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Simple Link Cloaker for WordPress
WordPress Plugins From a marketing point of view, it’s important to cloak your links. Cloaking links is a little deceiving in some ways as the URL is hiding the true destination of the link. Unfortunately, many spammers use this technique to mislead visitors into where they are going. Though there are good reasons why legitimate bloggers and marketers use cloaking. The most obvious one being presentation. The link www.bloggingtips.com/go/websitename looks ...
Continue readingTheme Forest Make Amends
WordPress Themes Last week I spoke about the problem I had with Theme Forest. Specifically, the theme I purchased wasn’t working correctly and neither the theme designer nor Envato support were answering my emails. Thankfully, the issue has now been resolved. Chris Wallace was away for a few weeks so wasn’t able to reply to customers. He has posted an updated zip file on Theme Forest. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to work. Though at the very ...
Continue readingTerrible Support From Theme Forest
WordPress Themes Theme Forest is a theme marketplace which sells templates for WordPress, Joomla and standard CSS websites. There are hundreds of templates within the store. The website is owned by Envato, who run several similar graphic stores. Unlike most other WordPress theme stores, ThemeForest do not actually design the themes themselves. Instead, they take a commission for allowing designers to sell their themes to a large audience. Because of this, there ...
Continue readingWordPress 2.9.1 Released
WordPress WordPress 2.9.1 was released yesterday to address some bugs which were in 2.9. In the announcement post Ryan Boren states that the scheduling bug has been resolved in 2.9 however the scheduled post I had set after I had upgraded missed it’s schedule so I had to install the Semiologic bug fix again. WordPress is a strange creature sometimes though with some people getting errors and others not, so you might be lucky enough not to have to ...
Continue readingHow to stop the blank page after leaving a comment in WordPress?
WordPress Coding & Design After resolving the scheduling bug in WordPress 2.9, I noticed that I was getting sent to a blank page after leaving a comment here. The comment would post but you had to hit the back button and then reload to find this out. I tried a few things the other day but put it to the back of my head until Rob Starr reminded me about the problem tonight. Here’s the problem. After leaving a comment you are sent to ...
Continue readingOfficial WordPress App for Android Coming Soon
WordPress Rumours have been flying around the last few days that WordPress are due to release an official app for Android, Googles operating system for mobile phones. Google have already released official apps for iPhone and Blackberry so it’s a good move, especially when you consider the growing popularity of Android (dozens of Android mobile phones are being released over the next year). Darnell Clayton from The Blog Herald noticed that they have ...
Continue readingHow to set your geographic target in Webmaster Tools
Search Engine Optimisation The easiest way to ensure Google recognises your blog is targeted towards a specific region is to buy a localised TLD (Top Level Domain). For example, if I was launching a blog about restaurants in London I would register a .co.uk domain so that the blog would list high on Google UK search results. However, there are times when you will not be using a localised TLD. This may be because the domain you want has already been registered though you ...
Continue readingHow to fix the missed schedule bug in WordPress 2.9
WordPress Yesterday (December 31st), there were 3 posts scheduled for BloggingTips, all of which had been written and set to publish using the WordPress schedule feature. One from myself, Sharon Hurley Hall and Patti Stafford. Unfortunately, none of the posts published at the times they were supposed to. I checked the post area in WordPress and I got the message ‘Missed Schedule’. I had never came across this before and assumed that my server ...
Continue readingSet Your Blogging Goals For 2010
Blogging You are probably sick of all the best of articles that have been written the last week around the web though I do think that this is a great time to look at your blog and think about what you would like to improve in 2010. I personally believe that the goals you set should motivate you to work your butt off, though they need to be achievable too. There’s no point setting a goal to reach 10,000 subscribers if you only have 100 just now as ...
Continue readingMerry Christmas Bloggers
Site News Just a quick note to wish you all a Merry Christmas. Hope you are all taking some much needed time off from blogging to spend time with your family and catch up with old friends. Charge your batteries up over the next week so that you can start the new year with a bang!
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