2014 Archives

New WordPress Page Template for Stallion Responsive 8.1 for listing the top 10 authors by post count of a multi author WordPress site. This WordPress page template is only useful to multi author WordPress sites and this WordPress site has just the one author (me) and one author with no posts (used that author for importing posts from other sites), so this example page (the page you are on now) won’t do the page template justice. With a multiple author site each author has a block of content like you see later. The top 10 author page template shows your sites most active authors by post count with their most recent article using the format you see on a category […]

As a WordPress user of over 8 years with over 100 WordPress blogs I’ve seen my fair share of comment SPAM. Until yesterday I swore by Akismet comment SPAM plugin, have Akismet installed on all my WordPress blogs and thought it was blocking a lot of SPAM comments. Yesterday I discovered a serious Google SEO performance issue with Akismet v3.0. Akismet SPAM Plugin I’ve used Akismet as a matter of course for years, one of the first plugins I activate on a new WordPress install. However, Akismet v3.0 is adding three javascript files to the front end of posts with comments enabled. Don’t know exactly why Akismet needs these javascript files, I’m guessing some sort of SPAM honeypot. Akismet Honeypot […]

The Stallion Responsive Video Tutorials are at the bottom of the content, this WordPress Post is also demonstrating a Stallion Responsive 8.1+ WordPress Page Template (WordPress Page Templates allow webmasters to have more control over content) that includes a widget area directly below the main text content. You could in principle add a widget area (where you can add WordPress widgets) to almost any area of a webpage, with most WordPress themes there’s a handful of widget areas, with Stallion Responsive v8.0 there are 23 widget area and this could double for version 8.1: the only real limit is not confusing users with too many widget areas. Currently testing the concept, plan to make multiple WordPress Page Templates that use […]

Been working on fixing Google PageSpeed Insights Size Tap Targets Appropriately warnings for this website and the WordPress theme I develop (Stallion Responsive: which is running on this site). Version 8.0 of Stallion Responsive was released (February 2014) before Google added Size Tap Targets Appropriately warnings in May 2014 (weird name for the warnings, “Appropriately”!) to it’s PageSpeed Insights Tool output: part of the new Mobile User Experience results. Size Tap Targets Appropriately When Google added those new pagespeed metrics for mobile devices my PageSpeed Insights scores for mobile user experience dropped in May: looks like they’ve completely changed the rating system, I was getting 90/100 before the changes, after May was significantly lower. It’s taken two days and a […]

This is the output of a Stallion Responsive Theme Landing Page Template Test. The WordPress Page Template is called “Front 1 – Page Content and Archive Posts” and is built into the Stallion Responsive WordPress SEO Package v8+. You’ll find the WordPress template file under /stallion-responsive/page-front-01.php It’s not really meant for use as a WordPress Post (this article you are reading now is a WordPress Post), but I can’t show multiple landing pages (home pages) template tests with only one home page :-) WordPress Custom Landing Page Archives Template As you can see from this page the output is a normal post/pages content at the top (what you are seeing and reading now) and near the bottom 10 WordPress posts […]

Most of this website is dedicated to supporting the Stallion Responsive WordPress SEO Package I develop. You’ll find various Stallion Responsive Tutorials and plenty of references to how Stallion works throughout articles within this website even when the articles aren’t specifically about the Stallion SEO package: examples include the general SEO Tutorial Series and the WordPress SEO Tutorial Series. Over the years I’ve offered a lot of free tech support for WordPress users and it can get frustrating when asked the same question that is answered and just a couple of clicks away from the visitor. You will find a simple list of all main articles on this website within the Sitemap, the sitemap is categorized so easy to find […]