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

Jul 7, 2010 Posted by Judith

Theme Your WordPress Registration Page

Customizing your WordPress registration page and login process is something that many WordPress site owners are interested in doing. The most commented posts and what I received many e-mails about are about that very topic. On one of the threads in regard to a plugin that I no longer am able to recommend due to lack of support by its developer and it not being updated for WordPress 3.0, led to requests... read more

Jun 28, 2010 Posted by Judith

UPDATE: WordPress How To: Register Plus Plugin

Thanks to the tons of WordPress plugins there are all kinds of nifty special touches you can add to your Site/Blog to customize how it works and looks based on your unique needs and desires. 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 Plus plugin... read more

Jun 23, 2010 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: Avoid 404 Horror

You know what it’s like… You go to a search engine or Web site, find a link you are interested in, click on it and a “404 — Page Not Found” error page displays. You could have typo’d the URL or the page, post, directory has changed or is removed. Regardless the reason, you didn’t find what you were looking for. There you are staring at a blank visually boring... read more

May 27, 2010 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: Tips on Working with Photos

The quality of the photos you use on your WordPress site can either enhance or detract from not only how your site displays but whether you are perceived as tech savvy and a credible site to be taken seriously. All too often I run across otherwise professional and legitimate business sites that use crummy clip art or clearly do not understand the variables involved in integrating photographic images into... 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 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

Dec 3, 2009 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: 6 Steps to Avoid Hacker Headaches

Regardless of how your site is structured or coded, you need to be aware of and do certain things to ensure your site remains secure and is not a target of hackers. For WordPress, these steps are pretty simple and can, for the most part, be handled automatically or with little effort. The key is to get a system in place and follow it. Today I’ll share with you the basics that anyone who is not a... read more

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