Being a business owner, you only want the best for your site. However, if there’s one thing you should expect from transitioning your business online, it’s that you are sure to make mistakes along the way. Errors aren’t necessarily bad – it’s how you recover from those mistakes that separate the great from the rest. […]
5 Quick Tips to Improve WordPress for Beginners
WordPress is easy to use but contains a few gotchas for the uninitiated. We discuss five tweaks that will improve any new WordPress install. Although WordPress is fairly easy to get to grips with, if you’re new to the world’s most popular CMS, it’s easy to miss a few simple tweaks that can seriously improve […]
4 Reasons Images May Be Slowing Down Your WordPress
Many of us feature images on our WordPress sites for both aesthetic and marketing purposes, but could these pictures be hindering your site? Unfortunately, images or their associated plug-ins can be responsible for slowing down your site, a recipe for disaster if you’re trying to expand your audience and convert customers.
WP Couch Mode Plugin: For Readers Who Want to Focus on Content
We may be bloggers, content providers, writers, or whatever you want to call yourself, but at the end of the day, we are also consumers. If you think about it, when we’re not writing, we’re reading. Or playing games, in some cases. 😉 Source Some that reading time may be because we want to be […]
This Basic Practice is What’s Missing From Your WordPress Blog Business Strategy
So you’ve acted on your vision and goals and launched your WordPress blog. Your creative juices are flowing, you’re publishing like a mad man, or mad woman, you’re sharing and connecting on social networks and making a name for yourself online. Great job, you’re on your way to the top! You’ve found a formula you […]
How to Determine When it’s Time to Use a CDN for your WordPress Blog
Over the past few years, Content Delivery Networks (CDN) have become increasingly popular and affordable as websites owners seek new ways to increase speed and improve security. In as few words as possible, CDN’s help to distribute your website’s content across the globe to ensure that wherever your visitors may be, your website can be […]
Writing Your NaNoWriMo Novel On WordPress
Source As a guy who does a lot of writing, I’m constantly aware of my predilection for procrastination (and alliteration). If I can put off writing something, I will. It’s not because I don’t love writing; it’s just that putting a dent into a blank page can be a significant psychological barrier (can a nonexistent […]
Overcoming 7 Common Problems With WordPress
Less than a decade ago the cost of a new website was several thousands of dollars and the process would easily take a couple of months. Today, however, the least experienced user can be up and running with a functional website in a couple of hours and an investment of less than $50. This dramatic […]
The 5 Most Underused WordPress Features
When it comes to blogging, you need to know how to use your tools to their maximum potential. Whether they’re for researching, writing, publishing or promotion, knowing how to use the tools of your trade is vital to your success. However, of all of those tools, none is more important than your blogging platform as […]
Change WordPress 3.2 Editor Font
With the launch of WordPress 3.2 a new monospace was introduced for the editor. Not everyone likes monospaced fonts though. Justin Tadlock explains how to change the editor font, via a simple addition to your theme’s functions.php. After applying Justin’s tip, your editor will look like this: