So, you have all of this content on your website, and you publish new post regularly. What do you do with posts that have content that is still fresh today (also known as evergreen content)? Do you leave it collecting dust in your article archives? If you aren’t doing anything with your older articles, you’re
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Dear WordPressers: Plugins aren’t Pokémon
Dear WordPressers: Plugins are NOT Pokemon. You do not need to collect them all. Sure, I could just leave this there, but honestly, there are a lot of people, of beginner and intermediate levels that have made this mistake. How do I know? Well, part of my job is working with people to clean their
[Continue Reading...]Commentluv: Misunderstood and Abused
Commentluv, in my honest opinion, is one of the most misunderstood and abused plugins in WordPress. Even with over Commentluv having over 900,000 downloads (as of October 2015), some of the users can’t really understand what it’s for. When Andy Bailey created Commentluv, back in 2009, it was during the time in the blogosphere where
[Continue Reading...]WordPress Plugin: Hello WP User
A few weeks ago, right before publishing my 5 Really Cool Hello Dolly Alternatives post, I created the Hello WP User Plugin. I’ve always been a fan of the Hello Dolly plugin. However, it’s always been used as a novelty. While it’s a great example of simple WordPress plugin development, it’s always been used for
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Google Analytics for WordPress is a plugin that makes it easy for both the basic and advanced user to implement Google Analytics into any website. It does require signing up for Google Analytics and adding your website, in order to track traffic. Let me clarify… it has the ability to help track your site in
[Continue Reading...]WordPress Plugin Review: Widget Logic
Widget Logic is a plugin for WordPress that allows the user to designate what widgets go on specific pages, posts, categories, and more. This is a plugin that requires you to know WordPress conditional tags and Boolean markup. Also, some of the conditional tags that are most obviously, sometimes do not work in the way
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