When a WordPress Plugin breaks your website
Has this ever happened to you? You install a new WordPress plugin (or upgrade a plugin you are already using) and all of a sudden your website is throwing up errors. In fact, it’s so bad that you can’t even log in to the WordPress dashboard to disable the plugin. Is your WordPress website broken beyond repair? Of course not. Here’s the quick and easy solution to this problem. What you need to do is hide the offending plugin from WordPress. Once WordPress can’t find your plugin folder – as it was activated within the WordPress dashboard – the plugin will...
Read MoreWordPress Triggering McAfee VBS\Psyme VirusSDcan Alert
Another Sunday night rolls around and I’m blogging on the couch, occasionally switching channels between to less than average movies. I go to upload an image to my blog post and McAfee throws up an alert saying the script has been stopped due to a VBS\Psyme trojan detection! This is obviously very concerning, so I disconnect my computer from the internet and run a deep scan. Almost an hour later, nothing is found. I tentatively reconnect and resume my work, but once again, when I go to upload an image, or switch from the Visual to HTML editor, McAfee throws up an alert and disables the...
Read MoreHow To Update WordPress
As a WordPress webmaster, you need to know how to update WordPress and keep it up to date. Keeping your WordPress installation up to date is a simple procedure these days. Prior to WordPress 2.7 (released in December 2008) you had to update WordPress manually. Obviously I’m not talking about getting out the hammer and nails… When I say “manually”, I mean manually uploading all the new files to your web host, which could be particularly time consuming, especially if you had several different sites. I had about about 50. So you can imagine my joy when I discovered a...
Read MoreGoogle’s “Panda” Update
Late in February, Google began rolling out what’s affectionately known as the Panda update (aka the Farmer update) aimed at identifying low-quality web pages and sites in its search index. This substantial change to their search algorithm has wreaked havoc for many webmasters, but the strategy is sound; Google simply aims to provide the best search results for any query. The main victim in this update has been the so-called “content farms” which provide text that may appear relevant for a certain query, but does not provide the best user experience. Google calls it a...
Read MoreBasic SEO Principles for WordPress Blogs
WordPress is a free and open source blog publishing application. For a free and open source program, it is extremely powerful. I use it almost exclusively, not just for blogs but as a Content Management System (CMS). One of the reasons I use it so frequently is because the search engines – especially Google – seems to love the pages it builds. It creates a linking structure that makes it easy for spiders to crawl your pages, and the code rarely contains validation errors. After your initial install, there are a few additional steps that you can take in order to make your WordPress...
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