WordPress feed from Hummerbie

WordPress Items and Plugins used in the Blog

Sun, 27 May 2007 21:15:03 +0000

In case you haven't see it, this site is accamponied by a WordPress Blog:
http://blog.hummerbie.com

Here is a list of Plugins and Other stuff used on that Blog

SEO Plugins

SEO Title Tag Plugin
All-in-One-SEO-Pack
Google Sitemap Generator
Related Items

Other Plugins

Askimet
Slimstat XTD
Subscribe to Comments
WordPress FeedSmith
WP-Cache

What to do with your WordPress Themes

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 07:10:21 +0000

For the layout of a WordPress Blog you use themes..

But where can you find these themes, are they free?
Have the Sponsor Links in them, or are they Search Engine Optimized...

Are there Designers specialist in WordPress Designs and how do you find them..

How can you change the Layout of a Theme, or just Customize some parts of the Design..

Those are a lot of Quistions, so I have split it into several pages each giving you information about the topic of your intrest at this moment...

Free WordPress Themes

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:40:20 +0000

Here are some great site to get your WordPress Themes

http://www.wpthemesfree.com/

http://themes.wordpress.net/

http://wpthemepark.com/themes

If you are looking for some really great WordPress CMS Templates that are well designed and not to expensive check out:

WordPress Permalinks Optimal settings

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:40:34 +0000

Basic On-Page WordPress Search Engine Optimization always start with Search Engine Friendly URLs.

You can set these via the Option Permalinks in your WordPress administration Panel.
But be aware that for these setting to work, you need to be on an Apache Web server that has Mod_Rewrite active and working!

If you are on a widows based hosting package, there is no way to achieve SEF URLs, and you have to settle for the standard produced by WordPress.

The easy way

The easiest way the get a good working .htaccess file is this:

How to use the All-in-One-SEO-pack plugin

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:10:34 +0000

Using the All-in-One-SEO-Pack plugin is one of the best plugins to use if you want to optimize your WordPress installation for better Search Engine results.

Installing All-in-One-SEO-pack

Installing the plugin is simple and straight forward like any other WordPress plugin.

Download
Unzip
Upload via FTP to wp-content/plugins
Activate the plugin and your off

One thing to be aware of, make sure your template uses the code in the header.php of your template.

This is where the All-in-One-SEO-pack will write your Metatags Description and Keywords so they will show up in your code.
Check this by looking at the source code of your blog post to see if it works!

There are a lot of options in the general options of All-in-One-SEO-pack and you should check the ones you want to use.
Personally I don't use the Title rewrite option because those are handled by the SEO Title Tags plugin.

Using All-in-One-SEO-pack

WordPress and Blogging Books

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:53:55 +0000

below you can find a small collection of WordPress Blogging and Bloggers books that I really like and that can take you to the next level in Blogging.

There will also be books on Joomla, as this is what this website is Build on.

Want to know how to build your own WordPress site, visit Building a Static website with WordPress

The Difference between WordPress Pages and Posts

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:42:10 +0000

If you login to WordPress you have two big options in your administration dashboard: "Write a new page" and "Write a new post".

The thing here is that in version 2.6. of WordPress the order of those two changed, first it was the Post and then the Page...
Looks like WordPress is heading to a more CMS Like software, most currently if we look at the new 2.7 Dashboard.

But one thing remains, Pages and Posts...

It is simply a matter of knowing what to use for what purpose.

WordPress Posts

Posts are really what makes WordPress so great for Blogging, Post will be presented in a time-line.
This means that the latest post will show up first before the rest of the Blog entries.

Posts can also be attached to categories, pages can't (unless we use a special Plugin)

In the archive pages there will be Posts that are labeled to belong to those Category or Tag.
You can also have Monthly archives and even Author Archives, but the are always in a Chronological order.

WordPress Pages

Pages are more static and that means you can use them any way you want to structure your WordPress website.
Pages are the way to go if you want to Build a Static WordPress website

There is a great Plugin called My Page Order that can help order your pages.
Pages can also be placed as a subpage to a Main page.

Managing page orders is with this Plugin as simple as dragging and dropping, but don't forget the hit save afterwards...

Best Premium WordPress Themes

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:39:55 +0000

There are a large number of websites now that provide premium WordPress Themes or provide/sell Support packeges for their GPL Based WP Themes.

Here are some of the better know ones and some you mioght not have seen yet: