WordPress tips

I was asked to look at an existing WP website this week (I won’t say which one) with a view to bringing it up to date and improving its SEO. On the face of it, it actually didn’t need much doing to it – one or two tweaks with internal links, maybe add a few…

One of the downsides of WordPress is that, because it’s so popular as a site building tool, it’s also a really popular target for hackers and spammers. It’s never possible to keep a site perfectly secure (let’s face it – if NASA can’t keep their computers secure, what chance do we mortals stand?) but by…

Whether you are setting up your WordPress site yourself or someone else is doing it for you, it’s quite common to tick the box in Settings > Writing that says ‘Discourage search engines from indexing this site’.