Wordpress is definitely the most used blogging platform on Internet and that’s for a bunch of reasons: it’s free, modular, expendable via plugins and it’s it can be transformed into almost any kind of site type you want. That’s why Wordpress deserves a category on John Pope’s.com
One of the best ways to be efficient when writing online is to use a keyboard shortcuts while working. I've always been a fan of hot-keys and for a good reason: it's way faster than moving the mouse all over the screen (or screens is you use a multi monitor setup). In the case of Wordpress I've n
You heard me and other people talk about Wordpress, the CMS (content management system) that powers a lot of blogs and small websites these days. It's free, it's powerful and it's easy to use but what are the deeper reasons people use it? I'll try and explore this topic for you but I warn you, this
Your blog is as healthy as your sever is. If your website is unavailable traffic goes down and your business is in danger. That's why is very important to take care of your blog, and if you've choose Wordpress there are a lot of plugins out there to help you do just that. I'm going to present you in
First of all, what is Google Custom search? Simply put is a search tool that you can integrate in your website so when someone looks for something on your website the results page uses Google’s search engine to seek the correct pages through your entire website. On the plus side, besides bett
The database of your blog is one of the most important things to remember to backup from now and then. The database contains your posts and links to the images/videos and other things (non text) that your post contains. Without it there's no way you could restore your blog after a crash/hack or natu
If you're running Wordpress on your blog or website you must have encountered XML Parsing Errors for sure. Usually those errors are caused by CR (Carriage Return characters) or Space chars in your PHP Wordpress files. The aforementioned chars were inserted when files were copied through FTP or when
I have been using Wordpress on my blogs in the past three years and it literarily grew before my eyes evolving from a small little CMS to one hell of an extensible blogging platform used by millions. And what's beautiful about it is that everyone can enjoy it, even if they don't own a hosting pla
It's often said that how you look defines who you are. This is particularly true for your blog or website: if it looks good there's a change it is good, so users will want to stick around a little longer. That's why is important to invest time and/or money in a design that differentiates your websit
My favorite blogging/crm platform, Wordpress, just got a new update with version 2.7 codenamed Coltrane, after the famous American jazz saxophonist. The new release brings nice features like the fully customizable interface, sticky posts, threaded comments, automatic Wordpress update and more. Check
What do you do if you're like me and have a lot of Wordpress blogs and forget the admin password? I'm not saying it's something common, but if you always use programs/browsers that remember the passwords you type someday you may accidentally clear the cache you get into the situation where you have
