WordPress is an open source content management system running on PHP and MySQL often used as a blog engine. There is a WordPress StackExchange at http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/: if your question is related to WordPress but not webmastery, then your should ask it over there.
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Users often say my website is infected, but can't find any evidence of this?
I run a niche community and we have lots of users with very little experience, so it's hard to decide, sometimes, whether this is just a problem with amateurs butting heads with their virus software, ...
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SEO Implications of blog on site versus offsite?
I recently added a blog to one of our company's websites, and was confident that this increase in content on the site would have only positive SEO results. My boss, however, feels that we should have ...
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Is Wordpress appropriate for building a website (not a blog)?
I want to start a website, but have no experience in this field. I've heard of Wordpress being a simple way to do things.
However, it seems that Wordpress is mostly for blogs, without the ability to ...
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How can I host a large number of Wordpress sites that perform well and are easy to maintain?
My company a large number of small Wordpress sites. Currently we have about 10, but that number will eventually grow into the range of 50-70. We currently have a Linode for all of our sites, but it is ...
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Do search engines treat index pages with excerpts as duplicate content of the pages they link to?
I am using WordPress and in my post sidebar I have related posts which may be of interest to the user, however, I also have an excerpt of each article which is normally the first paragraph of the post ...
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.htaccess permanent redirect to www
I have a WordPress installation that is not redirecting URLs not starting with www.
Example: http:// example.com/dir/ doesn't send to http:// www.example.com/dir/ instead goes to http:// example.com/
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should I block wordpress archive pages from search engines?
I use WordPress and /sample-post/ URLs for my posts and /yyyy/mm/ for the archives.
Google has indexed the site fully.
Since the archives currently display full posts I've thought that I shouldn't ...
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Do wordpress websites get indexed quicker by SE than a regular website?
I registered a couple of domains with the names of categories of products we sell.
I then installed wordpress in one of those domains and played around with it for a bit, and left it alone for about a ...
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Wordpress blog penalized by Google search - what's wrong?
I have a blog (http://blog.brodzinski.com), which is wordpress.org blog with pretty popular Thesis theme with almost no other customizations. Some time ago it was penalized by Google search - it ...
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Easiest way to automatically update Twitter & Facebook when I update a wordpress blog
I'm running a self-hosted version of wordpress, so plugins are an option that is available. I'm wondering what the best way to have my Twitter and Facebook accounts automatically update whenever I add ...
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Most used social bookmarking sites for sharing?
A lot of WordPress sites have a "share this post to xxx" link. I was wondering which "xxx" people click the most? A top 5 or something like that.
I know Twitter and Facebook are in the list, but are ...
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How to copy Wordpress website within same hosting?
I use bluhost web hosting.
I already have mysite1.com. I want to copy this website to different domains within the same hosting, eg. mysite2.com, mysite3.com, and so on. All sites will have the same ...
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.htaccess redirect to subfolder in different domain, maintaining old domain in the URL
Redirect has been widely discussed and most problems solved, so I am sorry for opening yet another post about this, but none of the codes I am trying work.
I have a WordPress site hosted in ...
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Using Excerpts as Meta Descriptions?
I have been blogging from the past three years. And one thing that I didn't care about was to add Meta Description for every page. I was, unfortunately, fallen for the "Google doesn't care about Meta ...
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rel=author and rel=me in Wordpress
I came across rel=me and rel=author from joost's blog. I don't know how much value they're going to be in future for SERPS as they look more of eye candy in search than anything beneficial to surfers. ...
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How to prevent common spam on a WordPress blog [duplicate]
Right from the day I installed WordPress on my site, I started getting spam comments/trackbacks. I have also prevented anonymous comments. I get the following email whenever a new spam is posted:
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Suddenly I have started getting 404 wordpress errors
Suddenly I have started getting 404 error on Google Webmaster.
The backend is wordpress.
404 link is ...
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Adding a CMS to an existing Magento shop
I am working on a project for 3 niche stores built on magento (using magento's multi-store function) that each get roughly 50k unique visitors a day. The sites don't currently have a blog or forum ...
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Website speed issues
I am developing a website however i have noticed speed issues, i am not sure whether is due to the location of the server.
I am not a guru when it comes to performance or speed issues, but according ...
