Jul 30, 2010 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: Update to WordPress 3.0.1

A maintenance release for WordPress 3.0, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). “After nearly 11 million downloads of WordPress 3.0 in just 42 days, we’re releasing WordPress 3.0.1. The requisite haiku: Three dot oh dot one Bug fixes to make you smile Update your WordPress This maintenance release addresses about 50 minor issues.” The major fixes include PHP 5.0.5... read more

May 4, 2010 Posted by Judith

UPDATE! Has FaceBook Stopped Importing Your Feed?

UPDATE: While e-mails to FaceBook about this situation have gone unanswered, I do have a solution for those who have experienced their WordPress feed mysteriously stop importing to your FaceBook Business page. Simply use this plugin: Socialite. My tests show that with the use of this plugin, your feed will get imported without issue. Give it a try! I’ve had this happen several times. My... read more

Apr 21, 2010 Posted by Judith

The Facts About SEOing Your WordPress Site

I have discussions daily with site owners who are not happy with their natural or organic rankings. Nor are they happy (or could it be denial) about what I advise when comes to SEO and what they need to do to work towards improving their rankings. There are those that prefer to surmise that what I advise is a “Judith thing” when they can find information elsewhere that doesn’t require... read more

Apr 1, 2010 Posted by Judith

My Stream Premium WordPress Theme

If ever you could love the blues; it’s with this theme! Or whatever color suits you (6 color schemes in all). What is really nifty about MyStream is this premium WordPress theme actually allows you to easily change the background of your theme to reflect your personality — how cool is that? MyStream is a flexible and extremely customizable personal blog theme with massive social media &... read more

Feb 17, 2010 Posted by Judith

WordPress Plugin Puts Your Best Foot(er) Forward

Have you heard the term splog? “A splog (spam blog) is a fake blog created solely to promote affiliated Web sites, with the intent of skewing search results and artificially boosting traffic.” What the owners of these “sites” (sploggers) many times use is software to farm copyright protected postings off other Blogs to post on these shallow sites. When they do this, rarely is... read more

Feb 9, 2010 Posted by Judith

3 WordPress Comment Producing Plugins

Do you want to get more comments on your WordPress site or Blog? Of course you do! Here are three plugins that will help not only encourage comments, but add a personal touch while making contributing to the conversation easier to track, follow and comment some more. I use all three here on my site and thought I would share them with you today. CommentLuv: This nifty plugin encourages comments by... read more

Jan 27, 2010 Posted by Judith

5 Steps to a Lean Mean WordPress Machine

WordPress has unique resource requirements and as with any database driven site, your database also needs to be paid a bit of regular attention to ensure everything is running at optimum efficiency. It’s not uncommon to find WordPress sites that are not being watched after properly being shutdown due to becoming CPU hogs. The first mistake made is that just because you can install WordPress on a... read more

Jan 20, 2010 Posted by Judith

WordPress Post SEO Tips

Do a search for your top keyword phrase on Google. How may sites are noted in the upper right-hand corner of Google’s result? Rare is that number under six figures. So, SEO is a consideration that all site owners need to be aware of when creating content for their sites. Contrary to popular belief, SEO is something every site owner can easily integrate in their posts with just a little time and... read more

Jan 15, 2010 Posted by Judith

Just Follow These Blog Tips…

…and you’ll be in a better position to experience ROI, success, accolades, growth, conversions — whatever your stated goals are! You do have your goals written down don’t you? If you don’t know where you want to go; how the heck can you possibly know how to get there? When I read this guest post over on DailyBlogTips.com, I thought to myself “self, you tell clients... read more

Jan 14, 2010 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: Trick Out Your Registration Page

I know you are interested in how to make that boring WordPress login/registration page have some flair. I know so based on the tons of visitors to a post I did a bit back about the Register Plus Plugin. UPDATE 06/2010: With the important and comprehensive release of WordPress 3 this month, it is important to only use plugins where the developers are ensuring their plugins are compatible. The Register... read more

Jan 7, 2010 Posted by Judith

5 WordPress Premium Real Estate Themes

It’s not uncommon to want to start the new year with a new look or to update your current presentation to reflect a more contemporary and up-to-date display. Being I work with many Realtors who are top notch and leaders in their fields, they are always looking for the latest and greatest so they can be ahead of their competitors. Here are 5 WordPress Premium Real Estate Themes for you to review... read more

Jan 6, 2010 Posted by Judith

WordPress Creates Leaders!

One of my favorite Blogs to follow, which is definitely a WordPress leader, is ProBlogger.net. Recently one of the Bloggers there posted about what many fellow Bloggers struggle with in the course of trying to make their sites successful — following the so-called rules while keeping everyone happy. Sort of impossible, but as you’ll agree, we all still try! The article in question was The... read more