To post videos from YouTube or Google Video on a WordPress site can be a bit frustrating.
Pasting the code into the HTML editor of the Write Post area of WordPress does not work. I also tried to use a plugin to get the videos to appear, but this turned out to be harder than I […]
We chose to use FeedBurner for our SEO Tutorials feed, as it has a number of features not available from within WordPress. These include the ability to track how many people are subscribing to the RSS feed, what feed readers and aggregators are being used and what bots have visited the feed.
FeedBurner also offers other […]
As mentioned before SEO Tutorials is using a number of WordPress plugins. These are (at the time of writing):
Another Wordpress Meta Plugin – Allows easy insertion of meta keywords and meta description tags into posts. Can be useful for SEO.
Feedburner Feed Replacement – Forwards the default RSS feed to FeedBurner. This allows us the ability […]
Plugins are very useful in WordPress sites, as they add more functionality and depth to the site. At the time of writing, SEO Tutorials is using eight separate plugins, with more not yet setup. Good resources for plugins are http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins, and http://wp-plugins.net/, although there are many others.
As there are so many available, it may be […]
In WordPress, there is a clear difference between posts and pages, but it might not be obvious for beginners.
A post is simply a post in a blog. It is an article that is posted into a category, and is often topical and date relative.
A page is a static page on the site that does not […]
The theme we chose for SEO Tutorials is called Tulip Time by Highlands by Design. This theme was chosen as it is supposed to be quite SEO friendly. Other themes can be found here. We then modified the theme after installing it to give SEO Tutorials its own unique look.
Modifying the look of the theme […]
For SEO Tutorials, we wanted to use a simple content management system that could use both features of blogs, and appear as a ‘normal’ site. We wanted to be able to set the site up quite quickly and not have to become experts at coding, which we aren’t! For this reason, we decided to not […]