WORDPRESS

High speed Internet connections are not a worldwide standard yet, so people not using a high speed connection have to spend more time to search for and to access information online. A Web site which loads fast will help a great deal when trying to reach users with a limited Internet connection.

Like any other Web site platform, your Wordpress installation might contain some folders and files that you do not want search engines to index. Several of the standard Wordpress directories, and the login page, do not need to be indexed by any search engine, so use a robots.txt file and exclude them.

Many WordPress themes require more than one dynamic sidebar. There are a couple of ways to implement this, so I will demonstrate a way that will let you name each sidebar. When using multiple sidebars, it is good to name them so that the people using the theme will know where each of the widgets installed will be placed.

When searching a Wordpress Web site, the default results will include all relevant posts and pages. For some Web sites, you might want to omit the pages from the search results, just displaying the relative posts. Making this happen is quite easy.

There are three different Wordpress theme types, Free, Premium and Custom. In this article, I summarize each type, pointing out their pros and cons.