‘tips for Wordpress’

The XML sitemap plugin is a great time-saver for your Wordpress blog. It constructs search-engine readable sitemaps on-the-fly (ie. whenever changes take place) and immediately advises major search engines like Google, Bing, and ask.com.
One tip: once it’s installed, scroll down on the page and in the change frequencies panel, change the page and post update [...]

There are a few file types that Wordpress doesn’t handle well. Two of these are PDF (adobe Portable Document Format) and PPT (Microsoft PowerPoint).
However, with PDF and PPT viewer, you can now embed these file-types into your pages and posts!
Note: I’ve written about BlogThing by Automagic Software. This will embed PDF, video and many other [...]

Page Meta is a lightweight SEO plugin for Wordpress that gives you control over the important metatags in each page:

Title – the page title, displayed at the top of your browser window and which should contain your top keywords, not just page title and site name
Description – the page description, displayed in search results, which [...]

We like the WP to top plugin for its simplicity and the fact you can customise it for your needs.
The plugin is simple: when you scroll down the page, it will appear (left or right) for you to click and return to the top of the page.
As far as customisation is concerned, you can choose [...]

I’m using the WP Follow-Me badge on the site now, which makes it easier for people to follow the goings-on here at Tall Poppy Digital!
I chose it because it’s simple. It just sits there on the right hand side (but can be configured to appear on the left) and visitors who want to follow can [...]

BlogThing is blogging software you can use from your mac to add pages or posts to your Wordpress site (it supports a number of other blog software as well, anything that supports XML-RPC in fact).
The powerful features include:

Drag and drop filetypes, complete with creation of thumbnail images
Fully-fledged help
Embedding video (up to 7MB if you’re on [...]