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Show your face on WordPress blogs: sign on for Gravatar

by Katinka Hesselink on July 1, 2011

Most of the people who comment on here have done this, but a few haven’t, so I thought I’d remind people: If you want your avatar to show up on wordpress blogs, nine times out of ten what you need is a gravatar account. It connnects your email address (hidden from viewers) with an avatar [...]

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WordPress as a CMS: showing only child pages of page in menu

by Katinka Hesselink on March 30, 2010

I’m working on a CMS for a large site: over 700 pages. I am using a horizontal menu for the main navigation, but when people are deep in the hierarchy, it makes sense to show them the children of the page they’re on as well as the parents, BUT NOT the other main level pages. [...]

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Google blogger/blogspot SEO: title, blog organization & interlinking

by Katinka Hesselink on March 18, 2010

Two online friends of mine asked (or got) advice by me recently about optimizing their blogspot (aka blogger) blogs. Blogspot is a much simpler platform than WordPress. WordPress has two types of pages: posts and pages. Blogger has only blogposts. WordPress has two ways to organize your posts: categories and tags (and an extra option [...]

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Should I have a seperate blog of each squidoo lens?

by Katinka Hesselink on February 25, 2010

From the searches that get people to this blog : Should I have a seperate blog of each squidoo lens? Good question. As usual I’m going to give you the quick answer first: Have a blog for each NICHE you have squidoo lenses (or hubs on hubpages) about. The problem comes next: how are you [...]

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Thematic or Thesis – choosing a WordPress Theme

by Katinka Hesselink on February 19, 2010

This blog was originally made on WordPress, using the Thematic Theme. Thematic comes with 13 widget ready areas (most of which you’ll never use), is coded well for SEO and flexibility of design etc. All that is why I started using it about two years ago, and yet I’m leaving it behind… Thematic is a [...]

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