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30 Common WordPress Mistakes

Cherished Solutions — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:59 +0000

30 Common Website/WordPress Mistakes by both Novices & Pro Authors

Allowing your content to be author-focused instead of reader-focused

Using WordPress.com instead of self-hosted WordPress (.org)

Using a generic or defective theme

Not designing for mobile use

Not optimizing pages and images for SEO

Not properly integrating social media

Not setting up the permalinks properly (A.K.A. ugly permalinks)

Too many categories, not enough tags

Letting it be too design heavy or too boring

Overwhelming your visitors
Too many navigation links
Too much on the home page
Too many pop-ups and moving graphics
Too many ads

Not using video to the best of your abilities

Not making it easy for visitors to connect with you on social media

Not making your book’s buy-now button easy to find

Not offering an easy way for visitors to get on your list (appealing incentives?)

Not using effective calls to action (where are you leading them?)

Not taking full advantage of the scripts that are available such as
Google XML Sitemaps
Contact Form 7
Akismet
All in One SEO Pack

Running too many unnecessary scripts

Trying to run e-commerce plugins on WordPress

Not posting on the blog often enough

Not having a regular backup of your database & site files

Not using Google Analytics

Not using Webmaster tools to get your site indexed

Ignoring Google Authorship Markup

Not using a Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatar)

Not customizing the Favicon

Not taking advantage tools like CDN and CACHE that help your site load faster

Ignoring WordPress updates

Going with a faulty hosting company just because it is cheaper

Not taking steps to further “harden” your WordPress site (here are just a few)
Not using proper security plugins
Not changing the default username from “admin”
Not changing the “wp_” prefix of your database table

30. Not talking to your website designer about all of this!

Contact Cherished Solutions today to discuss your website and WordPress needs.

Idea: Let us force a line break

Cherished Solutions — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:32:43 +0000

WordPress Source – Soni

An easy hack for inserting a line break is to break up your tags. For example, to get some extra space between a bolded title caption above a pic and the block of main text above it, I’ll bold the caption text, then add a return between the first bold tag and the text, like so:


text
[image]

That forces a break after the opening tag (which doesn’t show up), thereby giving me a break.

I’ve found this works well, even if you have nothing you want to format. Just insert a random set of html tags (I usually use the italics) wherever you want a line break, then split them up, like so:

They won’t show up in your post, but they will create a line break. You can also do the same thing between images by splitting the image code between the link html and the img src html.

E-Junkie – the “FAT FREE” shopping cart

Cherished Solutions — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:32:08 +0000

If you are shopping around for a new shopping cart, I encourage you to take a serious look at E-Junkie.

I love the fact that you can use it with your existing website and it implements creative solutions to keep buyers focused thereby decreasing shopping cart abandonment.

I also like that you can sell actual product AND digital downloads in the same cart and it takes care of everything in the back end with the utmost professionalism. I have personally tested over 20 shopping carts, and I really like this one the best – especially since their services start at only $5/month and they have a free trial.

	Easy to use, centrally managed service
	Digital storage & delivery for files & codes
	Supports multiple payment processors
	Copy-paste Buy Now and Shopping Cart buttons
	Supports variants for tangible products
	Shipping and packaging calculator
	Sales tax and VAT calculator
	Packaged products
	Inventory management
	Product promotion
	Discount codes
	Affiliate management
	Autoresponder, updates & newsletters
	Sales tracking, built in support for Google Analytics
	Customization
	Download link renewals
	Easy integration with 3rd party and custom services
	Logs & e-mail notifications
	Globalized
	Extras

Word Press Must Haves

Cherished Solutions — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:09:29 +0000

Here are 3 of the 5 recommended word press plug-ins suggested by thewordpresswizard.com

Exclude Pages from Navigation

If your theme does not have this built in, this is a plugin you will use a lot. It allows you to decide which pages appear in the navigation bar. It provides a simple checkbox on the editing page – you leave it checked to include pages and uncheck it to exclude pages. Great easy to use plugin but ONLY if your theme doesn’t have that capability built in.

Page Links To

Mark Jaquith, one of the lead developers at WordPress, wrote this plugin to allow you to link to pages off your blog without the need for an html redirect. As he says, it’s ” Good for setting up navigational links to non-WP sections of your site or to off-site resources.” This is a staple in all of my blogs!

Pretty Link

Pretty LInk lets you set up and track your own links. It’s great for disguising those long, ugly affiliate links or ANY link you want to track. It works outside of WordPress too. You can use your ‘Pretty Link’ anywhere. Great plugin!

To see the other two, read their full blog post here.

Protect Yout WordPress Site from Attacks

Cherished Solutions — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:09:27 +0000

1) Upgrade your Word Press Site when the upgrades are available.

2) Install WordPress Firewall as a plug-in to protect yourself from attacks.

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If you are having a trouble, read this article http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/was-your-site-hacked-redirecting-to-itsallbreaksoftnet-or-paymoneysysteminfo-heres-what-happened/

Link Popularity

Cherished Solutions — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:09:01 +0000

It is not how good your site is, it is how good the sites are that link to you. This still holds weight with search engine favoritism. It’s about who links to you. Blogrolls, pingbacks, and trackbacks help you link to other people, which gives them credit, but it also helps them link to you, connecting the “links.”

The number of incoming links your site has that have been recognized by Google can be checked by typing link:www.yoursite.com into Google (other search engines have similar functions).

Other ways to generate incomming links to your site include:

Add your site’s url to your signature on forum posts on other sites.
Submit your site to directories.
Note: Leaving comments on blogs will not help with this, since all modern blogging tools use the rel=”nofollow” attribute. Don’t be a comment spammer.

How to Use Thumbnails in WordPress

Cherished Solutions — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:51:48 +0000

Link for more information on the source.

WordPress Ping Settings

Cherished Solutions — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:12:13 +0000

Learn how to attract more visitors to your WordPress site using PINGS

Read the full article by clicking {here}

Go to “Settings” and then to “Writing” and scroll down.
There will be a text box titled “Update Services.”
Add these links to that box.

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.wasalive.com/ping/
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://www.blogsdominicanos.com/ping/
http://www.xianguo.com/xmlrpc/ping.php
http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2

Nazdrav: mp3 player for WordPress

Cherished Solutions — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:34:24 +0000

Simply upload the plugin, put your mp3 files into your audio directory, cut and paste the code into my page:
[mp3]audio/song.mp3[/mp3]

Learn more about Nazdrav here.

CSS Play

Cherished Solutions — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:00:00 +0000

Plug ins that will do just about anything you want on the web . . .

http://www.cssplay.co.uk/