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Offer Something Premium for Free and Get Paid for Extensions – Inspired by WordPress SEO by Yoast
I’ve always liked the idea of offering something of value for free that sets out to advertise your other offerings. It’s not a new…
How To Secure Your Wp-Admin Backend: Htaccess Apache Authentication
As a result of the recent brute force attacks on self hosted WordPress sites, I decided to create a second level of authentication for…
How To Secure Your WordPress Installation (Video)
In this article I am going to discuss some of the general tweaks that can be performed to improve the security for a WordPress…
Forget SEO – Use WordPress and WooCommerce for Your Online Store and Get Rankings by Accident – Part 1
A friend of mine built an online store several months back and didn’t take SEO into consideration for even a second. He, being an…
Changing WordPress wp-admin Path Using Lockdown WP Admin
WordPress is a secure-ish system by default but there are still several things that can be changed to make it a more secure environment.…
Recent Botnet WordPress Attack: How to Secure a WordPress Website
In light of the recent WordPress attack where a botnet of “tens of thousands” of computers tried gaining access to WordPress blogs across the…
WordPress For Beginners: I Just Bought a WordPress Blog, Now What? I Say Change the Theme First
My friend just bought a WordPress blog that was setup as a WordPress Network (although the network part isn’t currently being used). He first…
WordPress Security Measures – Advanced
I wrote an article recently about applying some of the more common security tweaks to WordPress to make it a more robust system than…
20 WordPress Security Tips And Best Practices To Secure Your Blog
In this article we will discuss WordPress security and give you 20 tips to enhance the security of your blog. Tip 1: Consider Htaccess Authentication to…
Using XAMPP and WordPress To Develop Websites Locally From A Remote PC Over Your Home Network
XAMPP is a great way to get started with local development of your site – if you have a spare PC or laptop you…
35 Best Free WordPress Plugins of All Time (And For 2017)
WordPress is one of the best free content management systems / blog system that powers millions of websites and an incredibly high percentage of…
Video: Advanced Anti-Spam Tip for WordPress
Have you been getting spam comments to your WordPress blog? If not, it’d be rare if it never happens to you unless you already…
3 Tips To Speed Up Your WordPress Blog Or PHP Based Site Without A Caching Add On
Caching web site files that do not change frequently can decrease load time for a web site significantly. Decreased load time means that pages…
An Amazing WordPress Plugin For Copywriters: Landing Pages
Many people ask me, “What are some good WordPress plugins and themes for which Copywriters can use to make their lives easier?”. While there…
Top 5 SEO Plugins For WordPress
Even Matt Cutts, the head of the spam team for Google, will tell you that WordPress out of the box is very SEO friendly.…
How to Build an Amazon Store with WordPress
Amazon is a very popular online store that sells a wide variety of products, especially from the original U.S. based Amazon site. It even…
How to Find and Fix Broken Links on Your WordPress Site
Broken links are annoying for both web site visitors and for search engines. Fortunately, it is realtively simple to find and correct broken links…
Top 10 Free WordPress Themes for Professionals
WordPress is arguably the top blogging platform AND content management system on the Web, and it’s freely available. In addition, it is robust, extensible,…
How Can I Delete All Comments in WordPress
It has happened to me before where I left comments on on a blog and didn’t mean to, and after awhile when I finally…
Video: Running PHP Code in a Post or Page in WordPress
There are many ways to “skin a cat” as they say, and this saying holds true for adding PHP code to WordPress pages and…
Top 4 Professional Networking Platforms
We live in an age where a big bulk of our social interaction happens online. Social media platforms provide a fantastic opportunity to network…
Top 5 Giveaway Tools for a WordPress Blogger
Every successful blogger knows that updating your blog with engaging material on a regular basis is a must if you want to grow your…
How to Reinstall WordPress
On occasion, WordPress, for whatever reason, may need to be reinstalled. If the user messes around with the core files, they might need to…
Adding Google Analytics to WordPress
Google Analytics is a free tool provided by Google that, among other things, tracks the visitors that visit your WordPress blog or site. The…
Top 5 Most Popular WordPress Plugins
WordPress keeps track of the most popular WordPress plugins. The popularity rank isn’t based on the number of downloads (because history would make the…
Forget SEO – Use WordPress and WooCommerce for Your Online Store and Get Rankings by Accident – Part 2
In the first part of this series I talked about the product and the tools used for the online store. In this part I…
Forget SEO – Use WordPress and WooCommerce for Your Online Store and Get Rankings by Accident – Part 3
Continued from parts 1 and 2… Let’s start with the home page. Across the top is a logo and nothing else (he plans to…
8 Reasons Why WordPress is the Best Platform for Everything
Have you ever thought about blogging? Are you looking for a place to sell your products? Need a nice website to promote your services?…
How Can I Switch From WordPress.com to WordPress.org?
A lot of times, when asked, I suggest to people to setup a self hosted WordPress blog before even considering a blog at WordPress.com.…
Top 5 Niche Responsive WordPress Themes
Choosing a repsonsive theme for your WordPress blog is a wise choice. It essentially helps your web site to “respond” to the screen that…
Can a Pinterest-friendly WordPress site boost up your traffic?
Can a Pinterest-friendly WordPress site boost up your traffic? The main reason why a Pinterest-like page is welcome to WordPress is that the former…
Top 7 Social Plugins for WordPress
It’s no secret that social networking sites have infiltrated almost all available platforms online, from websites to blogs and everything in between. You won’t…
8 Simple Tips to Optimizing WordPress Analytics
One way to increase traffic, ranking, conversions and all that good stuff you want for your WordPress site is to optimize your WordPress analytics.…
How to Add Click to Tweet to Your Articles
When you want to get past your prospect’s barriers and make your voice heard, one of the best ways to go about it is…