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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 [...]
A number of people have contacted me about how to move their Typepad blogs over to Wordpress. Typepad doesn’t make it easy. But at least you can Export a Typepad blog to your computer desktop as a .txt file.
Then, Wordpress – the friendliest blog platform – makes it easy for you to import. First, though, [...]
Over the holidays, there were some “too-good-to-be-true” sales on Web site hosting by some hosting companies. “Unbelievably low” prices! You know the hype. One hosting company got so many inquiries that its site crashed … that is not a good sign.
Let me explain why hosting prices have gotten so low:
Competition among an over-supply. There are [...]
There is a lot of buzz about the new Thesis theme for Wordpress. So, I asked the people at Thesis for a few words to describe what’s special about this popular theme:
You want your blog to shine, but you’re tired of sifting through hundreds of subpar themes? DIYthemes is proud to bring you the answer [...]
No one wants their blog to get hacked. But, it is happening more frequently by obviously malicious hackers. Part of the reason could be because everyone knows the username of any Wordpress blog – it’s admin. So, all a hacker has to do is develop a software program to figure out the password.
If you have [...]
It was an interesting but not unusual challenge – to move a popular blog from one hosting platform to another, without interruption. Like so many bloggers, my friend Steve Kayser started his popular blog – Riffs, Tiffs and What Ifs – on Blogspot a couple of years ago and came to realize Blogspot’s limitations and [...]
Plugins bring an incredible array of added features to help customize any Wordpress self-hosted blog. I have written about some outstanding and highly useful plugins here before. Â Let me now highlight the valuable plugins created by Lester Chan. I am test driving his WP-Polls plugin for the online poll that you see in the center [...]
One of the most useful features of blogging on the Wordpress self-hosted platform is the ability to write a post, and schedule it to appear in the future, precisely on a date and time of your choosing. I frequently use this feature to schedule advance posts on two blogs I manage – BoomerCafe.com and BahaiWords.com. [...]
I am amazed by the number of blogs with incorrect permalink configuration, which will ultimately impede their ability to achieve accurate audience rankings.
Think of permalinks as the distinctive way to organize and identify each posting on a Wordpress blog, and the way to alert search engines, Technorati, Feedburner, and visitors about new blog posts. It’s [...]
The next major Wordpress software update, version 2.7, is expected about November 10.Â
Lots of advance news updates and discussion are already online as the Wordpress community worldwide vets builds of the software.
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.
