Oct 28, 2009 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: Greet Site Visitors Automatically

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could greet a site visitor based on where they came from before they landed on your site? How about if you could encourage folks to Digg your site or vote it up? Better yet, what if you could customize those messages to cater to each sites unique demographics? Now you can! I found this neat plugin called WP Greet Box that does just that. It allows you to customize your... read more

Oct 20, 2009 Posted by Judith

Make Your WordPress Site Fontastic!

Ever want to use different fonts in your WordPress site but were not sure how to accomplish that? Wish you could designate different fonts for different sections of your site? Well, yes you can do that with your theme’s global CSS file. But for those who are not CSS whizzes just yet, I’ve found a nifty plugin that may fit the bill. Anyfont is a WordPress plugin that allows you to use any... read more

Oct 7, 2009 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: Easy SEO

While many like to make SEO seem like a “science fair project”, SEO for WordPress is really quite easy if you know what to do and you do it consistently. The primary thing to keep in mind is that each post should be solidly about one topic — one niche — one issue. Rambling posts about all kinds of different things will never get found for any one of those things. You’ve seen... read more

Sep 8, 2009 Posted by Judith

Have a WordPress Site? Ignore This at Your Own Peril!

I sat here for some time trying to determine a headline that would get folks to read this very important post. I chose the title that I did because it states exactly what I want to get across — if you have a WordPress site, you need to read this post, follow the links within and act — now! Some think these sort of scare tactics are more of a marketing ploy. That’s not the way I wired... read more

Aug 11, 2009 Posted by Judith

Another Reason to Use Firefox: SEO Blogger WordPress Plugin!

One of the most talked about topics around The IStudio is SEO. That’s why I write about search engine optimization so often. I get questions, track what folks are asking and if I can help, offer tips or even a neato plugins, resources or applications to make the issue less confusing and a bit easier if possible. I’ve used FireFox for years — actually I make a concentrated effort to use... read more

Aug 5, 2009 Posted by Judith

3 Tweemendous Twitter Tools

Try and say that fast 3 times! Here are a couple Twitter tools, including a WordPress Plugin that I’ve discovered recently and are worth you taking a look at:TweetMeme Button: The TweetMeme retweet button WordPress plugin is meant to encourage your audience to Tweet your content on Twitter. And it works! You can see it in action on this site. The button shows a live count of the number of times... read more

Jul 28, 2009 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: Security 101

If your site has ever been hacked, you know it is a very unpleasant experience. The time it takes to remedy and recover is something you don’t want to have to deal with! Here are the three main issues any site owner can address right now:Once your site is up and running, delete the “admin” username account. Since that is the default setup that’s the first user that will be... read more

Jul 1, 2009 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: WP Super Cache Plugin

As your site/Blog grows, resources start getting eaten up like hot dogs at Nathan’s Annual 4th of July Hot Dog eating contest! This is where having a host that offers WordPress specific hosting can make a big difference too. WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates HTML files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By... read more

Jun 24, 2009 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: MyAdsense Plugin

Is adding Google AdSense to your WordPress site a good idea? That all depends on your site. Informational archival type sites and Blogs are more conducive to displaying random ads than say a corporate site or or a site that offers professional services. Not that these type of sites cannot have advertising, it just should be handled a little differently than what AdSense serves up to be effective and... read more