The 3 Easiest Ways to Speed Up WordPress

By John Pozadzides (Apollo XVIII Astronaut.) So, in the past 2 weeks I’ve had 3 articles hit the front page of Digg. Let me just tell you, the onslaught of traffic can bring a server to it’s knees. Over the last many months I’ve learned a thing or two about tweaking WordPress, and while this […]

5 Most Useful Administrative Plugins For WordPress

By John Pozadzides (An Amish goat herder.) This is just a quickie to share what I’ve found to be the most useful plugins for administering stand-alone WordPress installs: WP Admin Bar Reloaded – Sorry to toot my own horn, but I – and many other people – use this plugin more than any other. People […]

Banning a WordPress Spammer With .htaccess

By John Pozadzides (“How the heck is that pronounced?!?”) Uugh. I’ve got this problem comment spammer. Today alone he posted over 1,000 comment spams on my blog. You can imagine how I felt about that. Did I mention I am a Marine (Semper Fi)! So, even though Akismet was doing it’s job, I was about […]

16 Tips for Blog Idea Brainstorming

By John Pozadzides (“Who is that eh?!?” … exactly.) In the last week at least 5 people have asked me, “how do you come up with so many interesting articles?” To be honest, I probably wouldn’t have chosen to write about this topic if Lorelle hadn’t asked me to (anything for you Lorelle!) because I’m […]

Terms of Use and Universal Comment Link Philosophy

By John Pozadzides Are you like me? Do you rant and rave against SPAMmers? Do you keep a loaded sidearm at the ready in case you encounter one? If so… please seek help, you’re taking this too far! 🙂 But I digress. You see, for the last several days my blog was being absolutely accosted […]

Lorelle Live at WordCamp 2007

By John Pozadzides Many people who were unable to physically attend the recent WordCamp conference in San Francisco have been anxiously awaiting the videos from the event. Among the most requested videos is the one of Lorelle’s presentation. So, here is the one hour long lecture given by Lorelle two weeks ago on the topic […]

Why Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is Still Important

By John Pozadzides There is a war of words being waged around the concept of Search Engine Optimization with one side claiming that SEO is dead, and the other claiming SEO is everything. The reality lies somewhere between these two extremes (as reality often does) so it’s important to understand both the history and the […]