Archive for wordpress
Ten WordPress plugins to make your blog shine (2013 version)
Here's my selection of the best WordPress plugins to make your site effective, versatile and reliable.
10 top tools for getting the most out of Twitter
Not only can the volume of tweets be overwhelming, so too can the number of different tools offering to make your use of Twitter easier or more effective. Here then are my ten top tools, all of which are available for free, though some also have paid-for versions that are well worth getting. 1. Hootsuite [...]
Ten WordPress plugins to help make your blog shine (2012 version)
Good content produced at the right time is at the heart of any successful blog. Good content often needs a helping hand courtesy of sensible promotion too. All of which is to say that fiddling with the technical details can be a tempting distraction from main business at hand, but it can make a difference [...]
Impact of the LibDems and WordPress plugins: posts of the week
Welcome to my weekly round-up of two blogging highlights from the past week: the post that I found most interesting or enjoyable to write and the post from someone else that I found most interesting or entertaining. A post from me… Ten WordPress plugins to help make your blog shine Good content produced at the [...]
Ten WordPress plugins to help make your blog shine
Good content produced at the right time is at the heart of any successful blog. Good content often needs a helping hand courtesy of sensible promotion too. All of which is to say that fiddling with the technical details can be a tempting distraction from main business at hand, but it can make a difference [...]
Chris Huhne's new website
Nice new website launched just in time for the election for Chris Huhne. Simon Dickson, who did most of the work on the site and who I’ve worked with several times, talks more about it over on his blog. I would add one observation to his: this site is (yet another) example of a politician [...]
Do your blog comments make a good impression?
There are many reasons people have for posting comments on this site or others: because they’ve got something to add to the conversation, because they want to correct an error, because they like taking part in a debate, because they’ve got a question to ask or a myriad of other reasons.
For those seeking public office, [...]
WordPress blog hosting recommendation: eUKhost
One of the most common blogging questions I get asked is: I’m thinking of starting a blog. What would you recommend? The basic answer is simple: for a straight-forward blog, particularly if you don’t have much in the way of technical skill (or you have the skill but not the time), either Blogger or WordPress.com [...]
Canonical URLs: improving your website’s performance in search engines
A rather more technical post than usual, but if you are used to playing around with HTML tags or fiddling with the innards of systems such as WordPress, this post has some good news that could make your website perform better in search engines… The multiple URLs problem It is quite common for a page [...]
More news, fewer places to look
The latest stories from a range of different (official) party websites is now being drawn together in one place, with our new aggregator at http://blogs.libdems.org.uk It pulls in stories from places such as the party’s main www.libdems.org.uk website, specialist sites covering particular policy areas such as Home Office Watch, Nick Clegg’s www.nickclegg.com and also a [...]
