Before jumping in to tell you how to improve your Wordpress blog’s search functionality, let me first tell you why you need to do it. If you do a google search for "wordpress search functionality", you’ll find a lot of blogs complaining about it. I knew long back that Wordpress’s poor functionality was poor. But, [...]
Which Permalink Structure To Choose ? What the Pros say…
Permalink is a portmanteau made from permanent link. Wikipedia defines it as "a URL that points to a specific blog or forum entry after it has passed from the front page to the archives." Wordpress offers you different types of permalinks to choose from like :
/year/month/date/post-name/
/post-name/
?p=post-number
/archives/post-number/
Also, you can create your own [...]
Saving Drafts – A Way To Remain Motivated
I’ve read that the Problogger Darren Rowse has a folder called "posts in progress", which is filled with text files of half finished posts. In the past, I never followed the practice and thought it wasn’t just worth it. But, after I started using Windows Live Writer, I started saving a lot (really, a [...]
Taste Wordpress 2.7, Get Used To It
The entire blogosphere is talking about Wordpress 2.7. Every day I see one blog or the other posting about Wordpress 2.7. Now, today its release candidate 2 has been released. The total hype is about the very much redesigned Dashboard. With the vertical navigation, dashboard widgets etc. it is going to be notably different from [...]
Comment Consistently For Loyal Readers
Commenting on other related blogs is one of the best methods of driving traffic to your blog. Not to mention, it also brings some link juice if the host blog has Do Follow enabled, or has the Top Commentators plugin installed. But getting traffic from commenting is something uncertain. For example, blogs like John Chow [...]