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 22, 2009 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: Setup a WordPress Photo Gallery

WordPress plugins, thanks to all the dedicated and very talented developers out there, are the best thing since sliced bread when it comes to adding functionality to your WordPress site or Blog. Photo galleries and slideshows are commonly used to showcase products and events within a site or Blog. What used to cost literally thousands of dollars to integrate or create in Flash for a static HTML Web site,... read more

Jul 15, 2009 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: Making Sense of AdSense

While you have to be careful, selective and discriminating as to how or even if you should display Google AdSense ads on your site, there are a bunch of Plugins created for WordPress to make your ad insertion life easier. Here are three plugins to assist you with your network advertising needs:Advertising Manager: Advertwhirl(pronounced Adver-Twirl) is the ultimate WordPress plugin to manage advertising... 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 17, 2009 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: Put Your Tweets on Auto-Pilot

Twitter is now a phenomenon that is not going to go away anytime soon. As a micro-blogging platform Twitter allows businesses to keep interest parties up to date with current events with a real-time snippet that requires very little commitment or time from followers. What hinders most of my clients from using Twitter and tweeting on a regular and consistent basis is that they think they need to spend even... read more

Jun 10, 2009 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: Top 5 WordPress Resources

With WordPress gaining in popularity, there are many out there eager to learn all they can. I get emails several times each and every day asking where I would recommend WordPress newbies can start to read and learn. And I love that!! Getting contacted by those who actually want to make the effort to read and learn makes me want to do a happy dance! The best resource of all is WordPress.org and areas... read more

May 13, 2009 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: Tired of Comment Spam?

WordPress comes with a good anti-spam plugin, Akismet that requires an API key and can be a bit much to implement for the average user. In lieu of this, why not try this great plugin that I have used on all my WordPress sites for years? Because of this plugin I have had zero, zilcho, nada comment spam! WP-SpamFree WordPress Spam Plugin – Powerful Anti-Spam Protection! What’s interesting is... read more

Jan 26, 2009 Posted by Judith

Why Blog? Why WordPress?

Instead of asking “Why Blog?” How about coming up with reasons not to? Then, I am sure you will find that the answers are not the reasons you would hear from successful competitive business owners. Why WordPress? The main reasons is clients can update or add to their sites themselves. Something I’ve been asked for the ability to do since I started this business 15 years ago. I’ll... read more

Nov 14, 2007 Posted by Judith

WordPress Consulting | Setup Packages

WordPress Setup and Customization Packages:CMS (Content Management System) and Blog Assistancefor New or Existing WordPress Sites Yes, you can create your own WordPress site. And, there are tons of online resources available to learn all the things necessary to creating a great WordPress site. From tweaking WordPress to get the look feel and options you desire to offering a user-friendly visitor... read more