Tricks or tips from a digital geek

Currently, there is no option in the Thesis framework to remove the post image. Hence, when you write a post, you see the thumbnail image, also known as the post image, displayed at the beginning of the full body post. While this works well most of the times, there are sometimes when you do not [...]

Recently I posted a guide on how to show your profile picture in your websites google Search Results. One of the methods to validate that you are the author of you content, is to add a mailto link after your name, with the email address you have both in your WordPress and in your Google [...]

Geek challenge. How to translate a website, localize it in multiple languages and maintain your website efficiency towards SEO? In other words, if you have your site.com in english and you want to translate it to another language, let say spanish, what is the best way possible? For those who had not thought about SEO, let [...]

What essential plugins should you install when setting up a WordPress blog? Don’t worry geeks, if you are experts, advanced users or know your ways in WordPress don’t let the beginners word demotivate you. I will do this quick guide for beginners at WordPress that want to know what essential plugins to install in WordPress. [...]

How to add a floating menu with facebook like button, twitter button and custom HTML code in your WordPress? Go to Smart Sharing Plugin Site for WordPress Add your email address and verify it. They will send you a link to the plugin in wordpress. Install the plugin and setup the options. You will have [...]

LOL. I just love the title of this post. As you guys might know, I started the blog on Tumblr. The reasons where: I had no time to maintain an on premise CMS System I didn’t want to see a line of code. Even though I know a lot of coding I just didn’t want [...]

Adding Disqus to your Tumblr Simple and efficient way to add comments into your Tumblr blog. Open a Disqus account @ http://disqus.com Add your site and tweak your comment box I suggest retriving comments mentioning your blog post, track urls backlinks Choose the tumblr installation and it will tell you to add your disqus name in [...]

This definitely is a trick and not a tip. It is not as straightforward as I thought but it is simple to add a tweet button to your tumblr blog that references your particular post url. How to add Tweet Button to Tumblr Grab your tweet button code for tumblr here: http://bit.ly/hbTVg4 Setup the variables data-url=”{ShortURL}” data-counturl=”{Permalink}” [...]

Today I wanted to add the facebook like button to my tumblr blog so that people may like a particular post. The idea is that the url posted on facebook will be the url of the post itself. Nice! And Simple… How to Add Facebook Like Button to your Tumblr Get the Facebook Like Button [...]

Adding a sitemap.xml is one of the first steps to do SEO since it helps Google and other search engines crawl your website easier hence optimizing your SEO How to add a Sitemap to Tumblr 1. Guess what? Its already done! Find your Tumblr sitemap by navigating to http://{yourdomain}/sitemap1.xml or http://{yourdomain}/sitemap.xml http://trickortip.com/sitemap1.xml or http://trickortip.com/sitemap.xml 2. Submit it to [...]