Updated April 21, 2020 If you’d like to disable pingbacks, or XML-RPC completely, you’ll be stopping the automatic notification to other sites when you link to them in your WordPress blog posts. The act of notifying site owners that you’ve linked their way is an important thing that lets site owners track their popularity and […]

Updated April 21, 2020 To be direct, yes and no… Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the science of doing “things” that will improve rankings on search engines with the understanding that sufficiently good search rankings will result in organic search traffic being directed to your website. One of the classic approaches to SEO is to […]

Updated September 26, 2019 Before starting any site, it is important to have the right backbone for your needs. Any site must start with a web host and a platform. While researching web hosts, it is recommended to look for things like fully managed support, maximum resources, security, etc. While looking for the right platform, […]

Updated April 23, 2019 Choosing the best blogging platform means more than simply installing WordPress.  In fact, for many, choosing Textpattern or WordPress can be the blog software decision of the decade.  Textpattern has been around for decades, has tons of features and is considered the best blog software by many, thanks to its ease […]