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I am a huge fan of contact forms on WordPress blogs and sites, and have been for years. If you go to my site and look at one of my pages, you’ll see what I mean. WordPress has some very nice simple contact form plugins, like Contact Form 7 and Simple Contact Form, but for [...]
Do you like to play with widgets? You know, those little buggers that do so many things for your WordPress blog? If you are on WordPress.com, you get a certain number of widgets to work with. If you are self-hosted, the sky’s the limit—and be forewarned: there are thousands of them out there. In fact, [...]
I just got back from a WordPress conference in Chicago, called WordCamp. It’s where WordPress users, designers and developers get together and share their WordPress love. It’s always fun, with great conversations and connections. I was fortunate enough to be there as a speaker. But as I sat in a session about security and the [...]
Ever sat in your car and looked at the big dial that shows you the RPM’s, wondering why you would even want to know this? Wishing you could put something else there—maybe a large clock, your iPhone, or a picture of the family? When you first opened up your dashboard in WordPress, you might have [...]
If you are contemplating a WordPress site or blog, or have dived in head first, you probably have found one of the first choices to be made is your theme. And good God, it can be overwhelming. Free vs. premium paid themes alone, the choices are literally in the thousands. And of course there are [...]
I was just reading a colleague’s post on using your own domain at WordPress.com. For example, www.yourdomain.com, rather than www. yourdomain.wordpress.com. Good advice, but it got me thinking of domains. Especially the horror stories I hear. You may be like hundreds, if not thousands of other people out there, and have bought a domain, or [...]
If you have a self-hosted WordPress site or blog, it’s time. You may have heard, or seen via your dashboard, 3.2 has officially been released. And. as major upgrades go, this one is pretty sweet. A “write only” full screen and a much faster load time just to name a couple of my favorites. Cool, [...]
Your blog is your house. And your visitors ring the doorbell with one question in mind: “Will I find what I need here?” Your content can be incredible, but it won’t be read unless you have set up the basics to get your users from point A to point B. Your visitors want clean, simple, [...]
We’ve all be there. You click on a link and bam, you end up on a page with the dreaded 404 error – Page Not Found! Why does this happen? Well, let’s look at when you have changed or redesigned your site or blog in WordPress. Realize, these new pages have new url’s. For example: Your [...]
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