Lee HodsonI’ve learned, forgotten and thrown out more SEO tips over the past 5 years than I care to remember. Search engine algorithms change so fast it’s hard to keep up. Google’s algorithms have changed so much the past year that I feel like I’m doing the tango with it; and not always without treading on … Read more
Have you ever used MoneyGram? I needed to pay some money to a friend in Moldova for services he’s provided to one of my businesses. Watch this bit carefully: the services have already been provided and I want to pay for those services that have already been provided. This is a genuine transaction. Why have … Read more
The people at Jetpack, the WordPress plugin home to WP Stats, have made a 2011 fireworks display of posts published at JournalXtra. Fireworks displays should be shared so here it is. Best viewed in Chrome or Safari (Firefox is too slow), click the link and watch as rockets hurtle skyward for every post made at … Read more
This is a question I’m asked quite a lot by my clients at WP Service Masters. Maybe I should answer this there, and I will do at some point, but until I do, here’s an explanation of what a permalink is and why we use them. Just like desktop and laptop computers, web servers store … Read more
Friendly Gaming Simplifier, the free browser plugin used by hundreds of thousands of Facebook game players to make gaming more enjoyable has been forced to close by Facebook lawyers. The plugin is used to collect and send Facebook game gift requests and to collect game wall posts from a game player’s news feed. In a … Read more
They say it can’t be done. Read support requests in the WordPress forum and you’ll see lots of people saying it’s not possible to change the name of index.php to blog.php or site.php or anything else.php. But it can be done. I know it. I’ve done it. Here’s how… Change the Name of index.php Changing … Read more