Category Archives: Wordpress

Special Report: Tips for Your Business Blog

You may feel overwhelmed with the idea of blogging and are unsure where to begin. To help you get started, Sue has created a Special Report, Tips for Your Business Blog: How to Get Started, What to Write, How to … Continue reading

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How to Install WordPress

A chap on Linked In asked for my advice on how to install WordPress. I wrote out a quick email and thought I’d include it here. This is our process, but it’s off the top of my head, so if … Continue reading

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WordPress Tutorial Video Transcription: Managing Links and Link Categories

We are working on transcribing all the audio from our video tutorials. Following is the transcription for the Managing Links and Link Categories video tutorial. On the web you’ve seen on various blogs the list of links to other sites. … Continue reading

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WordPress Tutorial Video Transcription: Changing Basic Widget Settings

We are working on transcribing all the audio from our video tutorials. Following is the transcription for the Changing Basic Widget SettingsĀ video tutorial. Today we’re going to modify widget settings such as Pages, Categories, Recent Comments, Recent Posts, Top Posts … Continue reading

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WordPress Tutorial Video Transcription: Updating WordPress (back up your database and theme folder first!)

We are working on transcribing all the audio from our video tutorials. Following is the transcription for the Updating WordPress video tutorial. If you’ve been using WordPress for any length of time, you’ve seen the message “WordPress 3.5 (or other … Continue reading

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Ready Set Go Instant Blogging: $300

It’s not a sale, it’s an experiment. How would you like to have a ready-to-use no-brainer zero-hassle blog and website? What if it included hosting for a year including babysitting all the WordPress security updates, your own domain name, and … Continue reading

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Stop Fussing About a Theme and Focus on Plugins

The late Michael Been, bass playing singer/songwriter for The Call, knew how to focus on what matters.

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Buy Hosting Before New Year’s, Get the Website Free

The last two weeks of the year are slack time for us. Nobody starts anything new; they’re all waiting for the New Year for New Things. Not you. You’re a rebel. You suffer from the burning impatience that characterizes the … Continue reading

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Mad Colors and Courier Font

When I first created this look in 2002, the reactions I got surprised me. In the 10 years since then I’ve learned a lot about what people expect, how we connect, and where the two cross over—and that, sometimes, they … Continue reading

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Why Are You Standing in Line With 16 Million People?

According to Quantcast, WordPress.com has 16 million visitors every day. Sixteen million. Per day.

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