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Sunday Catch Up – Wonderful WordPress Edition

April 15, 2013 by Jan Kearney

As the howls of “botnet” and the news of bots targeting WordPress and other PHP based sites echo around the web, I thought a round-up of positive WordPress posts was in order…

Wonderful WordPress edition

Just in case you missed the security warnings – here it is again with how to change your admin username.  

Contents

  • Move To Self-Hosted WordPress
  • Plugins
  • Spring Cleaning
  • Related Posts

Move To Self-Hosted WordPress

As Posterous gets ready to close its doors on 30th April leaving thousands of blogs homeless, it’s a great opportunity to go self-hosted (and a warning why using free services for business isn’t a great idea!)   WPMU have a great post and easy to use plugin ready for those who wish to transfer.

Speaking of making the leap from free blogs to self-hosted, here’s a great tutorial from UploadWP – moving from WordPress.com to Self-Hosted WordPress.org

Plugins

Connecting all your social sites to your WordPress blog can be confusing. Katie over at Iminurinternetmarketing.com lists 5 popular social plugins for you to try out – just not all together please!

Finding plugins for your WordPress site is a bit of a pain.  Generally, I tend to rely on old favourites and recommendations.  Once in a while, I’ll have a “Is there a plugin for that?” moment followed by the teeth grinding search through the plugin repository.

So, it’s great to have discovered RankWP, a new (if still a bit clunky) way to search for plugins via this review by ManageWP

Spring Cleaning

Ok, so not just for WordPress…  If you want to get your hands dirty and do some blog spring cleaning, Unbounce walk through the steps to optimise your business blog.  

Need something less techy and specifically WordPress?  Delia over at BlogFormatting.com has a whole list of easy walk-throughs.  Dig out your rubber gloves!

Prefer a blog make-over?  Kristi Hines has a competition over on Kikolani to win 1 of 3 Elegant Themes memberships – enter before Thursday! 

Over to you…

Do you have a favourite WordPress based post this week?  I’d love to hear from you in the comments!

Sunday Catch Up - Wonderful WordPress Edition by Jan Kearney

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Filed Under: Blogging, Sunday Catch Up Tagged With: business blogging, plugins, WordPress, WordPress security

About Jan Kearney

I believe that every business, no matter how small or how local can use the power of the web to gain more customers. I offer no bull coaching and mentoring so small business owners can strategically put the web to work for their business. I've been called a "compass" and a "navigator" and probably a few more names that aren't suitable for a profile!
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Comments

  1. Retha Groenewald says

    April 15, 2013 at 2:47 pm

    I love WordPress – oh and the plugins – oh the plugins- I think I need a plugin to sort out my plugins

    • Jan Kearney says

      April 15, 2013 at 7:17 pm

      Haha – the plugins! When you’ve finished sorting yours, feel free to start on mine too Retha!

      • Retha Groenewald says

        April 15, 2013 at 8:16 pm

        I was hoping there is a plugin to sort out the plugins

        • Jan Kearney says

          April 15, 2013 at 10:14 pm

          Well there is (sort of!) The P3 Performance Profiler Plugin assesses which plugins slow down your site the most so you can find replacements or take them off totally…

          http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/p3-profiler/

  2. Lis says

    April 15, 2013 at 6:02 pm

    I too am always telling people to have their own space on the web and not get caught up in free stuff. Typically, it’s just a matter of time before they switch over to for fee it seems! I LOVE WordPress and can’t say enough positive about the system!

    • Jan Kearney says

      April 15, 2013 at 7:18 pm

      Hi Lis, WordPress all the way here too 🙂 Thanks for popping in!

  3. Katie S says

    April 16, 2013 at 9:57 pm

    Thanks for the shout-out, Jan!

    What I need is a plugin that posts something brilliant for me whenever I can’t think of anything. When they make that one, I’ll be all over it!

    • Jan Kearney says

      April 17, 2013 at 11:26 pm

      You and me both, Katie! Thanks for popping in 🙂

  4. Eleanor says

    April 17, 2013 at 6:29 pm

    Jan I love how you took the negative and showed the positives about what we all love WordPress for!

    • Jan Kearney says

      April 17, 2013 at 11:26 pm

      A WordPress appreciation day – should be an annual thing! Thanks for popping in Eleanor 🙂

  5. Delia @ Blog Formatting says

    May 20, 2013 at 3:59 am

    Thanks so much for featuring my blog on this list, Jan! Really appreciate it 🙂

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