There’s a bug somewhere in MailPress 5.3 that prevents posts from being sent in your newsletter if they contain a featured image. I’m not exactly sure why this happens, but it appears to be related to MailPress’s attempt to reproduce the TwentyTen theme’s evil habit of [intlink id=”988″ type=”post”]changing your Read more…
The TwentyTen theme has an annoying feature which causes the image in your site header to be replaced by a post’s Featured Image. I have no idea what they were thinking, other than that the featured image wasn’t used anywhere else in the theme, so perhaps they should use it Read more…
The Simple Facebook Connect plugin is the best way I’ve come across to automatically update your Facebook wall and/or fan page when you post. It seems to do a better job than the Facebook plugin, and is free unlike Network Publisher who recently reduced the number of networks you can Read more…
Facebook have written their own plugin which allows you to update your Facebook status automatically via it’s Social Publishing feature. There are other plugins out there that can do this for you, but I thought I’d try the plugin written and maintained by the Facebook team themselves. It works, but there are a few things to look out for.
Having an automatic newsletter distributing your blog’s content to your readers is great; but it does have one downside: readers don’t have to visit your site to read your content, so you have less traffic than you otherwise would.
The solution to this is to have a Continue Reading… link in your newsletter. You start with a tasty introduction describing what you’re about to say in order to hook your readers, and then they click on the link in order to read the rest of the article on your site. So how do you do this?
One of the most annoying problems I encounter regularly with MailPress is the “Loading…” icon keeps spinning in the subscription form. Sometimes it spins before you’ve even done anything; other times it spins after form submission and never stops. It’s always some form of problem with the MailPress Javascript or Read more…
Want to advertise a product or service in your MailPress newsletter? I did this by adding a horizontal banner ad at the bottom of the newsletter email, just above the footer. Here’s how: Firstly, create a horizontal banner ad image using The Gimp or some other graphics editing package. Make Read more…
I’ve tried a few WordPress SEO plugins over the years, from All In One SEO Pack to Robots Meta and then to SEO Ultimate; but that was before Joost de Valk (a.k.a. Yoast) released WordPress SEO by Yoast which is now my SEO plugin of choice for WordPress. If you Read more…
WordPress has a neat feature that allows you to easily embed content from video sharing sites such as YouTube by simply writing the URL of the video you want to embed in your post, like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJM4697kLL4 When your post is displayed, this gets replaced with an iframe which contains Read more…
I’m getting way too many spammy comments from visitors who are clearly only interested in a dofollow backlink. Many of them look like they’ve been human generated but they’re not adding value, so I’ve decided to disable the Do Follow plugin on this blog. I no longer recommend this plugin Read more…