May 6

10 Things You Should Do Every Time You Install WordPress

10 Things You Should Do Every Time You Install WordPress

  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.

November 29

SEO 102: How to Find Keywords for Your Blog Posts

SEO 102: How to Find Keywords for Your Blog Posts

  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.

November 2

Quick Tip: How to Set Up a Blogroll in WordPress

Quick Tip: How to Set Up a Blogroll in WordPress

Earlier this week I had a visitor who searched for instructions on setting up a blogroll in WordPress. Looking back, I remember being a little confused by the process when I used WordPress for the first time, so I thought it might be beneficial to write a post. Setting up a blogroll in WordPress is.

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.

August 3

How to Update the Weaver II Theme

Awhile back I wrote about the greatness of the Weaver II Pro theme (or Weaver II, its free counterpart). To summarize, I think it is the only WordPress theme for people who don’t want to deal with any coding. Changing the look of Weaver II is just a matter of checking boxes or entering hex.

July 25

Promote Your Blog Posts on Social Media Automatically

I blogged for almost a year before I realized that I didn’t have to get up early every morning to tweet my blog posts and add them to my Facebook fan page manually. Well, that might be inaccurate - I knew that some people used a service to do it automatically, but I figured it would.

July 14

How to Update Your WordPress Theme Safely

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.

June 6

How to Add Progress Bars to Your Blog

    Several people have asked me how to create progress bars for their blogs. You can use a progress bar to track income (like mine above), debt payoff, weight loss, or anything else you want to monitor. There are several plugins for WordPress that will create progress bar widgets for your sidebar, but I.

May 23

Steps to Take After a Blog Redesign

  Last night I got inspired (or lost my mind, whichever you prefer) and decided it was time to give my personal finance blog a makeover. I’ve been doing all these cool redesigns for other people, and I didn’t want it to be one of those stereotypical things where I make cool designs yet my.