Archive of Category: Wordpress

Weberz is pleased to announce the release of our first Wordpress plugin, Comment Link Manager.  While trying to find solutions to the problems introduced by PageRank sculpting no longer working and the nofollow tag being worthless, we decided to create the comment link manager plugin.  The idea was to design a Wordpress plugin that allowed admins to disable comment author links until that user has posted an admin specified number of comments.  This can help encourage users to comment more by rewarding them with links from your blog. (…)

Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of Wordpress, announced the official release of Wordpress 2.8.  According to Matt’s blog post on wordpress.org, the new release has greatly improved the speed of the system due to changes in the way Wordpress does styling and scripting.  Matt also mentions in his announcement that WP 2.8 has over 180 new features and more then 790 bug fixes. (…)

Let us start by giving a nice big thanks to experts in the SEO community.  It’s likely because of them that there are literally thousands, possibly millions, of Wordpress installations that setup with less than optimal settings.  Many unsuspecting and uneducated users look to this group of experts for ideas and techniques to improve their search engine rankings and to gather more website traffic.  Little do these users know that even some of the most popular people in this group of experts are handing out bad advice regarding how to setup Wordpress systems. (…)

About six to eight months ago I found myself having problems getting enough time out of the day to manage a custom website for Weberz on top of fixing servers, answering support tickets, and generally trying to conduct business on a day to day basis.  So I decided to look into making at least one of those jobs easier by converting our website to be managed by a Wordpress installation.  The general idea was to use Wordpress as a CMS system and a blog platform in a single installation of the software. 
The reason behind making such as change was simple.  Wordpress has such as huge following that the internet community at large has created plugins and themes for the system for almost every possible need.  This is great as it allows us to use those plugins rather then having to code custom pages in PHP on our old website to get similar features. (…)