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Expires Headers & Compression

    Learn how  easy  it is set  expires headers & compression using the Apache htaccess file on a Wordpress blog. Without having to resort to additional WP Plugins, Apache htaccess can simplify the task for you. OK now most of us know by now that in order to speed up our sites we need to take a serious look at our setup & ensure that everything is fully  Read More On Expires Headers & Compression

Advanced Most Recent Posts – Hacks

    TheAdvanced Most Recent Posts plugin, was reviewed back in April and I have been using it on this site ever since. Although it has worked & done exactly what is says on the box, there were one or two issues that I was not jumping through hoops over ! Now some 3 months later it would seem that quite a few of our readers are not jumping through hoops either   Read More On Advanced Most Recent Posts – Hacks

4×4-Ad-Block

    Create a 4 x 4 advert block for your themes sidebar by following the simple steps laid out below. We really have two options open to us to achieve this, we can use a small 4 x 4 table or we could use div tags & whilst I know there are many out there that will say that this should be done with div tags these days, I have opted to use a table  Read More On 4×4-Ad-Block

Hacks & Modifications

    Hacks & Mods on Wordpress Themes & Plugins can be a dangerous practice, especially if you are fairly new to the intricasies of php script & Wordpress. Therefore due to the number of requests  that My Blog Review has received from  our readers, enquiring how to acheive certain modifications to either the theme or a  Read More On Hacks & Modifications

Timthumb Convert Graphics

Timthumb is a script used in many Wordpress themes for converting graphics to web thumbnails, errors in the script caused the creation of huge png thumbnails. Timthumb.php uses the GD graphics library in PHP  in order to create thumbnails from your uploaded images, these images are then cached for later use. The problem is that for quite some time users have been experiencing errors  Read More On Timthumb Convert Graphics

Edit Blog Theme

Editing your blog theme can often be a major concern for those that are only just learning about how to edit the style.css . Very often we may not be fully satisfied with our theme or features, perhaps the colours are not what we want, or we find the sidebar is too narrow for a widget, perhaps we are lacking a footer area..? There could  be any number of reasons that we may need  Read More On Edit Blog Theme

RSS Email Subscription

Add  RSS & Email subscriptions to your blog by using an eye catching Multiple Subscription Bar at the top of our sidebar, is  of great benefit to your readers, by helping to keep them up to date. Ok you’ve built your blog, you have a few visitors trickling in each day, but what now..? What can we do to help keep our visitors informed & in so doing  Read More On RSS Email Subscription


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