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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How can WordPress be used, besides a blog?
WordPress has been primarily a blogging tool from the start. But recent releases have been very customizable and extensible, especially 3.0. What other purposes could WordPress be used for, besides ...
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How do I professionally manage a website?
My wife has started a business, and the website is an important way to reach potential customers. I'm a software developer, so 'of course' I'm taking care of the technical stuff. I arranged a webhost ...
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How to correctly deal with corporate customers that have outdated browsers
Many of our customers are on corporate networks where they have no control over their browser versions, etc.
We have a Wordpress site that doesn't play well with IE8.
We cannot inform the customers ...
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Are there any WordPress themes optimized as a “starting point” for custom theme development?
I found this "blank" theme, but I was wondering if there are any other themes that provide a template for custom theme development.
I'm looking for something that, out of the box, provides a very ...
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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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Why should I use a Content Management System?
I've heard a lot about cms's like drupal, joomla, and wordpress. I've always hand-coded most of my PHP and HTML and done fine. What are the pros and cons of using a cms?
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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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Migrating the source of a FeedBurner podcast feed from one WordPress to another
I'm using FeedBurner as the public-facing feed for the Ask Different Podcast. Recently Stack Exchange has set up a Blog Overflow blog for Ask Different, and I'd like to move the source of the ...
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When is it time to move on from WordPress?
My company's blog it closing in on 30,000 posts and get around 1,000,000 visits a month. Things seem slow even though we have a good server.
At what point to you move on from WordPress or does it not ...
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Is using feedburner still a must for blog feeds?
I'm setting up a blog for my OSS/startup and I'm wondering whether using Feedburner for blog feeds is still the recommended way to go? Is there enough value in using Feedburner over just using the ...
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Migrating from a wordpress.com to wordpress.org blog without harming SEO
I've had a Wordpress.com weblog for 3 years. And its pages have a good pagerank and are shown in first search results pages.
Because of the limitations, I should migrate to my own WordPress.
How to ...
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What resources are available to get an experienced .net developer up and running quickly with Wordpress/PHP development?
Specifically,
what are the preferred development tools (free?)
Are there any good tutorial sites that are up-to-date with the latest version of Wordpress
Has anyone ever done Wordpress/PHP ...
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How to re-direct Wordpress posts with 301
All my WordPress post URLs generate sub directories with duplicate content and I do not know what regular expression to use to consistently 301 redirect domain.com/category/post/random-number/ to ...
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Can I get Wordpress to upload images etc via FTP instead of the filesystem?
I'm installing a Wordpress blog on a site run from a server farm. We can only upload files through FTP (which gets synced to the web servers). Any file written to the server through the web site is ...
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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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Allow access to WordPress site only by links in email newsletters
I send out a personal email newsletter, and have been looking into sending it via some service like MailChimp, or sendy.co. Many of these email services suggest, or require, the email newsletter ...
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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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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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What WordPress plugins are “must have” for a site?
I'm new to WordPress CMS and have just created a site+blog using it. What set of plug-ins do you recommend me to install? I believe there are some useful, proven and "must have" WordPress plug-ins for ...
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Using WordPress for large collaborative site
I work for a government agency, and we're thinking about creating a new, fairly large site using WordPress as the platform. It would involve allowing quite a few people around the state access to the ...
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Does using Litespeed instead of Apache speed up wordpress?
I've read that Litespeed is alot faster than apache. I use mostly wordpress and joomla sites and am looking for a new server. Will i see a significant increase in speed of wordpress being on a ...
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SEO Implications of creating Niche Product Blogs vs Main Company Blog with Categories.
Our company has a dilemma that I am hoping the users of Pro WebMasters can help us with.
Right now as it stands we create a seperate website for each product that we sell.
We also have our corporate ...
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Do short posts hurt SEO?
I'm interested in making a custom post type in which every post is a single image. My question is, WordPress creates a page for each post, and since it won't have any words, will it hurt the page rank ...
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How to deal with a client who redesigned their own site badly?
I am a freelance designer/developer. I am starting a registered business and will be offering other services soon and I am in the process of expanding the portfolio section of my existing website but ...
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Does Google penalize for H1 & H2 that are not human readable?
I was curious how a competitor's Web site was ranking so high for many of my keywords, especially since the company is located in another city. Looking through their source code I noticed at the top ...
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Multiple Wordpress installs on subdomains affecting SEO?
I am working on a website for a photography business in town and was asked to do something I'd never considered before. The company wants a basic webpage for it's "general" business -- ...
