I love promoting useful and relevant products and services that clients have created. Carole Seawert has done just that in her new eBook “How To Write A Brilliant Blog“. While I focus on the technical side of blogging, the important side is always the content and the eBook concentrates on how to turn your blog… Continue Reading
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MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad Review
Do you use a stripe advert across the top of your site? I was sent a copy of MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad for review. This is a plugin for those ads you see at the top of the screen with a special offer or in my case an offer to subscribe to my email list. For… Continue Reading
How To Backup WordPress
A few months ago I launched a backup and update service in order to help you keep your themes, plugins and WordPress itself up to date as well as making backups in case of disaster. With the recent news of massive hacking attempts against WordPress sites, having the latest versions of plugins and themes and… Continue Reading
How To Fix The WordPress Visual Editor
Have you got the issue in WordPress where the Visual Editor is not working? You can see the Visual and Text tabs but no icons or buttons are showing? This has been happening a lot for brand new installs for various clients and readers emailing me. If it’s an existing install that you’ve had for… Continue Reading
How To Speed Up Your WordPress Site – New Free eBook
I’ve added a third eBook to my free eBooks that I give away to all email subscribers. This one goes through the best ways to speed up your WordPress website with step-by-step instructions. Speed. Itβs what we all crave in todayβs busy world of work and home life. Whether we are waiting for a train,… Continue Reading
How To Add Google Analytics To WordPress
I get asked a lot how to add Google Analytics to a website. For WordPress this is really easy. 1) Go to http://google.com/analytics and sign up and add your website. They will give you some tracking code but just leave that page open for now. 2) In your website’s WordPress admin dashboard to Plugins >… Continue Reading
How To Set Up Google PageSpeed Service With WordPress
Recently Andrew over at We Build Your Blog let me know that Google’s PageSpeed Service was now available for website owners to use. What is Google PageSpeed Service? It’s a service that essentially takes your website, optimizes it for speed and then serves it back to readers seamlessley. This video explains more: How do I… Continue Reading
Why Your Website Needs To Be Responsive
I don’t use infographics much, but this one stuck out to me as helps explain why your website needs to be responsive – that is, look good on mobile devices. Mine does, as it runs Headway, but does yours? If you’re selling something via your website (and you should) then take a look at the… Continue Reading
The Best Dedicated WordPress Hosting
Recommending WordPress hosting is always tricky because most hosting companies pay for referrals. So some people simply refer the company that pays the most. For many years I have recommended HostGator. I still do, their support is awesome and for small starter sites I still don’t think you can beat them. However what about larger… Continue Reading
Please Copy This Website!
I get a lot of emails asking me all sorts of questions, but at least once a week (often more) a potential client will say – “Please copy the look of this website….” or “I want my website to look very similar to….”. My answer is always “Why?”. Of course I know the answer. It’s… Continue Reading