Plugin: Featured Content Gallery (what is it and why is it good)

FeaturedContent Gallery produces a good automatic, completely easy to customize spinning picture gallery anyplace in your WordPress website. Select your own pictures as well as screen groups, webpages or even articles along with customized overlay textual content along with a thumbnail carousel. Customized choices consist of gallery dimension, colour, design and much more. FeaturedContent Gallery [...]

Welcome to the WordPress Dashboard

Congratulations on setting up your first WordPress website.  Now, however, you must learn how to use it correctly to get the most out of your experience.  In order to do this, the dashboard must become your friend.  Here we go! Up at the top, you will see the name of your WordPress site.  Underneath which [...]

What’s New in WordPress 3

There are several notable new highlights in WordPress 3.  The best way to experience these new changes is to download and install WordPress on your own computer.  With a guide, you can go over each step as you need to and learn this version hands-on. The following information illustrates some of the many new changes [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Facebook Comments on Your WordPress Blog

Adding Facebook Comments System to your Site So check this out… You know the cool commenting feature on Facebook that allows you to comment on status updates, pictures, other people’s comments and Facebook Pages? Well, how would you like to have that capability on your own wordpress site? Now you can! What Facebook Comments Is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Seven Social Media Friendly WordPress Plugins

WordPress Wednesday Tip of the Week: Cool WordPress Plugins to help get social! WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms and the value of social networking is undisputed, so the question is how to bring these together. Making a blog or WordPress site social media friendly can result in a more engaging blog [...]

I Like it! A Facebook Like Button for WordPress

For a couple of weeks now, the social media world has been abuzz with the release of Facebook’s “Like” button that has spread across the web like a (dare I say) virus. After the first week, Facebook announced it’s “Like” button, the powerful social network says 50,000 websites have adopted the change. “Already, just one [...]

14 Cool WordPress Plugins

Plugins are one of the reasons that wordpress is so extremely powerful! There are thousands of plugins for your WordPress blog that are completely free, that will make your blog an instant powerhouse without writing a single piece of code. There are tons of great plugins – it is really hard to make a list [...]