Flame Scorpion

I bet that over 90% of wordpress sites are using google analytics for tracking. It gives complete statistics and you can figure out many things just by looking at values there. Some people are saying that analytics are not working well because they don’t track users who have javascript disabled, or they are counting the same person as 2 unique visitors because he deleted his cookies.

Maybe the data is not 100% accurate, but it gives more than enough information for you to deal with it. [Read the rest of this entry…]

In the last few weeks i was looking for ways to make wordpress editor better. The main problem that i was to be solved was to stop wordpress editor to auto remove <p> or <br> html tags that i enter trough the HTML editor. The other aspect was the posibility to be able to work with some advanced features of  content editing, such as tables and other features.

For the first problem i found some plugins to quick fix that and i was happy. For the second issue i’m still looking for the perfect solution.

The tinyMCE advanced is a plugin that adds new functionality to wordpress RTE editor. The most notable parts are the option to stop the editor to strip <br> and <p> tags added trough the html editor, and the posibility to work with tables, styles. [Read the rest of this entry…]

Social networks are very important nowadays if we think about a  good marketing strategy. It is necessary to connect your visitors in social networks. They read one of your posts and they like it, most of them are too lazy to use a RSS reader or e-mail, but there is something that they are not lazy to do: talk and share stuff on social networking sites. If you give them the option to connect with you trough one of their favorite networks they will respond very well, They like what you write so they won’t mean if they have to click a button to get your articles closer to it’s environment: the social network.

Social bookmarking sites are a little different than social netwoking, they are focused on sharing links with their friends, while social networks can do many other things and link sharing is only a part of it.

In both cases, you would like your visitors to share what they like with their networks. If they like your post, they will want to share it, but if they find it is so hard to do it they won’t. Well, give them the opportunity to share your posts. [Read the rest of this entry…]

The wordpress CMS is the best user friendly content management system around here. You can get your website up and running in 15 minutes with wordpress. The wordpress administration panel is very easy to understand, but there are people that still having some problems using it.

After wordpress installation, if you want to maximize the wordpress potential, you have to know what administration panel can do. Here is the easy way to do it, i wrote a complete article with all wordpress admin panel features. Let’s start! [Read the rest of this entry…]

There are a lot of things that can be changed in WordPress from the administration panel: themes, plugins, content, links, widgets to appear on sidebar, and so on.  Wordpress has also the options to edit plugins and themes directly, by editing the template or plugin files. But this feature is probably used very rarely because everything you see there is code, and the code is a problem to many people.

Let’s say you have only a minor issue to change, like the copyright footer text,  or the tag for the page title, but you have no clue how to do this. I will explain you how wordpress use template files to render different pages of your website. [Read the rest of this entry…]

I’ve seen many people that ignore tags on blogs. Tags are used to describe what the post or page is about. WordPress creates a page for every tag you use, when an user goes to a tag page he will see all articles that contain that tag. It is something like keywords.

Even if you use very descriptive categories for your blog, you can still take advantage of using tags. For example a visitor reads one of your posts, he likes it and he want to read more about that subject, at the end of you post you have related articles shown, but if you follow a link from related articles, you read that post but the related articles in the next post are the same as the first article. So can read max 6 articles on a subject using related links navigation. [Read the rest of this entry…]

I have a passion to browse trough wordpress plugins and see what everyone does. I am amazed by how many things you can do with wordpress by installing plugins. It is almost full customizable, you can change it in exact the way you want.

Everything stands in the right plugins, and you can change wordpress completely, and i want to share with you what i find. [Read the rest of this entry…]

The wordpress editor is good. You have basic things that you use 99% of times, you can upload images, embed media, almost everything. It is probably the best i have ever used.

Well, but i’m still unhappy with it, why ? Because it auto format the text and removes any <br> or empty divs from the source code. It won’t let me use neither &nbsp; If a div or paragraph has only the tab character &nbsp; it will be deleted. I don’t use this very often, maybe once a month or so, but when i do i’m really unhappy that my code gets deleted from the editor. [Read the rest of this entry…]

Having poll on your websites is a good way to keep your visitors a little more focused. People like to vote, like to interact with the website, want to know what others are thinking. They like to comment and read other’s comments.

I will explain you how easy is to add as many polls as you want, anywhere you want using Wp-polls wordpress plugins. [Read the rest of this entry…]

Today i want to talk about an option to extend features of current wordpress RTE editor. We all like RTE editor, but some of us will want something better, for example tables, or other features that the current editor does not have.

I found Editor Extender and i will give it a test and a review.

After installation, if you want additional options to be added, you have to enable them manually in Editor Extender settings page. [Read the rest of this entry…]