Keeping any website secure should be an ongoing process and WordPress sites are no exception. One of the easiest ways for a hacker to access your WordPress site is to simply guess your username and password. “Admin” is the default username for many older installations of WordPress and hackers know this. Now that he has… [Read More]
Search Engine Optimization for your WordPress Blog
You have a WordPress blog and you have even been posting blog posts regularly, but you don’t seem to be generating a whole lot of new traffic. What search engine optimization efforts, can you undertake to have your blog achieve better Search Engine results and start generating more traffic? You need to optimize each blog… [Read More]
How to Promote Your WordPress Blog for FREE!
Blog marketing is quickly becoming a critical part of any online marketing strategy but having a blog isn’t enough – you have to promote it. Your blog could be jammed packed with brilliant and useful ideas but it will have no effect if it has an audience of one! I am going to outline 2… [Read More]
Tags? Categories? Learn How to Organize Your WordPress Blog Posts
Imagine entering a library and finding all the books lying in a pile on the floor. How would you find what you were looking for? If you are not using your blog categories and tags effectively you might as well be building that pile of books on the floor. Libraries use a cataloging system that… [Read More]
Choosing Pictures For Your WordPress Blog
Photos are worth a thousand words or so the saying goes. On the web this is only true is the photos you are using are quality pictures. If you are using poor quality photos on your blog the photo is only saying one word – Unprofessional. For your blog photos and graphics to be truly… [Read More]
Combatting Comment Spam on Your WordPress Blog
Are spammers targeting your WordPress blog and filling your comments with spam? Do you spend too much time weeding out the bad comments? There are several things you can do help control WordPress comment spam: Akismet Plugin Akismet filters out your comment and track-back spam for you. It will automatically filter your comments. This is… [Read More]
Site Stats for Your WordPress Blog
Wouldn’t it be nice to log into your WordPress blog and see how many visitors you have had, instantly know the most popular posts, pages and even find out how visitors arrived at your site? The Site Stats from the WordPress JetPack plugin do just that. The Jetpack plugin gives users of the stand-alone version… [Read More]
Is your WordPress Website Up To Date?
WordPress regularly issues updates to the WordPress architecture. Sometimes there are critical updates to address security issues and other times the updates are to introduce new functionality or fix some bug issues. Regardless of the reason for the update it is essential that you keep your WordPress Installation up to date. It is also important… [Read More]
Back-Up! Back-Up! Back-Up!
I can’t say it enough – Make sure your WordPress database is being backed-up regularly. Hopefully you never need to use it, but if you do you will be grateful you made the effort now. I like to use WP-DB-BackUp as it lets you schedule back-ups and have them emailed to you. Depending on the… [Read More]
How to Add Author Images and Comment Images (Avatars) to your Blog
Ever wonder how to get those cool avatars to display on your WordPress blog, either as author images or in your comments? I always recommend that clients use Gravatar. What is Gravatar you may ask? Gravatar is a service that lets blogs display user provided pictures from a central database. Basically when users sign up… [Read More]
