Wordpress Tips

A colleague just asked where would be the best place to insert ads on her website. She is using WordPress and was thinking of placing ads outside of the main page borders to the right of her sidebars. When deciding on where you should place your ads it is important to understand the fundamentals of […]

This howto covers the basic steps of moving hosting companies … it does not go into detail of moving your wordpress website from one host to another however if you even if you are using the same domain name there may be extended problems you run into within the WordPress database .. the most common […]

WordPress comes with the ability to manage a variety of different file types. If the type of file that you want to upload is not listed in the default file type list then you have the option of editing WordPress to extend the features and allow your specific type or you can FTP the file […]

Getting viewers to your site is the most important step of generating income. And if you have the time to write about almost any subject there are people out there who will want to read it. The fact is you don’t have to be formally trained in any subject to write about it. You just […]

If you have been creating a number of installs on sub-domains within your hosting account and want to migrate them to a single instance of WordPress it is possible to reduce the load of supporting your sites by using a WordPress Network. This process will also work for top level domains that are hosted separately. […]

WordPress has merged a lot of its code and if you have been a user of their .org product for some time then you may remember the forked product WordPressMU. The WPMU version of WordPress allowed for the creation of multiple websites to be hosted within the same install. This was to allow quick creation […]

Some cross site scripting issues were found in WordPress 3.3 and this patch version should be installed to correct those problems. About 20 files are updated however most of the updates are not related to the security problems they are simply format updates to show the new change in version. For all you GoDaddy blogging […]

Every once in a while you will come across the problem where characters in your content do not render correctly. You may see a little box or diamond with a question mark or this character type mismatch could lead to other problems in the management of your site. When WordPress transitioned from the 1x versions […]

When you are building sites for businesses you will often find that it is better to store your content in Pages rather then in Posts. The use of pages for the main content allows you to build a site of about 10 to 30 pages that describes your clients offerings and it can easily be […]

There are a few companies out there that offer Text Replacement Link Ads to help you gain more income from your content but if you want to control your own Text Link Ads there is a relatively easy way to do this without getting caught up in complex javascript and external services. Basically what you […]