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Free Site Monitoring – Pingdom

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In the past few weeks I’ve had a couple of questions regarding website monitoring, my first choice used to be “AlertFox” as you could go much deeper than just pinging the web server and script actions for the site to follow. However they’ve[AlertFox] gone to a completely chargeable structure , even though they offer 30 days free, $49 a month is too much for most and I’ve found and cruically … [Full Article >> ]

Part 2: My Top 20 Free WordPress Plugins (And Why)

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One of the huge reasons for WordPress being the number one CMS, besides it being free & there being countless development resources available for it, is because there are thousands of plugins & extensions for WordPress. Some are free, some are paid for. I’ve been through hundreds of plugins, I’ve found really useless ones and I’ve found fabtastic ones. Its some of these “fabtastic” ones I’m going to share with … [Full Article >> ]

My #2 Pet Hate of Poor WebSite Design – Blog Navigation

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Following on from early article on My #1 Pet Hate of Poor WebSite Design this one gets #2 place as it drives just as bonkers as the first one. Can you see it yet? The owners of this blog know the issue, they have tried to combat it. Spotted it yet? Blog Navigation Yep, its the home link in the top left. Firstly lets not diss this company, their rankings were … [Full Article >> ]

Dealing with WordPress Spam Comments – Two Viable Solutions

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Ignoring Askami from the conversion which will capture almost all comment spam, you may feel that there is little you can do to stop the wades of WordPress spam comments from being left. Yes, you could add a captua to the comments box, there are several wordpress plugins that do this, but me being a geek prefer more server based options, here are two of my favourites both with the same … [Full Article >> ]

Yoast WordPress Breadcrumbs Plugin

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Taking the advice from yesterdays post ‘Google SEO Starter Guide Updated’ on adding a breadcrumb to the sites theme, I remembered seeing a plugin from Yoast.com a few days back. Installation was done in seconds, almost like every other WordPress plugin, unfortunately the auto insert option did not work, however within a few pastes in the files page.php, search.php and single.php it was in and working. If you’re an avid blogger and … [Full Article >> ]



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