Freaky WordPress catastrophes and site crashes, and how to prevent them

You should pay attention to this post. It may be a little drier than I sometimes am, but I’m going to tell you how to cover your ass in the event of a website mishap. I learned through experience and figured I’d share.

So here’s what happened.

Last Wednesday, I decided to sleep in (which is rare), and Robin came into the bedroom after I’d laid around enough and said, “Apparently your site is … Continue Reading

My Scribe SEO review

There’s some real meat to this review of Scribe SEO (and even a cool video) further down, but let me give you a bit of background as to why I’m writing this first. Why? Well, before you know what something can do, I think it’s important to answer the question of “Why bother?”

So:

What you have to understand about this review of Scribe SEO — a software service that helps users SEO optimize … Continue Reading

How to add plugins and themes to a WordPress site or blog

So you want to install some stuff on your blog, right? Some cool stuff? Well, there are two main kinds of cool things to install on your blog (or, for that matter, on your $100 website, if I built one of those for you — they’re proving to be really popular, don’t you know). Those cool things are themes and plugins.

Let’s start with plug-ins.

Plugins are so badass. If you want … Continue Reading

Your tour of WordPress, so that you can actually use it

I realized that I always assume people know how to use WordPress after I set up a blog for them, but I’ve discovered this isn’t always true. There have been a few who have gotten the keys to their blogs and said, “Thanks! Now what?”

The video below will show you what you need to know. And by the way, I created it for my Zero to Business course, so if you find … Continue Reading

WordPress in general is cool, but here’s why versions 2.7 and especially 2.8 are particularly badass

The title says it all. But if you’re on a version 2.6 or earlier and would like to upgrade and be 1) more secure, 2) more stable, and 3) able to easily upload your own new themes and plug-ins, I’d be happy to do it for you.