Web Development

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…

Andrew Youderian • September 21, 2012 The only thing harder than successfully marketing your eCommerce store…

As soon as you own your own website you will quickly amass a large number of online accounts – your web hosting account, FTP access, WordPress access, Google, Twitter, Facebook etc etc. This leads to 2 main problems for bloggers.…

A common question I’ve been getting as of late is about how to embed a PDF into a WordPress page/post so that it’s actually viewable inside the post. If you use the Upload/Insert button to add your .pdf in the…

Andrew Youderian • September 6, 2012 Learning SEO can be an intimidating process. There’s an incredible…

Andrew Youderian • August 27, 2012 This is the first in a series of posts about…

A common question that clients ask me is about how to automatically update their Facebook page, Twitter account or other social profiles, when they publish a new blog post. There are many ways to do this – here are a…

Andrew Youderian • August 10, 2012 I get asked a lot about drop shipping, so I…

If you are a graphic / web designer accustomed to coding websites in static HTML, as opposed to PHP or some other database-driven system, making the move to WordPress can seem difficult and frustrating at first. Having had several clients…

Andrew Youderian • July 18, 2012 Once you’ve made the decision to make an online store,…

Andrew Youderian • July 9, 2012 If you’ve never worked with a drop shipping supplier, the…

One of the most common question I get is “Where do I look for legitimate drop…

Andrew Youderian • June 4, 2012 Google’s keyword tool is a powerful resource for discovering great…

Here are the slides from my presentation at this weekend’s Orange County Wordcamp. I presented on “Fun With Gravity Forms”. Gravity Forms is a premium WordPress plugin that is worth paying for! Since much of my presentation was a live…