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 also... 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. Here are more alternatives! Wouldn’t be nice if you knew about even more plugins, tips and tricks that will tell you exactly how you can trick out your WordPress login/registration page? It sure... 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

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

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