Hiding download pages and other pages from search engines

As you develop your website you will no doubt have various pages that are “backend” pages.   These pages might include download pages, thank you pages, policy pages, or whatever.   For web marketing we optimize our sites for search engines and we do not want these types of pages to show up in search engines.…

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Using categories on WordPress pages

One of the differences between WordPress Pages and Posts is that Posts can have a category assigned to them, whereas pages cannot.  Frankly, I think that is just dumb… why shouldn’t pages have the ability to have categories assigned.  Well, I’m not the only one that think pages should have categories and there are several…

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Simple Local Avatars

Here’s a situation for you… let’s say that a visitor has a Gravatar profile set up to display a picture whenever they author or comment on a WordPress site.  That generally works quite well and makes your site more personable.  But what if either you, as the site owner, or the visitor, want to have…

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WordPress Plugins for the TinyMCE Editor

Alternatives and Enhancements to the WordPress TinyMCE Editor Love it, or hate it… The editor in wordpress sure does have it’s frustraiting behaviors.  WordPress uses a custom version of the TinyMCE editor, and they seem to have really hacked it up in many ways.  It is very frustraiting to have formating stripped away from something you’ve…

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