Most of them are badly formed in my opinion, so with a little research, cribbing of other peoples ideas and trial and error I think I have found the best title tag arrangement. Open up your ‘header.php’ file from your current theme and replace everything between the opening and ending title tags. The opening tag is:

<title>

And the ending title tag is:

</title>

Once you have found that code (and only that code) replace the whole lot with:

<title>
<?php wp_title(‘ ‘); ?>
<?php if(wp_title(‘ ‘, false)) { echo ‘ -’; } ?>
<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>
- <?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?>
</title>

I reckon if you craft your blog name and slogan / description carefully, you can get all your keywords into your title using this.

What are your thoughts?

So here are three killer tips for you to maximise your post input.

1. Resize the window

Take a look at the bottom right hand corner of the post input window (and edit window for that matter) and see that the blue bar has a grey chevron icon in it. Click, hold and drag down (or up), this will resize the window.

This is very useful, but the change isn’t permanent and the next time you write or edit it’s back to its normal size.

2. Hit the blue button

This isn’t a facility of older incarnations of WordPress. Along the row of icons (starting with B then I then ABC etc) is an icon of a blue button it should be about the 2nd from last icon. If you click that the whole input box goes full screen and everything else disappears from the display. Now you have maximum input space. To get back to normal you click the button again and the usual input page is returned. Please note saving or publishing is not possible in this full screen state.

3. Permanently resize the input window.

This option is so understated I never realised it was there. In the admin, go to Settings, then click on the Writing tab. The first option is: ‘Size of the post box’. All you need to do is increase the value in this field and hit save. Then the next time you go to your write or edit page the input window will be your new enlarged size! The beauty of this is the enlargement is permanent.

If you have found any obscure WordPress options please comment below. For the first person to comment with a great WordPress tip I will stumble a page on your blog.

So how do you count your words? As I’ve said many times before don’t use Word to type your blog posts, so that means using Word’s count facility is out of the question. So what should you do?

Well when you are next writing a post on your blog, glance to the right just under the SAVE and PUBLISH buttons is a handy little word count gem built straight into the core of WordPress. Keep typing and watch the little counter increment every few seconds.

WordPress now has a delete feature but to be able to delete the plugin you have to first deactivate it. This is the correct procedure, deactivate then delete, don’t be tempted to FTP into your plugins folder and just delete an active plugin. It might leave a load of settings behind that can cause the site to become unstable.

When you create a post WordPress saves the author details for you, some themes will display this on the blog posting. If you are logged in as the default user (admin) your post says something like: This post was written by: admin

Well that’s not great is it? However you have a way of sorting this out, here is how:

1. Login to wp-admin
2. Navigate to Users –> Your Profile
3. Scroll down to the ‘Display name publicly as’ option and look in the pop up menu

So long as you have filled in First name, Last name, Nickname (in the same panel) you will see different permutations of your name which can be used for display.