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My 2010 New Year resolution: to say thank you to WordPress

Miriam Schwab | January 4, 2010 | 3 Comments

Generally, the only thing a new Gregorian year (there are other calendars out there too, you know) means to me is that I must remember to write 2010 on checks. But since I’ve been reading so many New Year’s posts on other blogs, it got me thinking about what I have to say as ... View Post

Canonical URLs to help WordPress duplicate content issue

Rebecca Markowitz | February 23, 2009 | 11 Comments

Fancy words aside, a canonical URL is Google's way of identifying a "preferred" URL for your posts to avoid duplicate content. Duplicate content is generally defined as "separate web pages with substantially the same content, which may attract a penalty from search engines." Wordpress is often criticized for having duplicate content since ... View Post

WordPress Plugins Directory Search no longer “sucks”

Rebecca Markowitz | February 22, 2009 | 1 Comment

I just received an email from Matt Mullenweg, founder of Wordpress, letting me know that the "Plugin search no longer sucks". I was so excited that I didn't even notice the typo he later reported on Twitter. According to the official Wordpress site, Wordpress Plugins directory search is no longer a ... View Post

Review of Wordcamp Israel 2008

Rebecca Markowitz | November 17, 2008 | 9 Comments

Being that Wordcamp Israel was a bloggers conference in Tel Aviv, I'm sure there will be tons of people writing up their reviews in Hebrew. But maybe not quite as many in English, so here goes. This year's ... View Post

Is there an alternative to Feedburner?

Miriam Schwab | October 30, 2008 | 30 Comments

We all use Feedburner to track our RSS subscribers. It's not just to feed that egotistical need to know how many people are hanging onto our every word, but the number of RSS feed subscribers you have is an important metric for indicating the success (or failure) of your blog. It seems ... View Post

7 Reasons to Check out ThemeForest

Rebecca Markowitz | September 9, 2008 | 0 Comments

ThemeForest is a brand new online marketplace where you can buy and sell Wordpress, CSS, Joomla, Drupal and many other types of templates. I'm aware that I get overly excited about new theme/template sites, so I'll try to tone down my excitement by putting my impressions into list format. Here are some reasons why ... View Post

WordPress 2.7 heavily based on existing plugins

Miriam Schwab | August 4, 2008 | 22 Comments

Weblog Tools Collection has published an overview of the features in store for us in WordPress 2.7. As I was reading the list, I noticed that many of them them are based on existing popular plugins, like the Google Sitemaps Generator, ... View Post