Normally, when you see a list of tips on a blog post, they are usually all related. Eg. top 5 plugins, top 10 SEO tips, etc.
Well, the heck with that. Here are five simple, and yes, unrelated tips for WordPress.
1. Text Hyperlinks: when creating a text hyperlink remember this simple rule of thumb. If you linking to a page within your site, leave it at the default. But if you are linking to a page on an outside site, click the box ”open link in a new window/tab”. If you don’t you will have lost your reader. This way when they close the window of the site you linked to, your site will still be there.
2. Static Home Page: Do you want to change your homepage to a static page rather than your blog? Can’t figure out what to do? Create a page for your homepage and one for your blog. Then got to settings >reading and change the settings on the “front page displays”
3. Premium Theme Licensing: If you choose to have a developer do your WordPress website and/or blog, and decide to save a few bucks by using the developers copy of a WordPress premium theme, remember that “you” will not have access to support or possibly, updates to that theme. I recommend you purchase your own license.
4. A SEO Tip: When creating file names, for example an image, if you want space between the words, use an dash instead of a underscore, Google looks at dashes as separators and underscores as a word joiner.
5. Your Editing Window: Want a bigger window when creating your post or page in WordPress? Find that little ridged corner in the lower right-hand side of the box and drag down to enlarge.
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After posting this on Twitter, Bob suggested I comment.
In response to #1, I’m pretty strongly against opening any links in new windows unless that would cause the visitor lose some work (such as filling out a form or while watching a video). This is a pretty ingrained behavior for a lot of people, but I hope that over time most people can stop doing it. In particularly, I like to remind people of these two facts: 1) The back button is the most-used button in a browser. 2) If you make a good site people will *want* to come back to it. Let them do that. Here’s an article with these points and more: http://www.coolfields.co.uk/2012/12/why-none-of-the-external-links-on-this-website-open-in-a-new-window/
And also, I love tip #5. Another way to get more writing space is with the Distraction Free Writing mode: http://en.support.wordpress.com/distraction-free-writing/
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Hey Mark, thanks for sharing and you have made some good points. I might be stuck in the “old school” mentality as I have done that it this way forever. Also, I have heard the argument regarding the popular use of the back button. Love the article you shared and I may just need to seriously reconsider #1. Cheers my friend!
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Good tips! I didn’t know about #4. Now I do.
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Thanks Carrie, yeah I came across that one is some blog and found it interesting, as I have never thought of it that way. Glad you enjoyed them!
Bob Dunn recently posted..An Infographic on the 30 Most Popular WordPress Plugins
thanks i did not know that 5th point and always want a big screen to write post in my blog thanks for sharing bob