I have been using WordPress ever since I started blogging here on Ghacks in 2005. It has been a pleasant ride most of the time, with the occasional rough bump down the road. As a WordPress administrator, you have access to thousands of different plugins that extend or improve the blog’s functionality. One issue that [...]

Categories: Web Development

I recently noticed that my WordPress blog’s page loading times increased through the roofs which made me reevaluate everything that contributed to the loading times of the website. I implemented a few changes on the blog to improve page loading times. I first got rid of the three social networking buttons pointing to Google Plus, [...]

Categories: Web Development

With the release of WordPress 3.2 came a redesign of the admin interface, and with that a gruesome new font, line heights and margins. The new design looked that terrible that I – for the first time ever – switched from the plain HTML editor to the visual editor. The visual editor uses an eye [...]

Categories: Web Development

Blogging with WordPress is an easy, quick way to get your posts to viewers without sitting down and plugging through an entire website of code yourself. However, there are certain aspects of the program that cause some users pause. For example, many posts benefit from a nice, clean thumbnail seated just to the left of [...]

Categories: Web Development

I’m currently working a bit on the technical backend of this WordPress blog. You may know that I have started to create custom category pages for each blog category (like Windows, Firefox or Google) here at Ghacks which allowed me to add custom contents to each. I have added a custom heading and a short [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

Tags are an essential part of nearly every WordPress blog. Webmasters use tags to categorize posts. One side-effect of tagging posts in WordPress is that these tags are sometimes indexed by search engines. Visitors from those search engines will then see a page containing excerpts of the posts that have been tagged with that tag. [...]

Categories: The Web, Tools

I received an email from Matthew a few hours ago who asked if there was a possibility to exclude certain categories from my website from appearing in the RSS feed. I was really busy with a website that I purchased earlier this morning and could not answer immediately. The good news is that it is [...]

Categories: The Web, Tutorials Basic

WordPress is already well optimized when it comes to SEO (that’s Search Engine Optimization). There are some basic changes that are usually performed like changing the link structure to include the title of the articles or displaying the title of the article in the web browser’s title. Most users stop here, some go ahead and [...]

Categories: The Web

A WordPress blog post consists of a handful of elements like the title and body but also tags, categories and comments. Tag pages usually display excerpts of all posts that use the same tag. One example: If you search for Windows 7 Download on Google you find that a tag page for my website Windows [...]

Categories: Tutorials Advanced