I have a love/hate relationship with featured images on WordPress. I love them but I often forget to set them. Usually I am just forgetful and end up publishing posts before I have the feature image set. That is ok for me who knows what I have done and can go back and set the… Continue Reading
InkThemes has released the Traffic theme and it is a beautiful theme perfect for businesses and personal websites of all sizes. It is available as a free theme from the WordPress Theme repository as well as an upgraded theme directly from InkThemes. The screenshot below is the upgraded version but even the free version offers… Continue Reading
I have been really busy this last week so did not get much time to write a post but I wanted to let you know what I have been working on. I have a architecture client that I am moving their current site into WordPress. That is not all that uncommon, but what is interesting… Continue Reading
There have been reports that a distributed attack is going on trying to brute force WordPress websites. If you run a WordPress website you should be aware that your site might come under attack. I have noticed one site that is managed by me come under attack in the last 24 hours and it has… Continue Reading
I get a lot of questions from new clients that are new to WordPress about what theme to choose. For those clients that have limited budgets it is always an interesting discussion because creating a custom theme for WordPress is a rather time consuming and therefore more expensive proposal. While I am always happy to… Continue Reading
I was reading the official WordPress blog and noticed that they have a post on the new WordPress 3.6 Beta 1 being available. Some of the new features that are coming in 3.6 include: Post Formats: Post Formats now have their own UI, and theme authors have access to templating functions to access the structured… Continue Reading
While I am a fan of Monty Python’s Spam skit, I am not a fan of automated WordPress spam, and it seems to be getting worse every day. Of course the large majority of WordPress comment spam is just automated comments posting directly to the WordPress wp-comments-post.php file. I have used different methods in the… Continue Reading
If you run a WordPress powered website you probably know how important it is to backup your website database and files. If you don’t know that you need to be doing that please start! There are lots of different methods to backup your WordPress database and files and I perform regular backups of my site… Continue Reading
Building a website used to be extremely difficult. You had to know HTML, cascading style sheets, possibly javascript and graphic design. Things have changed, now it is possible to build a website in under 60 minutes. Don’t believe me? Here are the steps you need to create your own website in 60 minutes. Step 1:… Continue Reading
One of the tasks I have been doing regularly lately is converting older static HTML websites into WordPress websites. For smaller websites it is not difficult to copy and paste the data into the new WordPress site. The problem is, what do you do with a larger website of a few hundred to a few… Continue Reading