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Image rollover in wordpress, no plugins required

By On May 16, 2012 In HTML & CSS, Web Design Tutorials, Wordpress With No Comments Permanent Link to Image rollover in wordpress, no plugins requiredPermalink

Quite an annoying aspect of WordPress is that its not very easy to use an image rollover from within posts. This is a simple hack that lets you use an image rollover in WordPress without the use of a plugin.

<img title="this" onmouseover="this.src='http://twentyeleven.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/that.png';" onmouseout="this.src='http://twentyeleven.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/this.png';" src="http://twentyeleven.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/this.png" alt="" width="192" height="116" />

How To Install & Configure W3C Total Cache

By On June 30, 2010 In Wordpress With No Comments Permanent Link to How To Install & Configure W3C Total CachePermalink

Everyone knows the importance of site speed and its importance in retaining visitors and one of the best plugins for WordPress in speeding up your site has to be W3C Total Cache.  For a long time I had used WP-Super Cache but found it to not necessarily work as I wanted it to.  I was always on the look out for something else and thanks to Joost De Valk I became more and more sold on the idea of W3C Total Cache, and frankly its awesome.

However even though it has pretty good documentation and the install process is straightforward I found there was nowhere that really told me how to set up everything to get it working at its optimal settings.  Thats when I came across this tutorial.  I’ve included a downladable pdf of the guide if you would rather read this but the following information should help you optimise your websites load speed. I managed to take make my homepage load in 2.5 seconds and rank at 80 (Grade B) on YSlow, still with some work left to be done i.e HTML requests/CSS Sprites. Continue Reading →

WordPress 3.0 Available for Download

By On June 18, 2010 In News, Wordpress With No Comments Permanent Link to WordPress 3.0 Available for DownloadPermalink

With wordpress 3.0 finally here its nice to see that they have changed the standard Kubrick theme for a more stylish Twenty Ten theme (quite in keeping with our branding – we thought). Continue Reading →

Effective SEO With Scribe – WP Plugin

By On April 18, 2010 In News, Wordpress With 2 Comments Permanent Link to Effective SEO With Scribe – WP PluginPermalink

I have been writing over at my blog about writing compelling copy for the web. Now a day’s many people are using WordPress as their blogging platform or Content Management System, because WordPress provides flexibility, easy customization, and tailored Search Engine Optimisation.

Most people who use WordPress are aware of basic search engine optimisation (SEO) and will be aware of some of the popular Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) plugins available to them.  However for high search engine placement they need to adopt more advanced techniques (Keyword Analysis, Split Testing, compelling Copy etc) . As we all know Copy is king when it comes to Googles ‘Bots’.  If you want to get Good WordPress SEO with minimal work, here is a cool and very popular wordpress plugin,  Scribe.

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