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8 Basic SEO Recommendations for WordPress Sites

It’s no secret that WordPress is one of the best platforms to host a website for business. In fact, the popular platform has over an estimated 1.3 billion active users. Even so, improving SEO is something that many businesses struggle with. In today’s digital world, search engine optimization needs to be at the root of…

WordPress vs Drupal: Two Content Management Systems Compared

Comparing WordPress to Drupal is a bit like comparing apples to oranges. There is a fair amount of overlap in what each content management system (CMS) can do. However, the users commonly drawn to each have different backgrounds, technical capabilities, and reasons for wanting to build a website. Both WordPress and Drupal are top of the…

The Pros and Cons of using Plug-ins and External Code Libraries

When you install a plug-in, theme, or module into your web application, you are in effect allowing additional, custom code to be placed in (or run from) your web site. In a perfect world, this additional code is safe and does what it says it does – but there is always a risk that the…

WordPress 3.2 Makes it Even Easier to Blog

For years people have been making WordPress the most popular blogging application in the world. And in one bloggershumble opinion this is rightfully so. But don’t take my word for it. The latest release, 3.2 (code name Gershwin), has already eclipsed 3 million downloads. And it was only released on July 4th. The newest update…

Installing WordPress Plugins to extend and enhance your blog

In our earlier videos in this series we’ve covered the follow topics. Install WordPress with just one click via the control panel. How to configure the basic settings for wordpress, including Search Engine Friendly URLS. How to upgrade WordPress to the latest version manually How to automatically upgrade WordPress if you’re running 2.6 or later.…

Changing your theme in WordPress

In our earlier WordPress tutorials we covered how to: Install WordPress with just one click via the control panel. How to configure the basic settings for wordpress, including Search Engine Friendly URLS. How to upgrade WordPress to the latest version manually How to automatically upgrade WordPress if you’re running 2.6 or later. In this video…

Updating WordPress Automatically

In a recent blog post I discussed how to upgrade WordPress to version 2.7 which was a manual process. Recently WordPress updated to Version 2.7.1 (which means we need to upgrade .. AGAIN). But there’s good news.. WordPress Automatic Upgrade Has ARRIVED When you first log into your WordPress dashboard you’ll see a link at…

Upgrading your WordPress Blog to the new 2.7 Version.

In this video we’ll walk you through upgrading your WordPress installation from the 2.6 version to the newer 2.7 version. As with any web application it’s important to keep the software up to date and free of any software defects (bugs) or security vulnerabilities. WordPress is in wide use and actively developed against and as such this is a…

Adding a WordPress Blog from your Control Panel

Adding a blog to your website will give you numerous benefits to your search engine ranking. Two of the most important aspects of a blog are the ability to easily add content to your website and building links to your content which will cause search engines like Google to index your site more frequently. Before…

Creating an Online Magazine or E-Commerce website with wordpress

Andre recently blogged about how many people are using wordpress as more than just a blog engine, they’re using it as a full blown content management system (CMS). I’m pretty well versed in WordPress and what’s available for it and today I was looking around today for new themes and plug-ins we could integrate with…