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If you are thinking of starting a WordPress blog, normally your first decision is to either put up a free blog at WordPress.com or choose to self-host it on a paid server. I used to try to explain it as a WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org kind of thing but, honestly, that is just way too confusing. Okay, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
WordPress is a wonderful piece of software. Whether you use WordPress.com or self-host, you have the tools to manage your own site. No webmaster nickel and diming you to death every time you need a minor fix. But as intuitive as WordPress is, there are a few things that well, just freakin’ hide themselves. They [...]
WordPress plugins are something that I love to use and write about. I originally listed some kickass plugins over on my blog. I want to add to that list here. Why? Because WordPress plugins are just that good and there are tons of them out there for us bloggers! Let me first say this: If [...]
While you can pay folks to give you ideas for blogging, the good people over at WordPress have come out with a pretty cool (and free!) idea to help you post daily or weekly (depending on your blogging mindset). Called the Post a Day Challenge 2011, it offers you daily post topics to write about [...]
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