WordPress

Welcome! Below you’ll find my thoughts on WordPress and info on handy dandy WordPress Plugins . This is a self updating list, so be sure to visit it again or sign up for my rss feed.

• Tuesday's Tear Sheet: Northern Lights It is Tuesday, right?Well since it's Tuesday and I wanted to start a new series of posts, I figured a spin on tear sheets would be a great way to share what I've been working on design-wise and introduce y'all to new bloggers I've come across. I'd lik...
• YaY! You Moved to WordPress Self Hosting! What now? Congrats on making the move to complete independence!As a companion to my last post The Ultimate Why and HOW-TO leave your free blog behind! Here's a list of must have free WordPress plugins and what they're for! There's a link for the first plugin, b...
• Your WordPress Blog...Living in a danger zone. Importance of Backing Up Your WordPress Site A few months back I installed Website Defender which basically scans your site and tells you what changes to make to strengthen your security. I did this. Not sure what I did wrong but totally screwed up my si...
• WordPress Image Sliders And Galleries That Kick Ass Four things I doubt you know about me:I love me some wordpress plugins; I've got 52 installed on this blog at the moment I spent 12 years of my life working with photographers My Fotolia.com subscription ended yesterday :( Goodbye awesome visuals...
• Your Blog On WordPress, Working It Like A Pro So You're Wondering..."Should I make the move to WordPress?" I've seen this Q a lot lately, so I'm here to share why I feel a blogger interested in generating money from their blog should make that move. I recently shared why moving to self hosted WordPr...
• Things To Do After Installing WordPress (for beginners) WordPress: Getting Started Yep this post may seem pretty basic, but quite a few of the steps listed are sometimes missed, so I wanted to share the steps I usually conduct once I have a new site setup for a client. The Sample Defaults Delete them sucker...
• Sick of manually interlinking? Promoting Your Other Posts So y'all know the importance of a "Recent Posts" widget and having a plugin like "LinkWithin" or "Recent Post Thumbnails" installed, right?If not, the short of it is, having these elements available gives your readers insta...
• Does Your WordPress Blog Design Kick Ass? Blog Makeover that Screams You! For those of you now joining our program, the contest is over and if you didn't enter, then you've missed your chance at a Free Custom Designed WordPress Theme that will just scream individuality by being professional or s...
• Organize Your Blog for Better Business Part 2 Organized Navigation Have you read Part One to this post? Please do. It's important that you grab paper and pen before moving into anything Technical. Let's get Technical WordPress Users So I was pretty bad about categories back in the beginning. I mus...
• Going from Blog to Biz and Giving Out Freebies Giving it Away, an Investment in Your Business Believe it or not, the first thing you do when you launch a new service or product is, you give it away. For free. Yep.Promotional giveaways are nothing new in business. Or in blogging.In business yo...
• Why not turn your blog into a business? We bloggers have something businesses don't... Natural Marketing Power.Or at least I think so.Here are my thoughts on this. I'd love to hear your feedback in the comments section.Have you noticed how many bloggers are making money? Maybe not ...
• WordPress: Don't Fear The Learning Curve The Blogger (Blogspot) to WordPress Learning Curve The first time my blog went down, I headed over to the BlogFrog community to see what other bloggers were using. Though the majority suggest WordPress.org self-hosting, I headed over to WordPress.com fre...
• WordPress (Self Hosted), The Best Move I Ever Made Fourteen months ago, when my blog barely had 2 dozen posts, I decided to leave Blogger (BlogSpot). I barely had readers, I had no type of alexa ranking or page ranking to speak of and at the time I wasn't interested in the blog making me money.  ...
• Shortcodes Out-of-Whack? Wordpress Shortcodes Just a quick tip for my fellow wordpress bloggers. If your shortcodes aren't loading and all you see when you publish is the actual code and not the element the shortcode should produce - for example, a slider - run through your plug...
• The Skinny on Wordpress Plugins For Wordpress.org Newbies Man, The Skinny Scoop is always cooking up something new! If you haven't heard of the Skinny Scoop yet, you are totally missing out! They offer a way to make decision making fun! Learn from fellow female bloggers what's a keeper, what's a bummer and how ...
• SEO Made Easy Why do we put effort into Search Engine Optimization? If you're looking to have your articles found in a Google, Bing or Yahoo search, your articles need to be SEO friendly. When a user heads over to a search engine and types in keywords that relate to o...