Seems like many users of WordPress received a nasty surprise when upgrading from an older version to 2.8.  While looking for answers I found plenty of bad advice.  Even more annoying are the WordPress mods rushing to close discussion on threads working to discover a solution.  Luckily, I found a fix through trial and error.  As [...]

This tutorial is for those WordPress users who would like to add a simple image to their sidebar.   Sure, you could just add a text box widget and type in the HTML, but let me show you how I do it.  For this example I will use a 250×250 graphic advertising my CMF Ads March [...]

Even experienced WordPress users may suddenly notice their blogs loading slowly.  Despite properly installing WP-Supercache, something just isn’t right.  In the case of turnipofpower.com it turned out to be too many objects.  Yep, my blog was bloated!  Just check out the before image below as measured by Pingdom Tools.  9.4 second loading time, 54 total objects, [...]

I once laughed when a friend used WordPress 2.7′s auto plugin installer and temporarily hosed his blog.  He had uploaded a zipped file that wasn’t a plugin at all.  All he had to do was remember his shared hosting login and delete the plugin from the directory.  But it made for some comical  “OMG, what [...]

I’ve been a longtime fan of  WP Super Cache for WordPress.  It works as advertised and significantly lowers page generation times and stress on your WordPress database.  Today I compare it to a new caching plugin called DB Cache Plugin.  It claims to be faster because it caches the php calls rather than the entire page.  Do these claims [...]

If you look below each post on Turnipofpower.com you will see a collection of social media buttons created by the AddToThis WordPress plugin.   I really like this plugin for both it’s looks and the ability to easily customize it.  Ironically, the author of this plugin is now using the ShareThis WordPress Plugin and not his [...]

If you write your posts in a busy family environment as I do, you learn to hate WordPress post revisions.  Despite WordPress’s built in autosave feature, I like to save often, walk away, scream at the kids and then return to my writing.   By the time I’m finally satisfied with a post I’ve accumulated 20 revisions, thus creating [...]

I spent the recent holiday cleaning up Turnipofpower.com.  Changing permalinks, removing database clutter, and fixing dead links were the three primary tasks performed.  All of these areas deserve a separate post, so today I am going to focus on fixing dead links. Dead links are links that give an error when you click on them.  Turns [...]

***Note*** Jack from the erratic and eclectic Room 237 Writing Room correctly points out that I too am using a plugin to add the nofollow tag.  In order for you to see the screenshots below, you need to install the TinyMCE Advanced plugin.  This tiny plugin is so wonderful, I will dedicate the next article to it.  It [...]

If you check my comments you will find very little comment spam.  That’s because I use a number of methods to reduce a spammer’s chance of getting through.  You can divide these techniques into 3 categories.  Plugins, Settings, and Policies. Plugins:  The endless source of plugins are what makes WordPress the content management system of [...]