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Video: How to Deactivate a WordPress Plugin if You Lose Access to the Admin Dashboard
It’s happened to me before more than once where I couldn’t gain access to my WordPress admin. Most of the time it was in…
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…
How Can I Build a WordPress Site Offline – Part 2
In Part 1 of this article I walked through (and provided a video for) the downloading of the server software to be setup on…
Video: How Can I Build a WordPress Site Offline – Part 1
In order to run WordPress you need certain software in place. A lot of times you will hear that you need a good hosting…
Enable Google Analytics Demographic And Interests Report To Learn More About Your Site’s Audience Affinity
Knowing what people visit your site can make a really difference, not only can it change your entire perspective on your content strategy, but…
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…
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…
Top 7 Advertising Management Plugins for WordPress
Most people want to make some profit from their blogs, whether it’s making a living or just using it as an additional income source.…
10 Great Resources for WordPress Beginners: Tutorials And Plugins
If you are just starting to build sites in WordPress, or want to boost your techniques as a blogger or developer, there are plenty…
The Best WordPress Security Plugin For 2013 (Triagis Reviewed)
There are a lot of security plugins out there for WordPress, but most fail to address the basic needs that we need to feel…
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…
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…
Turning Your WordPress Blog into a Social Network: BuddyPress vs. Mingle
There are numerous possibilities of things you can do with WordPress. Besides using it to power your blog, you can create a full-featured website…
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…
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.…
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…
10 Fastest Ways To Make Money (Online) Without A Website / Spending Money
First let’s think about a general approach strategy – if we want to earn money, either online or offline you have to offer something…
Move Your Blog from Hosted to Self-Hosted WordPress in 6 Easy Steps
Many blog owners start out with a free service, like Blogger, hosted WordPress.com or Tumblr. As their content amount and traffic increases, though, the…
Top 7 Premium Magazine-Style WordPress Themes of 2014
A shift to magazine-style themes has been a popular trend among bloggers in the last couple of years, and WordPress gave it a further…
Video: How Do I Install WordPress on a Subdomain
I was doing some research using Google Suggest to find queries that I can provide answers to for people. One query that popped up…
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…
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.…
10 Great WordPress Themes for Wedding Sites
A website is an important component of any wedding planning process these days. It lets you share your story with friends and family, provide…
10 Essential Free WordPress Plugins for a Small Business Site
You have launched your small business site using WordPress and picked a theme that will do a good job at representing your company. But…
10 Newest WordPress Plugins For 2014 You Might Want to Consider
There are plenty of popular WordPress plugins to choose from, allowing you to add useful components to your site like improved SEO, social media…
Top 7 Online Marketplaces for Selling WordPress Plugins
WordPress provides a great platform for plugin developers, with multiple tools available online and a large user base to rely on for support and…
Top 7 WordPress Contact Form Plugins
WordPress is a great content management system, but every now and then you’ll find yourself missing a few basic features needed by any website.…
3 Tips for Using WordPress for Your Online Portfolio
If you are a designer, photographer, developer or an artist, having an online portfolio will greatly increase your chances of getting hired by potential…
Top 7 Plugins for WordPress Event Sites
You might be thinking of starting a WordPress-powered event website, or maybe you are already running one and just want to add more features…
Top 3 CMS Compared: WordPress, Drupal and Joomla
If you need a powerful and versatile CMS for your new website, there are several popular options you might want to look into. What…
5 Useful WordPress Tips for Beginners
You might have heard and read a lot of great feedback on WordPress as an easy-to-use, intuitive and flexible content management system. But if…
Top 6 Ways to Attract Subscribers to Your WordPress Membership Site
You have designed and published your WordPress membership site, made sure everything works and started spreading the word. But how do you quickly get…
Top 6 Recipe Plugins for WordPress
Many food lovers blog about their culinary adventures these days. In fact, the trend has become so popular that Google has created a dedicated…