They always say the best way to learn is by making mistakes – and that is certainly true with web hosts. In the past 10 years I’ve had 6 different webhosts. Out of those, only 2 of them are actually decent. It’s a sad fact that I’ve spent more time with bad hosts than with...

One awesome feature of WordPress is the ability to add in and use custom shortcodes in your posts to customize how your content looks. Shortcodes are bb-code style tags that you put right in your post, for example: [gallery] In this post I will give you a quick tutorial on how to create your own...

As old as it is, the robots meta tag can have a great effect on your blog’s SEO. One little trick I’ve used for the past few years is to allow all links to be followed, but only index certain pages. With WordPress this is as easy as putting this chunk of code in your...

Happy labor day everyone! Since apparently I can’t seem to go a day without doing work, I decided to put the finishing touches on a quick’n’dirty wordpress plugin I wrote for a few wordpress sites/blogs I maintain and release it. Nusuni Frame Buster is a simple plugin that will make your blog either break out...

One little annoyance with WordPress is the way it display post excerpts. Instead of doing the logical thing and doing a regular ellipsis at the end of the paragraph, it tries to get fancy with an ugly […] Fortunately for us it is really easy to switch: Open your theme’s functions.php file (create one if...