October 27

How Much Should You Invest in Your Freelance Business?

Lately it has occurred to me that I’m shelling out a lot of money toward business-related products and services. According to Outright, the free service I use to keep track of my business accounting, I’ve spent about 35% of my 2012 income on deductible expenses like WordPress themes, domains, and graphics software. Considering the fact that roughly.

October 25

Welcome to Nuts and Bolts Media 2.0!

Welcome to Nuts and Bolts Media 2.0!

I’m thrilled to welcome all of you to the newest iteration of Nuts and Bolts Media! If you’re viewing this post in a reader, I hope you’ll click through and come say hello! The site has been completely redesigned after months and months of late nights, and I have to say it looks pretty fantastic. *brushes.

October 18

How to Customize the Weaver Theme

How to Customize the Weaver Theme

Most of my readers know that I tout the Weaver II theme (especially Weaver II Pro) as the easiest way to get started with WordPress. If you want a highly customizable site without coding, it simply doesn’t get any better than the Weaver theme. However, I also get a lot of questions from readers about.

October 11

What to Do When a Theme Update Breaks Your WordPress Site

What to Do When a Theme Update Breaks Your WordPress Site

  If you’ve visited the site in the last week or so, you might have noticed that the pagination was broken. The homepage showed up just fine, but clicking “Older Posts” at the bottom resulted in a 404 error. And since I’ve been slacking on posting, I didn’t notice until two days ago. Yesterday as.

October 4

How to Choose a WordPress Theme

How to Choose a WordPress Theme

A reader emailed me last week and asked for some tips on selecting a theme for self-hosted WordPress. Rather than just respond to the email, I thought it would be much more fun to do a post in case it helps someone else make a decision. There are literally thousands of WordPress themes to choose.