If you have used WordPress for any length of time, no doubt you’ve been on the hunt for a great social media plugin many (many!) times. I know I have… It should be easy to add social share buttons to your site – in fact it IS easy to add social buttons and that’s part […]
4 Simple Softaculous WordPress Install Security Tips [Video]
Softaculous WordPress Installation I recently reviewed the Social Blog Blueprint (it is a very good blogging course for beginner and intermediate bloggers). My main gripe was showing 1-click installation of WordPress. The course recommends installing WordPress via the Softaculous script. I did notice that Softaculous allows you to change some of the default WordPress settings […]
Social Blog Blueprint Part 2 (Ramp Up Your Blogging Results)
In my previous blog post we talked about what to expect with Social Blog Blueprint by Sue and Dan Worthington. The basic course is ideal for small businesses who want to set up and start blogging on their own domain. One you’re set up and posting your first posts, what then? Traffic doesn’t just turn […]
12.5 Essential WordPress Plugins For Your Business Blog
Where would your WordPress blog be without a plugin or two? WordPress plugins add functionality to your blog. They make blogging easier, more secure or just simply prettier. With over 31,000 WordPress plugins available in the WordPress repository alone, how do you start choosing? When you see lists of 50 or 101 essential WordPress Plugins, […]
Video Blogging Challenge Day 5
Wow, we’ve reached day 5 of Bonnie Gean’s Video Blogging Challenge and so far I’ve kept up! In this video blog, I want to take the opportunity to nag you about WordPress usernames and passwords. There are a LOT of attacks going on at the moment – including an attempt to force the login and […]
Murphy’s Laws of Moving my WordPress Site
Some months back now, I said I was going to move My Local Business Online from Hostgator to my reseller host at WebHosting Buzz. Oh how I tried to move my WordPress website… and tried and tried again! It should be simple. It is USUALLY simple. Finally, I hope I’ve succeeded in moving this blog! […]
WordPress 3.7 Automatic Update Feature (Should You Use It?)
WordPress 3.7 is here (doesn’t seem like 5 mins ago 3.6 was released!) Named “Basie” after jazz musician Count Basie (yes, I had to go look up who he was…) WordPress state that version 3.7 contains “some of the most important architectural updates we’ve made to date .” It wasn’t a totally smooth update to […]