By Mike Paetzold Okay I am pissed and will be stepping up on a soap box for a bit in this article. Usually I don’t tend to preach but what I have seen over the last few days has me pissed and it is not the spam bloggers that have done it. Well they have [...]
By Nick Squires As with all my WordPress articles you will find they are written in a plain English, easy to understand way so that regardless of anyone’s expertise level you will always understand them and this article “how to use Plugins” is no exception.A Quick Background A Plugin or PLG for short is really [...]
By Mike Paetzold WordPress has become the software of choice for the vast majority of self hosted blogs. The reason is simple. It is free and has a huge community that supports it with a large variety of themes and plugins. It is easy to set up as most hosts have a one click Fantastico [...]
Just How Personal Should a Blog Be? by Kimberly Kennedy Bohannon Blogs usually have something of a personal aspect to them. While blogs cover as broad an array of topics as do magazines and newspapers, they’re generally not as formal as those types of publications. For that reason, you can usually get away with journalistic [...]
By Jan Bear As you customize your blog to do what you want and need it to do, you will probably accumulate plugins the way a black coat accumulates dog hair. When you’re first starting out, though, it’s hard to know which plugins to choose. Here are seven essential plugins for beginning bloggers who are [...]
By Joseph M Ward WordPress is one of the most popular and flexible blogging platforms. The majority of the top ranked blogs use WordPress. These blogs are usually owned by experienced bloggers or media companies. However, there are thousands of people new to blogging who also use WordPress as their blogging platform. While WordPress is [...]
Get the Right Magazine Theme for Your Website By Peter Lawlor The right premium WordPress magazine theme can create a fantastic website very quickly. The point of using a WordPress theme is it saves you a bundle of time and/or money to create a great-looking website with a ton of content. Sure, you might do [...]
By Michael Jackness WordPress is what’s called a content management system, sometimes abbreviated CMS. A content management system provides a way for webmasters to easily update and manage their content without directly altering any HTML files. They are the standard for professional web site development and can cut down routine tasks from hours of work [...]
by Julie Weishaar WordPress is a wonderful platform for both websites and blogs. It offers tremendous functionality in general and even more functionality via plugins. You can do all sorts of neat things with plugins that unless you have technical abilities, you wouldn’t normally be able to do. HOWEVER, just like with medication you take [...]
