I just posted a link to a particularly good blog post on my Facebook page and someone said that my permalink URLs, that are of the form “?p=39”, are bad. What’s wrong with them and how do I fix it in Wordpress?
After struggling with YouTube embed code for months, a friend just told me that I can have the YouTube URL on its own line and Wordpress itself creates the proper embed. Awesome! What else can I embed?
I host my own Wordpress blog and am pretty good with the backend work. My question: Is there a good plug-in for adding “subscribe to this blog via email” capabilities?
I don’t want to have a widget on my blog that shows what I’m doing on Instagram, I want to actually embed Instagram photos in blog posts directly. Is that possible?
Just moved from Blogger to Wordpress and now I am apparently responsible for keeping all my themes, plugins and Wordpress itself updated. What’s the easiest way to do that?
If I’m reviewing wineries, can I get some of them as advertisers? If I’m reviewing books, can I get authors to participate and publishers to advertise or sponsor? If I’m doing photographs, is it conceivable that someone would want to pay me to go take photos of something for them? In other words, how does one establish commercial value if it exists?
I’ve been waffling between using the “www” on my new site and not using it and a colleague told me that’s a problem with the search engine. She said I need to set the “preferred domain” in Google Webmaster Tools (GWT). How do I do that?
I’ve been migrating my Web site from blogspot.com to my own domain and a friend who is SEO savvy told me that all the redirects I do should be 301’s. I have no idea what that means. Dave, what’s a 301 redirect and why does it matter?
