Steve Shanafelt dreamed of having his own newspaper. So, six months ago, he launched The Spartanburg Spark, using Wordpress. Here’s what he writes about the experience:
In a few days, SpartanburgSpark.com will be officially be six months old.
That’s an incredibly strange thing to find myself typing. It hardly feels like half a year has passed since [...]
A few days ago, I wrote about my trials with InMotion Hosting. They’ve since called to apologize for, “letting me down.” No kidding … when they take everything off-line for nearly 9 hours for server maintenance, that is letting down customers. Oh, did I also share that they said a cpu usage spike by a [...]
With the increased use and popularity of the Wordpress blog platform comes an increased threat of malicious hacking. I am hearing of Wordpress blogs being compromised and taken-over, often because of weak passwords.
Believe it or not, there are robotic hacking programs that can invade a blog or Web site in seconds, and cause serious damage.
Making [...]
For a while, I thought it was just me … that I was having bad Web hosting karma. But, I have learned that many bloggers encounter issues with unreliable or inconsistent hosting service and empty advertising claims from Web hosting companies.
I once used a Web hosting company that had U.S. flag icons pasted all over [...]
Wordpress 2.7.1 has been released. It is an extremely easy update for any self-hosted Wordpress blog.
Simply sign-in, and you will see a notice to upgrade to version 2.7.1. You are given a choice to update automatically (highly preferred), or to download and upgrade manually. I use the former, and Wordpress updates automatically in less than [...]
Thanks to Mike Durkin, head of Solostream (and @solostream on Twitter), I have just had a chance to test drive the new, updated WP-Vybe theme from Solostream for Wordpress.
I began using the original Vybe theme a couple of years ago, and love it. You can see examples at BoomerCafe.com and DavidHenderson.com. The colors are rich, [...]
Credit goes to a reader who recently asked how to make a blog private. My immediate thought went to the Privacy setting of Wordpress 2.7 (Settings, Privacy in the left column) that will block search engines from seeing and cataloging a blog. But I was not fully correct – she wanted to know how to [...]
Gravatars are growing in popularity, along with commenting on blogs. Gravatars are those small avatars or images, like your picture, that are linked with your email address, and added automatically when you comment on blogs and online forums.
Gravatar.com describes them this way:
A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows [...]
There is no such thing as a “perfect” theme for Wordpress. Each of the thousands of themes available for Wordpress are designed to express individual personality, preferences and purpose of a blog.
During more than five years of blogging, I used Typepad in the first year when I didn’t know anything about blog platforms and found [...]
If you blog about a timely subject that might be reported in the media – such as news stories on a particular subject or issue – consider adding a live RSS News Feed to the sidebar of your blog. It’s a snap with Wordpress 2.7. Here’s how:
Set up a Google Alerton the news issue. You will [...]
Hi there. I'm Michael Pollock, and I train coaches, consultants and other solo-professionals on how to use the web to impact more people, earn more money and live a bigger life ... continued.
