By Randa Clay on August 13, 2007
Ok, this is going to be a techie post, so beware, but I always find it helpful when I’m searching for solutions to problems to read about how others have solved similar ones.
My permalinks broke over the weekend. I still don’t know why, but they just stopped working in the configuration /archives/%postname%/ as I [...]
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By Randa Clay on July 26, 2007
What do visitors see when they click on a link to your site and the page they were looking for is missing, or the URL has changed? The 404 page is easy to customize, but it’s something that is often overlooked in the quest to make a site “stickier”. You have about half [...]
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By Randa Clay on June 25, 2007
When I was working a “regular” day job and review time would come around, the main thing I looked for was that last page of the review where there were 3 check boxes:
Does not meet expectations
Meets expectations
Exceeds expectations
My main concern as my manager evaluated my performance was that they felt I was exceeding expectations. As [...]
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By Randa Clay on June 20, 2007
I’ve been experimenting with two feed related things I thought you might be interested in:
Related posts – If you don’t already have the w-a-s-a-b-i related posts plugin installed, you should. There are few things that have increased the pageloads in my sites as much as this plugin. Once that’s installed, you can pick [...]
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By Randa Clay on May 21, 2007
I did some tweaking to my site over the weekend, and in the process, I almost shot myself in the foot, and learned a couple of things about managing how pages appear in a site’s main navigation that I thought you might be interested in. I wanted to add some new menu items and [...]
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By Randa Clay on March 31, 2007
As I’m working towards making my sites “stickier”, I’ve been looking around for a good plugin to show the post popular posts in the sidebar. I found an excellent plugin/widget combination that has been easy to use and has provided me with a lot of really interesting information.
The first piece to install is Alex King’s [...]
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