Recent Posts Tagged With 'wordpress'

• Running WordPress on Your Computer – Part 2

  Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 07:12 in blog, Microsoft, wordpress, iis, web platform

  In my first article Running WordPress on Your Computer, I explained how to go about downloading the tools you need to run WordPress locally on your PC so you can design themes, development plugins or just stay on top of the WordPress beta releases th...

• Joost on Automattic’s VideoPress

  Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 07:42 in blogging, wordpress, plugin, joost de valk, yoast

  If you’re a blogger and would like to include video on your WordPress.com or self hosted WordPress.org blog, you might want to give Automattic’s VideoPress a try. You’ll need a WordPress.com account (Free) and VideoPress will cost ...

• Blog Comment Policies

  Posted on Thursday August 27th, 2009 at 23:56 in blogging, wordpress, disqus

  While writing about How to Stop Blog Comment Spam, I realized that all the comment policies I’ve read over the last couple years were starting to make sense.  I’ve read a few and thought I’d start implementing a comments policy mys...

• How to Stop Blog Comment Spam

  Posted on Wednesday August 26th, 2009 at 22:28 in blogging, wordpress, plugin, bot, captcha, wp super cache, wp-spamfree, wp captcha-free

  One of my blogs was overwhelmed last week with quite a bit of comment spam.  Luckily my host locked it down for me until I resolved the issue.  Not too much fun when your site is shut down, but here are some remedies that will help you avoid your s...

• How to Send Twitter Retweets to Your Blog Comments

  Posted on Monday June 15th, 2009 at 07:00 in wordpress, blogs, plugins, twitter, tweetmeme, chat catcher

  When you start a new blog it can seem like no one is listening.  What has come to be a standard practice in the blogging world is to visit other blogs that are in your niche or blog topic and leave meaningful comments on articles that you really...

• SimpleViewer - A WordPress Image Gallery Plugin

  Posted on Thursday March 5th, 2009 at 21:21 in wordpress, photo gallery, wordpress plugins, image gallery

  I’ve been looking for a WordPress image/photo gallery plugin that is simple to setup and has a great viewer that is customizable, and has an esthetically pleasing look. I found one - SimpleViewer. You can download SimpleViewer from the WordPr...

• WordPress Plugins for March 4, 2009

  Posted on Wednesday March 4th, 2009 at 20:58 in wordpress, wordpress plugins, twitter, wordpress hacks, smashing magazine, twitpic

  Here are 5 WordPress plugins that will enhance your WordPress environment and possibly make your blog a bit better. 1. All in One Video Pack The All in One Video Pack by Kaltura, looks like, well, the All in One Video Pack.     I have not used thi...

• 27 WordPress Plugins I Have Installed

  Posted on Wednesday February 25th, 2009 at 21:33 in SEO, comments, wordpress, bloggers, Sitemaps

  Here’s a screen capture of the WordPress Plugins I have installed on my blog.  I’ve talked about them in some of my posts but here’s a screen capture you can click on and view a larger image if you’d like to check them out yo...

• Thirteen SEO Definitions

  Posted on Sunday February 22nd, 2009 at 21:33 in search engine optimization, wordpress, serps, bots, organic search results, web crawlers

  After summarizing Google’s Search Engine Optimization Start Guide, I thought I’d provide an SEO definitions page for those folks who are new to SEO or just need to know what’s what.  So here are Thriteen SEO Definitions.  Mind you...

• Running WordPress on Your Computer

  Posted on Wednesday February 18th, 2009 at 21:14 in php, MySQL, wordpress, xampp, xampplite

  Hi folks, this blog post is about working with WordPress and more specifically working with WordPress locally on your computer. By locally, I mean installing and running WordPress on your PC and not over the Internet on a Web Server.  I’m wor...

• What is Domain Age?

  Posted on Sunday February 15th, 2009 at 20:49 in blog, search engine optimization, wordpress, web host, website, URL, domain name, serps

  I’ve always wanted to start a website using my name as the domain name - billbolmeier.com. I didn’t really think about what I’d do with the website so I held back from registering it, until blogging came along. First Things First: ...

• Related Posts Plugin

  Posted on Wednesday January 28th, 2009 at 21:19 in google, wordpress, wordpress plugins, matt cutts, daily blog tips, daniel scocco, web tools collection

  Contextual Related Posts Plugin Contextual Related Posts Plugin is a plugin that displays - related posts at your blog. I started using one of the standard related posts plugins called Yet Another Related Posts Plugin, but noticed it only showed one ...

• Working with WordPress

  Posted on Wednesday January 14th, 2009 at 21:20 in Internet Marketing, blogging, wordpress, blogs, web hosts, domain names, fantastico

  For those who don’t know, WordPress is a blogging platform that I talked about in Starting a Blog. Blogging consists of writing posts that are listed in chronological order from newest to oldest.  This can include posts on family life, review...

• Welcome To Bill Bolmeier’s Blog

  Posted on Monday November 10th, 2008 at 20:32 in web hosting, wordpress, General, domain name, hostgator, bill bolmeier

  Hi folks and welcome to my blog.  This is my first blog post and I’m using a self-hosted WordPress blog.  My domain name is billbolmeier.com and this blog is hosted on HostGator, a web hosting service. I thought it would be a good idea to sec...