When you log in to the WordPress admin area to add content, you have an option for posts, media, links, and pages. For some websites, that does not make sense. Let say for instance, you want to list book reviews on your website. That’s not a post or a page. I ran into this situation […]
3 Sources For Website Images You Can Legally Use
I want to look at where to find images you can legally use on your website or blog. Of course Google is the first place that comes in mind when you are trying to find anything on the internet, but it is not always the best choice for website images. Yes, you can filter images […]
What You Need To Know To Find Images On Google You Can Use On Your Site
Adding images to your website and blog posts can increase the interest of readers and help to highlight a point. I highlight recommend you use images as long as they are appropriate and LEGAL. Don’t just be going to Google and grab any image, just because it is returned in an image search. There is […]
How To Move Your WordPress Site To A New Host
In a previous post I showed you how to backup your site using BackupBuddy. Today I am going to show you how to move your WordPress site to a new host. On the “Restore & Backup” options page you should click on “Restore/Migrate”, which will prompt you to save the importbuddy.php file. Save that file […]
How To Backup Your WordPress Site To Move To A New Host
In this post I am going to walk you through how to backup your WordPress site in preparation to move it to a new host. To create a full backup of your website you should use backup buddy. According to the Pluginbuddy website, “BackupBuddy is the only complete solution for WordPress backups.” Basically backupbuddy is a […]
How To Create Pagination In WordPress Posts
To break one post into multiple pages you have to use one of the hidden features of WordPress. According to the WordPress Codex: At one time there was a Next-Page quicktag button but it was deleted to reduce the clutter on the quick tag bar. By breaking post up you increase post load time. This […]
How To Add Breadcrumbs To Your WordPress Website Or Blog
Breadcrumbs make navigation easy for both visitors and search engines. Many WordPress themes don’t come with breadcrumbs automatically. So In this post I will tell you why you should add breadcrumbs to your website and how to add breadcrumbs to your theme. Benefits To Visitors Breadcrumbs first of all tell your visitors where they are […]
How To Safely Keep Spam Comments Off Your Blog
Spammers are looking to get backlinks to websites from your blog. Spam comments are often generic and unrelated to the post. They often link to questionable and offensive content so it is important you remove it fast. Links from your blog to porn, gambling, prescription drugs, malware and other potentially dangerous websites can hurt your ranking with Google […]
How To Customize The WordPress Dashboard
The WordPress Dashboard comes with a number of default modules that provide information about things such as Incoming Links, WordPress Plugins, and WordPress News. That is great if you want to see the latest info about WordPress. However, the average WordPress Website Owner sees the modules as clutter. In this video I will show […]
How To Create A Database and User In The LunarPages Control Panel
New Lunar pages hosting accounts now come with the Lunarpages Control Panel(LPCP) instead of cPanel. This video is a step by step walk through of creating a database and and a database user in the LPCP. If there is interest I will show you how to use that info in the WordPress config file. […]