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Are WordPress comments dying? I think they are, lets have a discussion about this. What I’m Seeing I’m getting fewer and fewer comments on my blog posts.  I’m not suggesting I’m the greatest writer, generating thoughtful work that the whole internet wants to engage with, but I can see that I’m getting fewer comments on each post I publish. Personally I am not leaving any comments on blog posts anymore. Spam is going down.  I am seeing a trend on my comment spam that shows attempts to leave comments on my site that are spammy.  Here is a six month […]

  You are only as good as your last backup! That’s the phrase that was drilled into me over and over when I was a young systems engineer looking after huge corporate databases. Backup was such an important thing to us, we had rotas where it was someone’s sole job was to ensure backups were taken, they were valid and they were stored correctly. Part of that storage was to bundle up magnetic tapes into a fireproof box and send it offsite to a secure storage location.  It was physically offsite. As the owner of a WordPress site you need […]

There are two main ways to categorise WordPress blog posts, tags and categories, in this post I want to explain the difference between categories and tags. In this post I want to explain the differences between category and tags. What Are Tags & Categories? Both are ways to group related posts together, if someone is interested in your post about a cat, drop it into a tag or category about cats and people can find more content on your site about kitties. Adding a post into a cat or tag, adds it to the category page linking all the other […]

As you read this post I’m on holiday (vacation for my American chums) in Spain.  I’m probably on a beach, or taking a boat ride on the glorious Mediterranean sea.  I’ll show you how to Scheduling Posts To Publish In The Future This post was written on the 19th July, but using a technique built into WordPress,  I can schedule the post to publish in the future (or was it the past because I did this work last week, even Dr Who will get a headache with this). In this post I want to take you through the process of […]