ThinkPress WordPress Enlightenment

We gave a presentation on maintaining and securing your WordPress installation at this month’s OC WordPress meetup. These are our notes from our presentation. ...

WordPress 2.8.6 was released today. It includes some security fixes for vulnerabilities found by WordPress users. As always you can get the newest version of WordPress from the WordPress.org download page. We recommend always upgrading WordPress to the latest stable version available. If you don’t have the time or don’t know how, you can always ...

Here’s another easy tip to help speed up the load time of your WordPress website.  Deactivate any unused plugins.  Simple, right? This may seem like a “no duh!” tip for WordPress users, but we can all be guilty of missing the obvious and/or being lazy. If you are diligent about keeping your plugins tidy, good ...

Here something else to think about and take your duplicate page avoidance to the next level. (Be sure to read the previous post regarding duplicate pages first.)  Even after incorporating the tips from the previous post, there is still a bit of overlap between content on the home page, the categories/tag/archive pages and post pages.  ...

If you are interested in improving your search engine rankings, this one is for you.  One of the criteria Google and other website index engines will ding a site on is duplicate content.  The trouble is, with WordPress, many of us are duplicating content without even knowing it.  But the good news is, there’s an ...