May 17, 2009
Several Google searches for this question lately, so let's have a look at this particularly odd bit of WordPress jargon. "Slug" refers to the part of the URL used to point to an individual post, a category archive or a tag archive. This post's title is "What's a slug?" but its slug is whats-a-slug: WordPress automatically makes the post title into a URL-friendly version by removing punctuation... Read more
May 2, 2009
What's a feed and why would I want one? A feed is, simply, another way for people to read your blog posts that doesn't require them to actually visit your site to do so. If you read a lot of blogs and news sites, clicking through to all of the websites to see if there's anything new can get tedious. Feeds allow your readers to "subscribe" to your blog: that is, add your feed to a feed reader -... Read more
April 3, 2009
Perma- what now? For every post you write, WordPress generates one single page just with that post on it. The URL of that page is commonly known as its "permalink"; it's short for permanent link, the link where that post will always be found, even when it's moved off your blog's front page. By default, WordPress permalinks look like this: http://blogmum.com/?p=16 This is both bad and... Read more