WordPress Search Engine Optimisation

I manage several websites at work and have therefore learnt something about search engine optimisation (SEO). Our main site at work uses WordPress as the content manager, which has good SEO features by default. Last week we launched a new website and I also refreshed the other sites, in so doing I found a great [...]

Posted on January 26, 2009 at 3:37 pm by Martin · Permalink · 3 Comments
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Hacking WordTwit into WordDent

I have quickly forked WordTwit into WordDent. WordDent is a WordPress plugin that utilizes the Twitter API to automatically push a published post to your Identi.ca account as a dent. It allows all your Identi.ca contacts to keep up to date with your blog postings. I’m still  just testing that WordDent works correctly. I’ll find [...]

Posted on January 23, 2009 at 6:24 pm by Martin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Blog post notifications to Twitter

I’ve just installed WordTwit on my blog. WordTwit keeps track of when you publish new posts, and automatically informs all of your followers by pushing out a Twitter tweet. All links are automatically convered to tiny URLs to save space.

Posted on January 17, 2009 at 10:45 am by Martin · Permalink · One Comment
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BloGTK, a weblog client for Linux

I have been meaning to setup a weblog client for a while now. I have tested a couple of weblogs clients and have settled on BloGTK. It has a simple user interface but comprehensive features, although I did need to define a few Custom Tags before the editor supported all the formatting options I wanted. [...]

Posted on January 11, 2008 at 1:44 pm by Martin · Permalink · 5 Comments
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Mandingo!

My website has had a change of clothes today, ain’t it purdy? I am now using the Mandingo theme. It is available in 7 colour schemes, has a number of configurable options and is compatible with WordPress 2.3

Posted on September 24, 2007 at 1:04 pm by Martin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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WordPress Static Page

I prefer to have a traditional home page which explains a little of what my website is about with menu navigation for visitors to read the blog or whatever. It wasn’t obvious how I could do this with WordPress, thankfully a quick Google turned up the answer in the discussion below… Difference between Front page [...]

Posted on September 23, 2007 at 11:26 am by Martin · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Flexion.Org is re-activated!

I have finally got around to re-activating this website after many months of neglect The first thing to do was move away from Jaws. Sadly, my Jaws installation is broken in a way that newer Jaws releases plain refuse to upgrade it. So, I did some research and decided to migrate to WordPress since it [...]

Posted on September 22, 2007 at 11:22 am by Martin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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