Have you noticed that this blog has been loading much faster lately? IE users also find it less likely to crash when browsing this site now. I just checked Google Webmaster Tools, and it turns out the theme optimization I did a while ago really worked. Load time has finally dropped to under ten seconds! ...
Hi everyone~ Long time no see. I haven’t been posting much lately, and you probably all know why: the junior high school basic competence test has been wearing me down… Still, I know posting less hasn’t been a good thing. I was also getting tired of the iNove theme I’d been using. Most importantly, the iNove theme loaded too slowly. ...
In this post, I’m going to share a few SEO tasks that I think are essential when setting up a blog. But first, a disclaimer: I’m not an expert, so some of what I say may be wrong. I’d appreciate your corrections (not criticism). Also, most of the methods in this post don’t apply to BSPs (blog service providers) such as Wretch and Yam Sky Blog…… Most people who run a blog probably want to be popular, with lots of readers visiting their posts instead of writing only for themselves. But how do you get people to read your posts? That’s what SEO is for! (If you don’t know whatSEOis, you can read about it onWikipedia) However, SEO isn’t a simple technique. Doing it well might even require hiring a designer, which is a bit too much trouble for a blogger. But learning SEO yourself isn’t easy either. So in this post, I’ll share the techniques I’ve tried. ...
Today I’m introducing Google’s Webmaster Central. The Webmaster Tools are one of the tools most blog owners in Taiwan use. Besides analyzing where your site’s SEO falls short, this service also lets you submit a Sitemap to Google, which is a site map. The Webmaster Tools can also check whether your site has malware and how fast it loads. But to use any of these features, you first have to make sure your URL has been indexed by Google! So in this post, I’ll cover the following: ...
After I got up today and logged into 逐風者, I saw a very important message on the login screen - WordPress 2.9 has been released. And this time it isn’t just a bunch of bug fixes; quite a few features have been added too. Based on my own testing, WordPress 2.9 doesn’t have any major problems, so everyone can go ahead and update right away!! ...
As the saying goes, the tall tree catches the wind. WordPress is the most widely used blogging platform in the world, so it's also a prime target for hackers everywhere. Strengthening your WordPress security is something every blogger has to do. WordPress releases security updates every so often, but keeping your site safe also depends on you. A Japanese organization once studied computer incidents (computers being attacked) and found that a large share of them came from user mistakes rather than from problems with the system itself. So in this post, I'll borrow an article from the Chinese blog Moonlight Blog to show you how to check whether your WordPress installation is secure enough. ...
WP Security Scan is a WordPress plugin that scans your site and reports WordPress vulnerabilities. If you host your own site, you probably already know that before setting things up you need to configure file permissions — things like 777 and 655. What WP Security Scan actually does is check whether your file permissions are set correctly, and it can also check and change your database prefix. It's a great fit for beginners....
In this post I’ll show you how to enable WordPress’s Gzip feature with the Gzippy plugin. First, a heads-up: not every hosting account supports Gzip. If your host doesn’t support it and you install Gzippy anyway, your site may break. If that happens, just remove Gzippy via FTP! So what’s the benefit of installing Gzippy? Of course there is, otherwise why would I bother XD. Gzip is simply web page compression. It can make your web pages smaller. A page that’s 100K might shrink to about 30K after Gzip compression, which makes pages load a lot faster. Plugin name: Gzippy Official website: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gzippy/ Download link: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/gzippy.1.0.2.1.zip ...
Today, the site admin Tingfeng is going to introduce a plugin called WP-Polls. WP-Polls gives your blog Ajax-based polling, and it is completely free, has no restrictions, and won't slow your site down. You might worry that WP-Polls's theme isn't pretty enough, but that's not a problem either, because you can set WP-Polls's own theme and color scheme. ...
You’ve probably seen a scrolling widget on other people’s blogs. That’s actually a service from blogupp. blogupp can get your posts seen by more people, but your blog needs to have an RSS feed (by the way, my RSS has been having problems = =). Some people may wonder how blogupp works. Basically, blogupp just reads your blog’s RSS feed. It’s a bit like a blog syndication network, but blogupp’s reach is even bigger. blogupp also supports multiple languages. In fact, as soon as you enter the blogupp website, it automatically switches to Chinese! Website: http://www.blogupp.com/ blogupp Features No account registration required Your email and privacy are never exposed No extra advertising agreements or other requirements Anti-fraud system and fair sharing principles Reach your target readers Exposure rewards for new users Good support for Blogger, WordPress, and other similar platforms The industry's highest exchange ratio (10:9) ...