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I haven’t posted anything new to my blog in over a year. The reason for this is because I thought my blog isn’t about any single topic that I would never be successful with it. Everything I read about blogging says you must pick a niche for your blog to become successful with it. In the past few years I have published posts on various topics including: Business Intelligence Cycling Games Personal Finance WordPress These topics are very diverse but they have one thing in common, stuff that I care enough about to write many blog posts....

If you would like to add Google AdSense advertisements to your genesis framework theme, here is the method I use. These instructions assume your genesis child theme is using html5. If you are not using an html5 child theme, the code below will need to be modified slightly. 1. Add the following 2 code sections to your genesis child theme functions.php Register 2 new widget areas [sourcecode language=“php”]genesis_register_sidebar( array( ‘id’ => ‘wpselect_before_post_content’, ’name’ => __( ‘Before Post Content’, ‘genesis’ ), ‘description’ => __( ‘Displays on single posts before post content....

If you would like to replace the default WordPress search with Google custom search here is the method I use. This implementation of Google custom search is reliant on using the Genesis Framework. 1. Create a Google custom search engine Go to http://www.google.com/cse and create a custom search engine for your site. Make sure that the look and feel layout setting is set to Results only as shown in the image below....

Here are some optimization techniques to optimize your WordPress site for Google Page Speed 1.10.2, Yahoo YSlow 2.1.0, and Zoompf. I installed a completely new WordPress 3.1 site with no plugins and using the default Twenty Ten theme. Here are the relevant scores on a fresh install: Test Score Page Speed 87 YSlow 93 Zoompf 49 Edit your .htaccess file by adding the following: [sourcecode language=“html”] Header unset ETag FileETag None ExpiresActive on ExpiresByType image/jpeg “access plus 6 months” ExpiresByType image/png “access plus 6 months” ExpiresByType image/gif “access plus 6 months” ExpiresByType image/x-icon “access plus 6 months” ExpiresByType text/css “access plus 6 months” ExpiresByType application/javascript “access plus 6 months” ExpiresByType application/x-javascript “access plus 6 months” AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css text/plain text/xml application/javascript application/x-javascript [/sourcecode] In your /wp-content/themes/twentyten/header....