Geniosity Musings

Here’s a new plugin I’ve written for WordPress users who want to benefit from everybody who hotlinks to their images. A little background on HotLinking If you write an article and place an image in your post, that image most likely sits on your web server. Every time somebody views your post, that person’s browser will download the image. If somebody else likes this image, they can put it ....

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The saying used to be “15 minutes of fame”. Now, thanks to the online world, it’s 15MB of fame. Well, maybe even 15GB of fame thanks to broadband connections. Everybody knows Chuck Norris, but if you’re South African and you’ve been online recently (or you’ve seen the latest Vodacom ad), then you might have heard of Vernon Koekemoer! Who is Vernon Koekemoer? His real name is Cassie Booyse, but ....

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So, there I was, having just upgraded my local Windows installation of WordPress so that I could update one of my plugins when I noticed a new piece of text on the top right hand side of my screen: “Speed Up!” Who is WordPress to tell ME, the king of speed on a PC, to SPEED UP!?!?! But, always one to improve on a process, I ....

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In response to a few questions by Mary on my post about using WAMP to install WordPress on your Windows Machine, I’ve decided to write a post and see if I can help her (and anybody else who needs it). First, an introduction. Everybody should have a website I FULLY believe that everybody should have a website. Even more so if you run a business. In South Africa, if ....

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Introducing my next WordPress plugin: Please Link 2 Me I’ve personally wanted this for quite a while, and I’ve seen it on other blogs before, but when I looked for it, I just couldn’t find it. So i created it myself… That’s the beauty of WordPress What does this plugin do? This plugin adds a little text box below each post on your WordPress blog containing the code required ....

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Everybody knows that H1 tags are supposed to “highlight” the most important heading on the page. Whether this really helps with a site’s SEO is still up for debate, but in my opinion, having a good document structure can only help. In most (if not all) WordPress themes, it’s the Blog’s Title/Name that gets the honour of wearing this badge. But your Blog’s Name shouldn’t necessarily have this ....

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Whether you downloaded WordPress 2.5 or you would just like to test your theme or plugin on your own machine before uploading it to your site, I feel having an instance of WordPress running on your machine is a must. Anyway, I’m sure there are quite a few tutorials for this out there, but I’ll write it here for my own reference, as well as yours… Download WAMP WampServer, ....

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