Archive for January, 2010

Cleaning And Speeding Up Your WordPress Blog

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

This is a followup to my previous post on adding scripts only to the WordPress pages that need them. Please read that first, or this might not make much sense…

To cleanup the dynamically generated head section even more, you can disable the styles associated with scripts that aren’t loaded on every page.

The easy way to do this is very similar to what I talked about last time – add this code to your functions.php file (or custom-functions.php if your theme supports it):

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To Create Compelling Headlines You Need To Work Backwards

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Here’s a synopsis of an excellent post by Adam Singer, How to Write Compelling Social News Headlines; check out the complete source article for a discussion of each recommendation:

Crafting unmissable headlines which resonate with social users is something which appears deceptively simple. Yet it’s an art form requiring writers, bloggers and marketers to craft thousands of headlines to perfect.

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