Tag Archives: WordPress

New theme

I have used a theme I had created myself but it is time to pick a more professional look. There are many themes available,  I decided to swith to Vigilance which is a powerful and flexible theme.

WordPress and magazine-style themes

Through The Blog Herald I was pointed to Smashing Magazine and When To Use Magazine-Style Themes For Blogs?
It is a great and long post that deals with
• Key Differences
• Why Are More Blogs Moving to Magazine Themes?
• Pros and Cons
• Considerations for Choosing a Style of Theme
• Tutorials for Designing a Magazine Theme
• Resources for Grid-Based Design
• Free Magazine-Style Themes for WordPress
• Premium [...]

WordPress and how to disable post revisions

WordPress introduced Post Revisions in version 2.6 which results in lots of posts (each revision) getting stored in the database. The feature is nothing I need or use and after seeing the result in my database size I looked for ways to disable it.
In How To Turn Off Post Revision In WordPress 2.6 is the [...]

WordPress 2.6 and blank admin screen

I am in the process of upgrading my blogs to WordPress 2.6. That gave me a strange problem in some of my blogs, I got a blank screen when trying to access the admin part of WordPress. The strange thing was that those two themes (my own tweaks) that caused problem in admin mode worked [...]

My WordPress plugins, an update

I have updated my list of WordPress plugins that I use at my blogs.
StatPress is out, it logs too much to the database.
A mobile plugin is in, so is WordPress Database Backup.

Making WordPress mobile

I am testing two different plugins that shall make your WordPress blog easier to read using mobile devices. Here at fortyplustwo I have installed the WordPress Mobile Edition and over at btwendel.com I have installed the WordPress Mobile Plugin.
If you are reading this blog using a mobile, please let me know how it works.

What about blog sidebars?

I have taken time to work on my blogs, behind the scene as well as how they look. Part of that work was creating a list of WordPress plugins that I use at my blogs. Some of those plugins – Best Foot Forward, Random Posts Widget and Tag Functions – give me functionality that I [...]

My WordPress plugins

I have created a page with the WordPress plugins that I use at my blogs. There are posts about various plugins here, now I have a list of what is currently used. My intention is to keep the page up to date.

Using WordPress as a business directory

I use hosted WordPress for my blogs and also as a CMS for my coaching business at Key Coaching. When using WordPress as a CMS (content management system) the emphasis is on using pages, not blog posts.
Since I find WordPress easy to work with and also tweak themes myself I wanted to use Wordpress for [...]

SEO from a layman perspective

I must confess that I thought SEO, search engine optimization, was something consultants sold to the big guys and not for small blogs like mine.
More for the sake of it I did install the All in One SEO Pack in WordPress, put in on automatic (the plugin autocreates SEO keywords and excerpt) and forgot about [...]