I come across as a huge fan of WordPress . . . because that’s what I am. Of all the blogging software I’ve encountered it’s the most comprehensive and the one which I find is easiest to use thanks to the functionality and intuitive interface. However, with online marketing strategies becoming more complex with each… Continue Reading
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Need For Speed
Speed. It’s what we all crave in today’s busy world of work and home life. Whether we are waiting for a train, hurrying from one meeting to the next, or waiting for the microwave to “ping,” we’re never far from a glance at the clock and an impatient gesture. A few decades ago, we were… Continue Reading
Five Easy Ways to Secure Your WordPress Blog
These days everyone from savvy professionals to total beginners are using blogs to build and promote their businesses. In fact many times a blog can be the core platform for a venture. The most popular blog software at this time is WordPress, probably because it’s free, user friendly, and provides loads of benefits and options…. Continue Reading
How To Redirect Only Your Homepage
A client recently asked me how to redirect your homepage only and not any archive pages. It took me a long while to figure it out, so for anyone else who’s searching for it, this is how it’s done. You need to add a line to the start of your website’s .htaccess file. A 301… Continue Reading
Three Cool Features of WordPress You Don’t Know About
WordPress has lots of useful features, and the latest version keeps adding to them. A quick three and a half minute video will show you my three current favorite features that you might not know about. If you need to see anything more clearly, you can change it to 720p HD and watch full screen…. Continue Reading
10 Plugins To Harden WordPress
Those in the WordPress world understand that security is a key concern of any online application, and that includes with WordPress. After all, the majority of updates released by the WordPress team involve hardening – or securing – the WordPress platform against continuous ingenious attacks and vulnerabilities that are discovered. No site is ever safe… Continue Reading
WordPress Template Tags Cheat Sheet
For those of you who might be like me and need to regularly edit WordPress themes/templates, add custom code, change things around and edit them, then WordPress Template tags are our friend. Ekin Ertac has produced a WordPress Template Tag Cheatsheet that lists the available template tags and what they do. You can download it… Continue Reading
Fixing A Hacked Blog Is Hard
Those of you who are members of my newsletter (if not, sign up on the right on my blog page), and anyone who follows WordPress announcements will know that there has been a worm attacking WordPress blogs that have not been updated to the latest version. You can read the full details here, but please… Continue Reading
Why Are My Plugins Not Showing In My Dashboard?
A common complaint about WordPress is that after uploading plugins to your server they do not show up in WordPress. But what is really going on? If you don’t have WordPress 2.7 – Make sure you’re uploading to the correct folder. This should be wp-content/plugins. – Make sure the files have uploaded. There should be… Continue Reading
Help, My Blog Posts Have Disappeared!
Have you suddenly discovered that your posts and pages have all disappeared? Your blog theme/template is still there but it’s saying no posts found? This has happened to four clients in the last week, three on Hostgator and one on another. I know Hostgator are gradually upgrading all their servers and I’ve no idea if… Continue Reading