Posts Tagged LINKS: WordPress
How Social Media Changed Our Business
Posted by Analisa in Social Media / Inbound Marketing on July 6th, 2010
We have been thinking a lot about "social media strategy development" lately, and it feels like a short moment of reflection is in order...
2009 was all about preaching the values of social media. We attended a lot of social "meetups" to meet peers in the industry and learn how people were using social networks in new and interesting ways. We pitched grand social engagement strategies to potential clients.
What did we learn? Convincing people that the social web was the new frontier was not difficult. We had examples, case studies and passion for the cause. But once we had the converts, how could we help them learn to help themselves? I often felt like the proverbial fishing teacher...I wanted to teach my clients to fish on their own, to see them take control of their own online communities and blog with fervor! But at the end of the day, after hearing all of the typical excuses ("we don't have the time" or "we don't know what to say") I was reluctantly handing out the fish.
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How to Add Facebook's XFBML Like Button & Social Plugins to Your Web Pages & WordPress Posts
Posted by timware in LINKS: WordPress, Social Media / Inbound Marketing, Static FBML & FBML, Web Coding on April 24th, 2010
Facebook's new Open Graph protocol is now official, having been announced and launched this past Wednesday at the Facebook f8 Conference. It is the successor to Facebook Connect which will be slowly phased out, and it is a big improvement, making it much easier to "socialize" your Web pages into Facebook's hyper-expanding social network.
I must admit it was hard to sit still at the f8 conference after Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement in his keynote address and I attended a couple sessions that delved deeper into the Social Plugins and the Open Graph protocol. As soon as possible, which happens to be today, I decided to start experimenting by adding some social plugins to my WordPress blog.
I decided I could save others a lot of time if I wrote up a tutorial. So here it is....
Importing Your Blogger or WordPress.com Blog into WordPress
Posted by timware in LINKS: WordPress, SEO - Google on April 21st, 2010
In a previous post, I discussed the SEO implications of choosing where to host your blog — in a subdomain, separate domain, external blog service or subdirectory. My conclusion, was that hosting your blog in a subdirectory of your primary domain provided the best SEO benefits.
Moving Your Blog to WordPress
So you've installed WordPress in a subdirectory of your primary domain. However, you already have an established blog on an external service such as Blogger or WordPress.com, with many posts and many images. What is the easiest way to move that blog to your new self-hosted WordPress blog? Both of the aforementioned services offer the ability to export your blog posts and comments, and your installed copy of WordPress has a "tool" for importing an external blog.
WordPress Blogroll Ordering - My Link Order Patch for 2.8
Posted by admin in LINKS: WordPress on August 4th, 2009
In my post about the plugin "My Link Order" for ordering your blogroll links, I talked about what a great plugin it is. Then WordPress 2.8 came out and it caused My Link Order not to work. The patch/fix for this is not very intuitive, so I'm laying it out below:
- Log in to your WordPress as admin;
- Click on the "Links" link in the left navigation;
- Click on "My Link Order" in the list that is displayed;
- On the "My Link Order" page are the instructions for patching /wp-includes/taxonomy.php so that My Link Order works in WordPress 2.8.
- At line 683, after this code:
elseif ( empty($_orderby) || 'id' == $_orderby )
$orderby = 't.term_id';you paste the following code:
else if ( 'order' == $_orderby )
$orderby = 't.term_order';
and then your blogroll shows up again!
Maximizing WordPress Blog SEO + General Tips for Efficient Blogging
Posted by timware in LINKS: WordPress, SEO - Google, Social Media / Inbound Marketing on May 4th, 2009
Having set up various clients with WordPress, clients who were interested in search engine rankings and ways to optimize their blog and posts for the search engines, I thought I'd layout some basics for setting up your WordPress blog for ultimate SEO bang.
Also included here are some other WordPress plug-ins & tips we've found indispensable for setting up maximum-efficiency blogs.
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