Speeding Up Your WordPress Blog

People use WordPress because it is very easy to install and very user-friendly. After setting up your WordPress blog, you obviously expect people to check out your site. However, it is important that you be prepared for an overwhelming amount of traffic. If not, you might end up having a crashed site. A lot of people don’t prepare their site for... [Read more ⇒]

Protecting Your WordPress Blog

Setting up a WordPress blog is easy. It was designed for easy installation, customization and you just need to activate some plugins to enhance your website’s functionality. After adding content, you may think that you’re already done. However, that’s where your wrong. A lot of people tend to forget about the importance of securing... [Read more ⇒]

Importance of Taking Backups of Your WordPress Blog

Building a website is not an easy task. It takes a long time to create starting from planning, implementation, and testing then finally the launching of the site. After everything is finished, you feel a sense of fulfillment because you finally have your own website which you can show to other people. This project is surely something that you would... [Read more ⇒]

Best SEO Plugin: All in One SEO Pack

After installing WordPress and putting up content on your blog, the next thing you need to do is to optimize your website for search engines. Having an attractive website is not enough, you need people to visit it for it to be useful. What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? SEO is a technique where in you construct individual web pages so that they... [Read more ⇒]

Contact Form 7: Bridging the Gap Between Visitor and Webmaster

Importance of a Contact Page There are certain pages that are essential for every website. However, many underestimate the importance of a contact page. A contact page supposedly is a place where you allow visitors to communicate with you. You can get general feedback or suggestions for the improvement of your website as well as gain income from customers... [Read more ⇒]

Google XML Sitemaps Plugin: How Can It Help You?

What is a Sitemap? Each person or company who owns a website knows the importance of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). It’s just a matter of what strategy you use for your website. One of the most underestimated techniques in SEO is having a Sitemap. A Sitemap, as its name implies, is a map of your site. It shows you the basic structure of your... [Read more ⇒]

Upgrade to WordPress 3.2

What’s New in WordPress 3.2? The newest version of WordPress is now out and available for download. The basic features will remain the same however there are some changes in terms of appearance and functionality. It also promises to be faster compared to older versions. The Dashboard One of the most noticeable change in this release is the new... [Read more ⇒]

Three Reasons the Serious Blogger Needs WordPress Plugin: Post Ideas

WordPress Wednesday Tip of the Week: Save your best Post ideas with WordPress “Post Ideas”!! Blogging for pleasure or for business is an occupation that requires constant updates and a fresh flow of ideas. Most bloggers have plenty to say but unfortunately the times when ideas occur to them may not be when they need those Post Ideas most.... [Read more ⇒]

WordPress: Why Use WP-PageNavi Plugin?

WordPress Wednesday Tip of the Week: A Cooler Way to Navigate! The fans of WP-PageNavi plugin describe it as a more advanced way of navigating pages in your WordPress blog. While advanced is nice, most bloggers care more about how it looks and what kind of experience for their readers a plugin provides.  The good news is that WP-PageNavi looks great... [Read more ⇒]

Tutorial: WordPress Featured Content Gallery

Here’s Your WordPress Wednesday Tip of the Week: WordPress Featured Content Gallery One of the coolest plugins ever developed for WordPress! The Featured Content Gallery adds instant elegance to your WordPress site… But how the hell do you use it? Watch this very informative tutorial to learn the ins and and outs of the WordPress Plugin... [Read more ⇒]

Welcome to your WordPress Dashboard

Welcome to WordPress Wednesday! This is another in the series of WordPress Tutorials in this series from RockYourWordpress. There are many more advanced features, but that isn’t the purpose of this WordPress Tutorial. Below is a summary of what the dashboard is. Your Dashboardl provides access to the control features of your WordPress installation.... [Read more ⇒]

WordPress vs. Wordress

Welcome to WordPress Wednesday! There always seems to be quite a lot of confusion between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. The main difference is simple and huge: WordPress.com blogs are hosted on WordPress.com. A WordPress.org site is self hosted, meaning you host it on your own server (at your web hosting service). This means that it is part of your... [Read more ⇒]

WordPress Tip of the Week: Setting Up Your WordPress The Right Way [Video]

Welcome to your WordPress. So you have logged in for the first time, now what? This video covers the little things you want to do when setting up your WordPress the first time. These “little things” will make your new WordPress website not only more user friendly, but it will also help your site get discovered and indexed by the search... [Read more ⇒]

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants!

Innovate don’t invent. So says my friend Alex Mandossian. What I am talking about in this instance is the notion of leveraging other peoples content. I am not talking about stealing it, simply using something that already has some notoriety and leveraging it. Check it out… Remember Siskel & Ebert’s “At the Movies”?... [Read more ⇒]

WordPress Tip of the WEEK: Adding a Post (Video)

It’s time to Rock Your WordPress! This is the simplest version of the idea of adding a blog post. There are many more advanced features, but that isn’t the purpose of this WordPress Tutorial. Anything new can be daunting. For some of you, WordPress and blogging might be brand new. This video covers the basics of adding a new blog post... [Read more ⇒]