Tell Facebook Who’s Boss! Two clients asked me recently about how to control which images are displayed when posting links on Facebook. With the ever changing rules of Facebook, it’s been a bit of a moving target. Now they have their own standard code for interpreting your links and info called Facebook Open Graph. If … Read more
Beautiful Share Buttons Without the Extra Pounds I used to adore the Flare plugin share buttons. However, once I became aware of the extra download time it took for my favorite plugin, I pulled it from my website. With only 3 seconds to engage site visitors before abandonment kicks in, Flare was adding too much … Read more
If you saw my post about the Facebook Like Box – you might recall I gave it up because it loaded slowly on my website. Given visitors will give up on you rather than wait 3 or more seconds for your site to load – a slow loading plugin can be costly. Dear Facebook Like … Read more
A List of Basic Safety Plugins for WordPress I’m doing a lot of server setups right now for brand new websites and recently updated my basic plugins list. Of course it depends on what kind of website you have, but I’ll share some of the ones I find really helpful in the fight against annoying … Read more
A popular topic from so many publications, the top 10 WordPress plugins you must have, or top social media plugins for your blog. Eagerly you click to it and for a couple of plugins that sound very promising, only to find out "warning this plugin has not be updated in over two years." Yikes – … Read more