Using WordPress as a CMS often for client sites I use custom fields perhaps quite a bit more than the regular WordPress user. Still, I’ve received quite a few requests to write about the use of custom fields in WordPress, so in this post I’ll cover the ins and outs of WordPress custom fields.
Read more →If you use custom loops in WordPress you may run into pagination issues. Specifically, no matter what page you’re on, only the first page’s worth of posts are displayed. Here’s a really quick solution to that problem using the query_posts() function.
Read more →I recently worked on a project that required the ability to only allowed logged-in users access to a particular page. Here’s how I got it done.
Read more →What I like about ExpressionEngine when compared to WordPress and my final thoughts on the commercial CMS from EllisLab.
Read more →I know how tough it can be to come out of that weekend relaxation mode and jump straight into work mode bright and early every Monday morning, so here’s a little chain letter joke I received that I thought was pretty funny.
Read more →Here’s a video from Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s web spam team. If you want to know Google’s position on various SEO methods, this is the guy to turn to. Here’s a video where Matt gives us some insight into “PageRank sculpting,” a fancy term for selectively linking to various pages on your own site in order to direct the PageRank in the most desired locations. You can find Matt’s blog at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/.
Read more →In this article I teach you how to use Apache’s mod_rewrite to redirect all visitors to the www version of your domain. I’ll also cover the reverse for those that want to send visitors to the non-www version only.
Read more →Lately I’ve been tinkering around with ExpressionEngine, the popular commercial CMS from Ellis Labs. There are some great things about the software and some really, really bad things. In this post I’ll cover the basics of what I didn’t like about the $300 content management system.
Read more →In this tutorial I take you through the fairly simple process of setting a static homepage for your WordPress site and moving the blog page to another location, like /blog/.
Read more →This article explains how to allow other users access to your Yahoo Search Marketing account. This is something I do when managing Yahoo PPC campaigns. Yahoo has three access levels, any of which you can assign to new users on your account.
Read more →This is a follow-up to the previous article about adding a new user to Yahoo search marketing. In this article I’ll cover adding a new user to Microsoft’s equivalent of Yahoo! Search Marketing and Google AdWords, known as adCenter.
Read more →This is a followup to the previous two articles about adding users to MSN adCenter and Yahoo Search Marketing PPC advertising platforms. In this article I’ll walk you through adding a new user to your Google Analytics statistics account.
Read more →Google’s recently added the ability to target Pay Per Click campaigns to specific areas by simply drawing a border on a map around the area you want to target. Any searches inside that area will see your ads. This is one way of implementing “Geographical Targeting” and this article explains how to set it up.
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