How to Secure your website

There are a few quick easy tips to just give yourself a step up on the would be hackers out there. 1. Upgrade – Always make sure your running the latest version of wordpress.  If you are self-hosted do this as soon as you receive notice of the latest upgrades.  If you are using managed-hosting [...]

Reader Interaction made Easy

Comments are the best way to engage your readers and keep them coming back. 1. Pretty Comments – Add some formatting capabilities to the comments text areas. 2. Comment Notifier – Currently WordPress only sends an email to the email address entered in the Options->General->E-mail address field when any new comment is submitted or that [...]

How to Add an Image

I love pictures!  of course they have to fit the topic, but a picture really can speak a thousand words. Adding pictures to your posts and pages takes a few simple steps. I am making one assumption that you have pictures stored on your computer, that you have permission to use the pictures.  Check out [...]

What is the Pagemash Plugin?

Updated: June 10, 2010 This Plugin has been retired, you can find info on the newest plugin CMS Tree Page View Here With Pagemash you can Customize the order your pages are listed in and manage the parent structure with this simple ajax drag-and-drop administrative interface with an option to toggle the page to be [...]

Where to Find Themes

Some great resources to find themes. Still use your best judgment and test, test, test. Speckyboy.com – An online web design magazine with all kind of articles on the topic. Click on the WordPress tabs for lists of themes, useful plugins, free icon sets and more. Blogohblog.com – These guys provide both free and premium [...]

Search Engine Optimization

SEO or Search Engine Optimization is pretty easy.  How can others find you on the web faster and easier?   Answer this question you are well on your way. WordPress makes is really easy, with many built in features, like permalinks, categories, tags, RSS, etc.  There are also a few plugins that allow you to get [...]

Applying a new Theme

Fundamentally, the WordPress Theme system is a way to “skin” your weblog. Yet, it is more than just a “skin.” Skinning your site implies that only the design is changed. WordPress Themes can provide much more control over the look and presentation of the material on your website. A WordPress Theme is a collection of [...]

What is WordPress?

What is WordPress? WordPress is a powerful open source publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of features designed to make your experience as a publisher on the Internet as easy, pleasant and appealing as possible. WordPress is freely distributed, standards-compliant, fast, light and free personal publishing platform, with sensible default settings and [...]