By default, WordPress has a terrible URL structure. For those using a content management system like WordPress, Drupal or Joomla the work has been done for you through the development of the CMS admin console. Blogs Social Media Tech best practices blog content management drupal joomla security usability wordpressToday’s guest blog post comes from Erik Gaandt, who has written this article for WhoIsHostingThis.com – see here for their iPage review results. Changing it can help with your traffic. The language you use should be clear. There you go! MORE >>

Wordpress blogging platform has people donating plugins or using money donations to have work done. Here is a typical widget from Wordpress 3rd party developers which allows bloggers to ask for donations on their blog, and uses PayPal as the backend for donations across the online community. Drupal , Joomla , and LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP/Python are also mentioned as examples of donation social economies.  Episode 2 of monetizing online communities looks at donations – an overlooked revenue stream and the social media tools that enable donations online. MORE >>

Then it turned out that the Livefyre plugin was causing some problems with the WordPress Editorial Calendar plugin which I also use and love. strongly suggest you check it out, particularly if you publish a WordPress blog. This means that you don’t have to sign up for a beta invite , but should be able to grab it immediately for your WordPress blog. And if you’ve already been using Livefyre on your WordPress blog, you’ll notice a few changes: There’ll be a new comment design, with multiple nesting levels. Short version. It’s genius. MORE >>

From the venerable WordPress , TypePad and Drupal to other great tools, such as Habari , Typo3 and CushyCMS amongst others. So in this two-part series, using the WordPress visual editor, I’m going to take you through a HTML for Bloggers Introductory Course. With that, login to your WordPress blog and open a fresh new post, ready to play with, as in the image below. Featured Posts Miscellaneous Blog Tips HTML tutorials wordpressThis guest post is by Matt Setter of  MaltBlue.com. Image courtesy of the W3C. These are: What is a tag? Formatting. Alignment. Lists. MORE >>

Drupal. WordPress. That said, if you already have one of these, let’s say a WordPress based blog/site, then it may make sense to look at some plug-ins, reblogging, widgets that help with this process. Great picture and post on the Information Overload Paradox : The post talks about the issue of overload: I can certainly consume more content than I could two decades ago, but no matter how much content is available, I can’t consume much more. And relative to the sheer volume of content available to me, I’m actually consuming a smaller percentage every day. Aggregation. video? MORE >>