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WordPress has the content duplication problem which may confuse the search engine. Our sites may get search engine penalty because of content duplication. Actually we only want the search engine to index the posts and pages instead of categories, tags or archives. A noindex meta tag will prevent search engine such ... read more »

The navigation will be more user friendly with page numbers instead of next and previous links since users can navigate much quicker to the page they want to see especially when there are a lot of pages. It is also good method for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) because it creates a ... read more »

The font size of WordPress’s visual editor is too small for me on my screen display. The default font size is 13px which is hard for my eye on my screen. There are two ways to change the default font size in the visual editor. One is changing WordPress’s css ... read more »

About RGBlite Theme RGBlite Theme is a simple and light-weight theme for WordPress. RGBlite Theme provides a green-red-blue mixed style, bright view and fast rendering experience to the users. RGBlite Theme passes W3C XHTML 1.0 and W3C CSS level 3 validation. This theme works well on WordPress 2.9.x and WordPress 3.0. RGBlite theme ... read more »

I want to move the sub domain blog.pkill.info to fclose.com permanently. I can manage all the pages I want to post using WordPress. Changing domain in a bad way is dangerous. Put a page the tell the reader that the site is moved to a new domain is very unfriendly ... read more »

We can speed up the site with compression while save bandwidth at the same time. As most of the modern browsers support gzip encoding, we can set it up to let the users enjoy faster speed. The Apache mod_deflate is easy to set up and standard. It compress the content ... read more »

I use <pre> tag a lot in the html. I believe the guys that usually past codes into the pages will like it too. I use the pre tag to list programming code such as C/C++, php, Linux shell output and some other content that is suitable for Monospace font. The effect ... read more »

By default, all of the content of the post is shown in index, category, tag, archive and search pages. This is duplicate contents which may cause search engine penalty. The better way is using excerpt in index, category, tag and arhieve pages. By doing this the duplication can be avoided ... read more »

.htaccess is a powerful tool. Let’s look at how to using .htaccess to redirect WordPress feeds to feedburner. Let’s use my blog as the example. The WordPress’s feed url of my blog is http://www.fclose.com/b/feed/. Now I want to redirect it to feedburner with url http://feeds.fclose.com/fclosefeed . The idea is quite straightforward: For ... read more »

If you want to have a wordpress blog for FREE co.cc + x10hosting is the best choice. I will introduce both in this post. I will briefly introduce how to set up a wordpress blog like my blog. The overall that I paid for this blog is only $0.89. I can ... read more »

If you want to have a wordpress blog for FREE co.cc + x10hosting is the best choice. I will introduce both in this post. I will briefly introduce how to set ... read more »

The visual editor provides a visual editor to write and format posts. However, it tries to format the HTML tags written in the HTML editor when turning to the visual ... read more »

I am always wondering how to display different Widgets in WordPress depending on the page/post/category etc. I ever tried some plugins that is for specific purpose. However, they are not ... read more »

HTML authors need to look up HTML character encodings frequently as some characters can not (or hard to) be typed out directly from the keyboard. Calculating the HTML character encoding from ... read more »

BBCode is another markup language to format posts widely by forums, which is easier and clearer than HTML. WordPress provides a visual editor and some easy-to-use tools, but no built-in ... read more »

When I tried to find a group of icons for my site, I got to the Web 2 Icons and decided to use it. Web2 icons is a set of icons ... read more »

CloudFlare is a very nice service that provides CDN / optimizer / security protection and more. Good news is that DreamHost turns to be a partner with CloudFlare. The free ... read more »

WordPress has the content duplication problem which may confuse the search engine. Our sites may get search engine penalty because of content duplication. Actually we only want the search engine ... read more »

The htaccess method can be found in How to Redirect Old Domain to New Domain Using htaccess Redirect. This is the method that use php to generate the HTTP 301 Redirect. There ... read more »

I just registered an account on dreamhost with this year’s Black Friday promotion. One-year hosting plus one free .com domain costs me only $9.24. Super good! Just created a free new domain ... read more »

.htaccess is a powerful tool. Let’s look at how to using .htaccess to redirect WordPress feeds to feedburner. Let’s use my blog as the example. The WordPress’s feed url of my ... read more »

About RGBlite Theme RGBlite Theme is a simple and light-weight theme for WordPress. RGBlite Theme provides a green-red-blue mixed style, bright view and fast rendering experience to the users. RGBlite Theme passes ... read more »

Google Webmasters gives two methods for verification: Meta tag and HTML file. The meta tag method can not be used for ones that do not have the permission to upload ... read more »

It is quite simple to redirect pages using the “meta” tag in HTML head, I just give the example to redirect the page to http://fclose.com after 1 second. <html> <head> ... read more »

The apache’s default “404 Error not found” page seems ugly. And may some hosting service put theire ads in it. We can add some entry in .htaccess to change the ... read more »

By default, all of the content of the post is shown in index, category, tag, archive and search pages. This is duplicate contents which may cause search engine penalty. The ... read more »

The default excerpt length of WordPress is 55 words. Some one like me may want to change the excerpt length. I like the have a smaller excerpt length for the homepage. ... read more »

The navigation will be more user friendly with page numbers instead of next and previous links since users can navigate much quicker to the page they want to see especially ... read more »

I want to move the sub domain blog.pkill.info to fclose.com permanently. I can manage all the pages I want to post using WordPress. Changing domain in a bad way is ... read more »

I am now using hostso’s Aspire Plan with only HK$4/month. I was using a free hosting service before. The details can be found from here: a-free-personal-wordpress-blog-solution/. I finally decide to ... read more »