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.

December 3

How to Speed Up a Slow Website

How to Speed Up a Slow Website

  Does your website take more than 2 seconds to load? Are you tired of struggling to figure out why other sites are so much faster than yours? The speed of your website is one of the most important factors in getting visitors to stick around and read what you’ve got to say. Our online.

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 26

How to Choose a Host for Your WordPress Website

How to Choose a Host for Your WordPress Website

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.

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.

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.

September 18

The Best WordPress Security Plugins

The Best WordPress Security Plugins

I wrote a post awhile back about ways to protect your WordPress site from being hacked. Since then, I’ve worked with several clients whose sites had already been compromised to help them rid their blogs of infected files and malware warnings. Here are a few reminders for keeping your WordPress site secure: 1. Don’t rely.

September 1

Affordable Website Hosting from Nuts and Bolts Media

I’m pleased to announce that Nuts and Bolts Media now offers website hosting! I wanted to provide my clients (and others) with an affordable solution for moving to self-hosted WordPress. Sometimes cost is prohibitive, especially when you’re just starting out with your blog or website and don’t know how committed you’ll be. With plans starting.