About a year ago I purchased a PLR WordPress membership plugin. PLR stands for private label rights, and it gave me the ability to sell the software on my own. As you might expect, the software wasn’t top notch, so I redesigned it and started selling it on my WordPress Membership University site. It’s been […]
So you want to backup your WordPress blog. I suppose you heard someone say that you should. Hopefully you’re not someone who just suffered the crushing blow of losing your life’s work, your Magnum Opus. Whatever your scenario (and I really hope you’re doing this before things go south), I’m going to show you the […]
Among premium WordPress themes, Thesis is one of the best I’ve seen. Thesis looks clean and professional right out of the box. But what really sets Thesis apart from the others is its focus on my four pillars of good theme design; seo, speed, usability and productivity. SEO I’ve discussed these criteria in a previous […]
The other day I wrote this post about WordPress themes. Today I wanted to mention three themes that appear to meet all the criteria for a quality theme and are free. All three look great, but the only one I’ve tested in an SEO capacity is the first one. Each of these themes has been […]
I sat down to write this post about FTP and figured I would make a video about how to do it. But like any good (lazy) engineer, I went first to see what I could find on youtube. All the videos sucked. That’s not because they didn’t show you how to FTP. Instead it’s because […]
A theme in WordPress is what what determines how the blog looks to visitors. As I describe what themes are and how you can make the best use of them it will be helpful to understand that nearly every website has three parts which are: Logic Design Content A theme has very little (ideally nothing) […]
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I’ve had a few clients ask me for a very simple tutorial about creating a new post in WordPress 2.9. After telling them to just head over to YouTube and follow the videos there, I finally went myself and looked for a few tutorials to send along as links. I searched for “wordpress 2.9 video […]
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