our connection with hosting company Voxel dot Net we sometimes get a call to help out with things that don’t directly relate to hosting. A few months back, such a call came in the form of MjsBigBlog.com. MJ runs a great blog focusing on American Idol and other reality TV shows, and the magic … Read More
Content Marketing, WordPress
How Does Automattic Pay to Keep Developing WordPress?
by Jacob Smith On September 30, 2011
I’ve been recommending WordPress as a stable and yet fast-moving CMS to clients for years. The first few times I was surprised to get pushback about those shaky “open source” projects that fail after a few years (anyone remember the darling of the first tech boom – osCommerce?). After a dozen times of receiving this … Read More
WordPress
Adding a Logout Link to Your WordPress Theme, Plugin or Widget
by Emiliano Jankowski On September 20, 2011
We have been chatting about various changes that make your WordPress site more useful for your viewers. Today, we will look at adding a custom logout link into your theme or plugin, so users can close their sessions. This is not complicated. Lets see how to do it: <pre lang=”php”> <a href=”<?php echo wp_logout_url(); ?>”>Logout</a> … Read More
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Creating readme.txt for Our WordPress Plugin
by Emiliano Jankowski On September 13, 2011
We have been talking in previous posts, about the relevance of the readme.txt file, when you want to put put your plugin into the WordPress plugin directory. This is the text that explains about your plug in, answers common questions, thanks others for their input, and other like information. Sometimes, especially at the beginning, writing … Read More
WordPress
Testing an XmlRpc server
by Emiliano Jankowski On September 2, 2011
We are developing a big plugin with a big xmlrpc interface, and sometimes it’s hard to test your functions, and see what are the results. Googling a bit I found a very cool tool. It’s open source so you can download it and test it, or even better, you can edit and add the things … Read More
Technical SEO, WordPress
Fixing a Visual Editor Problem by Taking the Slow Lane
by Jacob Smith On August 12, 2011
Have you ever gotten really stuck working with an application that is supposed to be easy, to the point that you want to rip your hair out or throw your Macbook Pro out of the window? Well, save for the MacBook Pro destruction aspect (that’s another story, relating to OSX Lion upgrades crashing my favorite … Read More