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How to Migrate wordpress blogs from shared hosting to dedicated server?
I have some clients wordpress blogs on my shared hosting and now i want to migrate all to a new dedicated server. the shared server is on linux and the new dedicated is windows 2008.
I know how to ...
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Pros and Cons of Wordpress multiple installations versus networking?
I have several sites and I build most of my clients' websites on Wordpress. It makes sense for most of the sites I build and if I want to give them the reins it is easy to train a client on.
I know ...
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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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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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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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Freelance website development and backups
How to manage backups when developing websites as freelance?
I have my clients purchase web hosting space from a provider of their choice.
I develop the website and upload it to their hosting space.
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Why did my Feedburner feedcount reset to zero and how can I restore it?
I am using Google Feedburner for feed management of my Wordpress site.
I have around 6000 subscribers and have used its widget to display the count. Couple of days back suddenly, the feed count ...
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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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Wordpress - SEO - Does Turning off comments matter on a non comment template?
I have a custom Wordpress themed website. None of my page/post/category/tag/etc. template pages have any code that has anything to do with comments (as far as I know). I am wondering if there is ...
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Help with choosing the best URLS for a Picture Blog site on Wordpress
I would like to select the best SEO friendly URL format for my WordPress based picture site. But I am not sure about the impact of SEO in the following formats. In other words I want a better format ...
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Confirm if trailing slash is acceptable for a file, rather than a directory
I have been reading on here and Google results for a few hours now including this question and the links therein and many others. Including a URI building styleguide from the w3c and others.
I have ...
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.htaccess and gzip compression
i have question about GZIP compression,
actualy my wordpress website doesn't have .htaccess to be able to use that feature, so can i create .htaccess file only for gzip, it won't change anything on ...
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How To Move From WordPress To GitHub Pages?
I'm considering moving my blog, Dream In Tech, which is WordPress CMS running on my Rackspace Cloud Server, to GitHub Pages because I'm starting to have performance issues, but how to move the posts, ...
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wordpress.com vs wordpress.org SEO
I keep reading that the SEO will be much better if you have a self-hosted wordpress.org blog versus a wordpress.com blog.
The main concepts that I know of in SEO are:
Relevant keywords in the text ...
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Create single HTML file from many HTML files by keeping header, sidebar & footer section common
I don't know whether I am missing a trick in HTML. I have one simple HTML website which has over 100 HTML pages. For each page the header, sidebar & footer section are the same but the content is ...
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Content from a domain I used to own is appearing in my twitter feed
I had an old domain with a WordPress setup hosted by GoDaddy. I changed the business name and moved everything over to a new site, new domain, and new host a couple of years ago. I let the old domain ...
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How to appears in Google Blog Search
I have a wordpress.org blog configured with pingomatic.com. I verify my site on Google webmaster tools, all my post are indexed on the "normal" google search but no one on Google BlogSearch. I ...
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Developing a new site over an existing site. How do I do this with WordPress?
Let's say I have an ecommerce site that is already up and functioning, www.widgets.com but I don't like the shopping cart that I got with the host and instead want to use Wordpress and a Wordpress ...
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What VPS spec would I require to run WordPress [closed]
I am looking to move an existing WordPres website to a VPS. It will be a Debian (Minimal install) running ISPConfig3, Squirrel Mail, Apache 2. The wordpress site currently accepts 40-60 online ...
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Analyze Drupal and Wordpress sites CPU load in shared server
Our hosting company is complaining that both our Drupal and Wordpress websites running in a shared server are consuming too many CPU resources. The traffic for each site is not more than 100 users ...
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WordPress feeds not indexing in webmaster tools
I don't have much experience about webmaster tools, i just know the basic of the webmaster, and i am not from SEO background, but i just want to know that:
Why my blog's RSS Feeds not indexing from ...
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How do I create DNS records
My domain points to a rails app hosted on Heroku. Is it possible to have blog.mydomain.com point to a WordPress installation somewhere else, e.g. Dreamhost?
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302 Redirect causes garbage at end of Wordpress link in Facebook
When I try to link my Wordpress blog to Facebook, the url doesn't resolve properly. There's garbage appended at the end and Facebook is not able to retrieve information from the site. Happens in ...
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How to show all albums in Wordpress NextGen Gallery [closed]
I have a Wordpress install setup as a simple CMS. I am starting to use the NextGen Gallery plugin to support photo pages. I expect to have a number of people uploading pictures, and not all of them ...
