New Must Have WordPress SEO Plugin

by Jerome

December 20 th

Thanks to Joost de Valk from yoast.com for this fantastic new WordPress SEO plugin. The perfect all in one SEO solution for your blog-in fact I was able to remove 5 SEO plugins on PimpMyWordPress (All in One SEO Pack, Google XML Sitemap, Robots Meta, Yoast Breadcrumbs and the RSS Footer). Plugin Features: Post title [...]

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How To Customise Your BuddyPress URL

by Jerome

February 24 th

After the arrival of BuddyPress version 1.2, I have been immersing myself in it as much as possible. I have started working on a few BuddyPress projects and for the next few weeks I will share some of my discoveries and learnings by posting some tutorials and tips. By customising your URL there are benefits [...]

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Migrating From Blogger To WordPress: Keeping Search Results

by Jerome

September 25 th

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Analytics360 Brings Google Analytics Stats Into Your Dashboard

by Jerome

September 2 nd

I have discoverd a new WordPress Plugin called Analytics360 created by the people of MailChimp.com.   It lets you check your Google Analytics stats directly into your dashboard. The plugin is really easy to install and you don’t  need to have a MailChimp account to use it.   Simply synchronize the plugin with your Google [...]

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Import Comments From Social Websites And Blogs

by Jerome

July 19 th

With the explosion of social websites, conversations about your latest blog post is no longer taking place on your own blog. I have been looking for a long time for a way to import comments about your posts made throughout the web and display them alongside to your blog comments. Thanks go to BackType Connect [...]

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How To Optimise Your WordPress Ping List

by Jerome

May 28 th

I came across a lot of blogs not touching their default list of “ping” URL. Blogger’s need to pay more attention to their Ping list. Ping helps you to inform Ping inform search engine and blog directories when you have updated your blog by sending XML-RPC ping each time you create a post. Of course [...]

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40 WordPress Optimisation Tips

by Jerome

May 5 th

The Dutch WordPress developer and SEO guru Joost de Valk (yoast.com) just went to the Affiliate Marketing Conference A4UExpo Europe. He gave a speech on WordPress Optimisation, giving 40 tips in 40 minutes. After his trip back he shared his slides that were full of great tips to improve your WordPress blog performance: WordPress Optimisation [...]

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Optimizing The WordPress Permalink Structure

by Jerome

April 18 th

By default WordPress uses web URLs which have question marks and page ID numbers http://www.pimpmywordpress.com/?p=123. WordPress offers you the ability to create a custom URL structure to be more search engine and user friendly by changing the link structure.  I personally prefer to use  /category/post-name/ to for example http://www.pimpmywordpress.com/wordpress-themes/10-beautiful-dark-colour-wordpress-themes. To apply this setting, go under [...]

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