Over the weekend, I received an email from a client who wanted help adding a new WordPress site to her hosting account. I know there are certain things I need to do each time, she wrote, but it seems like I always forget at least one or two of them! If you’ve installed WordPress as many times.

  One of my first posts here was an introduction to search engine optimization, or SEO. If you haven’t read that post and are new to SEO, I highly suggest that you start there to get an idea of the concepts that will be discussed in this post. I recently received an email from a.

As a web designer, I’ve worked on websites using a number of popular web hosts. While I once believed that most hosting companies were the same, I’ve since learned that they vary widely when it comes to things like customer service, pricing, and even pageload speed. If you’re new to self-hosted WordPress, choosing a hosting.

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.

This is a guest post from my good friend Carrie at Careful Cents. Visit Carrie’s site to read about her adventures as the most driven and motivated freelancer I’ve ever met!   Once you’ve been bitten by the online entrepreneur bug (like I have), it’s hard to resist the urge to start multiple online endeavors.

It’s a blogger’s worst nightmare. You visit your blog and get a malware warning. Or maybe you try to log into your dashboard and find that your password no longer works. The signs of a hacked WordPress site can manifest themselves in many ways, but one thing’s for sure: It SUCKS to find your hard.

I spend time every day helping people with their blogs. I work on projects for my clients, sure, but I also answer tons of emails and spend hours switching between multiple chat windows trying to help my friends. Don’t get me wrong - I love to talk blogging, especially when I can help people understand something.

  Some of the most frequent questions I receive involve social media and, more specifically, how to get more fans and followers for a blog’s social media accounts. While most of these inquiries involve Twitter, some of us (myself included) still like to interact on Facebook as well. And, to be honest, blog posts that.

With the recent update to WordPress 3.4 (now 3.4.1 as of this writing), many WordPress theme creators also released updated versions of their themes. I received quite a few emails from clients who wanted to update to the latest versions but were scared of losing all their customizations. While that fear is understandable, there are.

  In the past few weeks, I’ve been flooded with requests for design help from bloggers who have hired “web designers” who had no idea what they were doing. Apparently there are several bloggers who have decided to offer design services, even though they don’t have the necessary skills or even any experience with web.