Jan 18, 2012 Posted by Judith

“Yes, I’m Back in Black”

While the title of this post is lyrics from one of my favorite bands AC/DC, it fits today’s post. We used to change the background color of our sites to black in protest over various causes back in the day. Here we are in 2012 and we are back in black. Today you may run into sites that are completely blacked out in protest of the SOPA (Stop Internet Piracy Act) that our government is toying with. ... read more

Jan 13, 2012 Posted by Judith

5 Characteristics of Successful WordPress Site Owners

Everyone wants online success, right? But why is it that so few actually live the experience? There are many reasons — buying into the hype, not willing to work hard, not willing to learn… I could go on. But for those who do reap online rewards there are certain characteristics they all have in common when it comes to having a successful WordPress Web site.Prioritization of Certain Tasks:... read more

Jan 3, 2012 Posted by Judith

How to Update to WordPress 3.3.1

January 3, 2012: 3.3.1 WordPress 3.3.1 Security and Maintenance Release This maintenance release fixes 15 issues with WordPress 3.3, as well as a fix for a cross-site scripting vulnerability that affected version 3.3. As always, when updating WordPress, themes or plugins, it doesn’t hurt to get in the habit of following the simple steps below… Step-by-step instructions to help you safely and... read more

Dec 30, 2011 Posted by Judith

Top 10 WordPress Site New Year’s Resolutions

At this time every year we review our business status and methodologies and come up with resolutions to try to improve our success and profitability in the year ahead.  Excluding your WordPress Web site  from this important effort considering online is more fluid than ever before would be a serious misstep. For your convenience and consideration, I update this post each year so you can get a reminder of... read more

Dec 2, 2011 Posted by Judith

WordPress Site Stat Tips You Can’t Live Without

You know you are getting traffic to your Web site — but that isn’t good enough! You you really need to know the nitty-gritty of your Web sites statistics so that you can plan accordingly when it comes to landing pages, new content or even revising/resurrecting older content. Did you know that you have this data at your finger tips 24/7? If your hosting server has a cPanel, you’ll find... read more

Oct 31, 2011 Posted by Judith

Top 10 Scariest WordPress “Boo-Boos”

These little tid-bits, my pretties, are just a few of the small excruciating details that can make the difference in whether your visitors run for the hills or stick around. Are your site visitors screaming in glee or agony over your WordPress site? Do they have the urge to brush away cobwebs or run EVP sessions to see if there is any activity going on that they may be missing? With Halloween just a... read more

Sep 28, 2011 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: Prepare for the Holidays

Yep, it’s almost October 1st. That means you had better be seriously thinking about the Holidays and strategically planning what needs to be done on your WordPress site — now. Not next week or next month; now. If you are like me, you hate the fact that there is already Halloween candy being pushed in the local Walmart for weeks now. And, Christmas decorations are now available — heck... read more

Sep 23, 2011 Posted by Judith

WordPress Landing Page Checklist

Have you ever clicked on a sponsored ad for a particular product or service to only land at the site where the product or service you are interested in isn’t the focus of the page — or even on the page for that matter?  This is called landing page lost opportunity causing most folks to dive for the back button! Bouncey-bouncey! Landing page “how to” inquiries come in daily here at... read more

Sep 16, 2011 Posted by Judith

WordPress Custom Menu Tips

Before WordPress 3.X your site navigation menus were not that easy to customize. You generally had a one menu for your pages (the standard and customary stuff site visitors expect to find that rarely changed) and your categories that contained your posts that you added on regular basis. Your menu order was displayed in the default alpha-numeric order that you could reorder to your liking but it was a... read more

Aug 12, 2011 Posted by Judith

Fabric: Elegant and Easy to Use Premium WordPress Theme

As WordPress becomes more sophisticated themes are becoming increasingly robust and even more feature rich that one could have ever imagined. And that isn’t going to slow down anytime soon. With that comes additional functionality and the use of plugins that can seem complicated. Particularly for those just getting their feet wet when moving their outdated HTML sites over to WordPress. What... read more