In the past few years a new breed of web hosts has emerged that focus specifically on hosting WordPress web sites. Some of the key players are WP Engine, FlyWheel, Pressable, Synthesis and Page.ly. These web hosts tend to be a little more…
This is a guest post from my friend and super-talented WordPress developer, Suzette Franck. I’ve mentioned the Jetpack plugin before and in this post Suzette will take you deeper into it’s social marketing features. **** Let’s face it, no matter how pretty…
I’ve posted previously about the in-built gallery feature of WordPress,and some of the simple things you can do using the shortcode. With this post I wanted to share a few more tips and some apparently less well-known features such as…
Andrew Youderian • November 20, 2012 One of the biggest obstacles to launching an online store is finding…
Have you noticed how some Google listings show a wee photo of the author along with a link to their Google Plus profile? This nifty feature is part of Google Authorship which is a way of associating your name and…
This a guest post by my friend and multimedia WordPress wizard, Jason Tucker. He streams live and archives the OC WordPress meetup group, and has recently launched a new Google Hangout and podcast show called WP Watercooler which you can…
My ebook “Beginner’s Guide to SEO for Business” is launching very soon and I wanted to give you a little sneak preview of what’s coming. Check out some pages from the book below. (Tip – click the magnifying glass with…
Andrew Youderian • November 4, 2012 After the last post on hiring VAs, I thought it’d…
WPMU is a mainstay of the wordpress community. As their name suggests, they began as specialists in blogging about and writing plugins for wp multiuser setups (now known as Multisite). These days they cover pretty much all aspects of WordPress.…
Search engine optimization can seem eternally confusing. It’s one of the things that clients want to know about the most, but are also a little intimidated by. There’s tons of SEO advice out there, and unless you understand the jargon,…
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…
The speed at which your site loads is becomig increasingly important. Not only does a speedy site provide a good user experience, but it’s becoming increasingly important from an SEO perspective – site speed is a factor that Google considers…
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…