With WordPress 5.0 and up, the classic editor (TinyMCE) will be replaced with something newer and maybe easier, named Gutenberg (after the publisher who introduced printing in Europe). The Gutenberg editor brings block-based editing to WordPress, similar to how Wix, Weebly, or Site123 organize their editing. This was actually the reason for the whole circus: the competition from the “free” website builders. What people don’t understand is that Wordpress is REALLY free, IT is open source and … [Read more...]
Own Your Blog, It’s a Necessity, or the Damaging Effects of Blogspot
To own your blog is an imperative. I still wonder how's possible to convince the uninformed people that in order to credibly succeed in being representative online, one needs a website or a blog, on a brand domain, on a paid host. If you tell someone who uses Blogspot (the Google acquired blogging platform) that it is lame and it has a horrible design mostly because of its own limitations, you become instantly his enemy for life. The reason is of course psychologically explained. By showing a … [Read more...]
A WordPress Developer Who Teaches You Nothing
It's a pity when you claim you are a developer, a Wordpress developer, a php coding guru, and you make nothing more than copy theme descriptions and placing them as blogposts, stuffed with affiliate links to their respective demos. I talk now especially about the Genesis promoters, who are sometimes promoting themselves (I really don't figure what with) as coaches or quite as tutorial creators. Unfortunately only a few are so dedicated and efficient. The great majority of this fake … [Read more...]
The Intricacies of Alexa Ranking
Alexa Rank is a public metric that shows a domain position in a global list of all registered active domains. Small sites subdomains are not considered separately, one sees the proper domain's rank when checking. To not be confused with PR, which is a different sort of ranking (considered very important by marketeers). [source] Alexa is an Amazon property, and it represents a business itself. They have a toolbar and some addons showing the rank. As far as I have noticed, the rank is … [Read more...]
The Evil “nofollow” Is Back in Comments
This post's title should be "How to remove the evil nofollow tag from comments!" I hope you remember my old posts about "dofollow" tag. This is a tag you add to external links, to show your help to their Page Rank (PR). The more interesting is that to be have a real "dofollow" blog, you have to be "dofollow" in the comments too. I know, the Wordpress blogs structure is "nofollow" by default, to avoid spam, but it's also avoiding giving a help "hand" to your visitors or the ones you admire. I … [Read more...]
What You Need to Know About SEO
What you have to do, without fear (of Google, of course) and with a lot of sense of responsibility, it is at first to read what follows below. It is a post about SEO, and about measurement. The rest, all the rest actually, is a myth. If anything will change before the end of this year, or the next, will keep these following lines. So, what are the elements helping your site/blog to rank better, constantly good? The information is compiled from Search Engine Land with sending to various other … [Read more...]