Month: October 2012

The current default theme Twenty Eleven is generally a good starter theme for many bloggers, but it does have a couple of annoying quirks such as not placing a sidebar on single posts, even if you select it as your…

The in-built post scheduling feature of WordPress is super-handy….until it starts not to work. Then it is a cause of huge headaches. I’ve yet to find a clear cut answer as to why it happens, but sometimes WordPress will fail…

An extremely common request by WordPress users is how to change the font in their posts, pages and themes. Many themes, especially premium ones, provide a set of options in the dashboard that lets the user easily modify the fonts…

Unless you have already amassed thousands of “likes”, or have money to spend on Facebook Ads, Facebook is notoriously hard to gain traction on at first. It takes time to build up “likes”, and even when you have a decent…

Trust is something that most businesses strive to develop with their customers/users/audience. Readers of  Chris Brogan will know it’s one of his cornerstones and something he’s written extensively about. Trust has to be nurtured and maintained as a value that guides…

Ah contact forms….such as a standard feature of a website aren’t they? One would think that WordPress would have tons of great, easy-to-implement choices for this. And indeed there are TONS of choices, it’s just that most of them have…

Mailchimp is providing a pleasant surprise for users upon logging out by presenting them with a gallery of beautiful email marketing designs from some of their users. Take a look and consider how you can improve your own email transmissions.…

What Is Jetpack? Jetpack is a plugin created by the team at WordPress.com. It is one super-plugin that contains a whole suite of features – mini-plugins, if you will. It was created to make available to self-hosted WordPress users some…