A WordPress plugin that’s well worth checking out is Theme Test Drive by Vladimir Prelovac. With this plugin, you can install a new theme simply by copying and pasting the link to the theme’s zip file into the plugin’s dialog box and clicking Install Theme. Once you have installed the theme, just refresh the page [...]

So, you’ve got your blog up and running, and now it’s time to understand the difference between pages and posts. In terms of your site’s navigation, Pages stay in the same place all the time. Some themes make the links to Pages more prominent than other themes. Pages do no go out as part of [...]

Many of my clients, including clients who are putting up blogs, don’t seem to understand what RSS is. In a nutshell, RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. In fact, if you use WordPress or another blog that supports outgoing RSS, your posts are automatically available for syndication. Pretty simple. So, what does that mean?

WordPress is an amazingly effective tool for allowing users to generate a cohesive, feature-rich web site very quickly and efficiently without necessarily knowing any kind of programming or coding. Having said that, the manual installation procedure does require that you know how to upload files to your server, how to create a MySQL database using [...]