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I removed all the archive, category, and tag links from the sidebars and put them on a dedicate page which resulted in a simplified menu structure. All of the posts are now feeding off the new Post Archive page. While categories and tags likewise have their own index page.

This blog is about providing practical information that the typical blogger can actually put immediately into use.

John H. Gohde muses: “When does obsessing over security for your blog do more harm than good?”

Here is a cool plugin that will help make your Wordpress blog more professional looking.

Just because a Wordpress Theme is advertised as being Search Engine Optimized does not mean that it actually is. Usually they are selling the sizzle, rather than the steak.

WordPress blogs have an optional excerpt field that should always be filled out. Google is aware of it. Use it as an alternate description tag. Bloggers should use it as a teaser that uniquely introduces each new post without duplicating the content of the actual post.

If you set up your blog to ping then your posts will be added to Google within minutes of their publication. First, your optional excerpt will be added to Google’s blog index. After a few more minutes your new post will be added to Google’s web index. And, your home page will likewise be updated in Google’s web index.

Registered users of your blog, and especially new subscribers should not have access to which version of Wordpress your blog is running. Wordpress version update nag reminders tell potential hackers that you are not running the latest version of Wordpress.

While security experts will bore you with their discussion of username enumeration vulnerabilities in Wordpress, there is actually very little that one can do in this area beyond installing some good plugins.

This is a tale of two Wordpress plugins with the same identical names. Which will be wasting bloggers’s time over this total nonsense for years to come, thanks to their developers.