Tag Archives: Wordpress

Stop Breaking Your Wordpress Theme With Plugins – Use The If “Function-Exists” Option

For bloggers, nothing is more disheartening than a blank page with one line of an error description calling a PHP function that Wordpress doesn’t recognize. This error may be created by many different situations, such as a new plugin or renaming files in your web server, but the end result still breaks your Wordpress blog [...]

Posted in Wordpress Coding | Also tagged Code, Wordpress Plugins, Wordpress Templates | 18 Comments

Is Your Wordpress Slow Loading? Make It 3 Times As Fast In Under A Minute

With one line of code, you can speed up Wordpress to 3x as fast loading than before. By doing this, you give any reader the content you have written at a faster rate, giving them less of a chance to click the back button. This reduces your bounce rate (which I’m going to write about [...]

Posted in Tutorials | Also tagged Bandwidth, Data compression, Gzip, Languages, PHP, Programming, Web browser | 48 Comments

Destroy Your Current Blog With This Awesome Tool

If you are at all curious about editing your Wordpress theme or trying to code your own template, this program will please you in ways that generic templates never could. I love to tweak Wordpress to the max and find this program to really enable me to do so. The program is called XAMPP and contains [...]

Posted in Blog Design | Also tagged XAMPP | 9 Comments

Why I Stay Away From “Wordpress Automatic Upgrade”

How would you like to go up to a random stranger, hand them your wallet, and expect them not to take anything? Your doing the same thing with your blog when you install the “Wordpress Automatic Upgrade” plugin. Not in a million years would I ever install such a plugin to “Automatically” install the latest version [...]

Posted in Unique Widgets | Also tagged UPdate, Wordpress 2.5 | 14 Comments

Change Your Wordpress Permalink Structure

If your serious about S.E.O. and gaining higher rankings on the search engines, you need to change your ‘default’ Wordpress permalink structure into something that includes your keywords. Before we get started, lets find out what a permalink is:In simple terms, A permalink is the actual URL of an article or blog post. The previous [...]

Posted in How To | Also tagged Permalink | 11 Comments

Bradblogging Custom Theme – Anyone Interested?

I really enjoy creating websites and it is a hobby of mine. So much infact, that I have created a “Web Design” firm over at www.freshneverfrozendesign.com to show a tidbit of what I can create. Have a look if your interested. Alright time to get to the point, which is asking the readers of [...]

Posted in Blog Design | Also tagged Template, Wordpress Templates | 6 Comments