Watch out!  If you use WordPress, have shared hosting, and not running a caching program then you are headed for trouble.  Without caching, each time your page loads it uses the SQL database and cpu time on the shared server.  Too many people loading pages at once can lead to slow load times or the [...]

Yahoo Buzz is a new Digg-like article voting system by Yahoo.com.  When an article is voted up, it has the opportunity to appear on the front page of Yahoo.com, a very popular site indeed.  Simply add the code from Yahoo Buzz to your article or Website Template and you are finished.  Almost… There is one problem [...]

The following information was all taken from the Sezwho website.  It took me a few read throughs to actually understand that info, so hopefully I can simplify the instructions.  The point of this guide is to turn off the default plugin settings and only include the Sezwho elements you want to appear.  The benefit of doing [...]

Your site’s not really down.  If you give it a minute it will load once it times out trying to download the Sezwho CSS file.  If you check your browser status bar, it will say something like “connecting to sezwho.com”.  This happened before when Sezwho was under a DDOS attack.  A quick fix is to temporarily [...]

IFrameWidgets is a WordPress plugin that allows you to place widgets in an I-Frame, so they won’t stop the rest of the page from loading if the content loads slowly or hangs.  For those of you that have an entire sidebar full of social widgets, this is the Plugin for you!  If you look at the [...]

It’s been a long time since I last published a list of my favorite WordPress plugins. Half a year later have my tastes changed?  Yes, as have my needs.  I check for new plugins daily, always on the lookout for something better.  These days I use 20 plugins, not all of them activated.  Here are my [...]

I discovered a cool little trick using the All in One SEO Pack.  Many websites use this plugin for WordPress SEO purposes.  However, one feature of the plugin that usually went unused was the Additional Home, Post, and Page Headers.  As the author explains: What you enter here will be copied verbatim to your header on the [...]

There is no one foolproof method for securing your WordPress installation against attacks.  You simply follow a series of best practices against known attacks.  Some new hack can always come along tomorrow and make you vulnerable.  You do what you can and hope for the best.  The following is a quick guide to some precautions.  [...]

It’s a rare day indeed when I do something that benefits the entire WordPress community.   After reading various posts all promoting the No Follow cause, I decided to change my blog to No Follow and removed the no follow link from comments.  What that means is that after you leave 5 comments on my blog, [...]

What the hell does that mean?   Googling “speeding up WordPress”, I see people saying things like “Well, if you’ve already optimized your tables, then try this…”  After a bit more searching I finally figured it out.   Here is a step by step procedure to optimize your WordPress installation through your website control panel.  If your [...]