Plugins have so much to do with making your WordPress site and your experience using WordPress great. I’m often asked which plugins I recommend people use on their sites so here’s a list I’ve put together of 10 useful WordPress plugins. As with any list like this, some plugins may fit your site’s needs and […]
Sometimes you just need a bit of text next to your WordPress navigation menu. Here’s a quick and easy way to add custom text to your navigation.
Recently it has become shocking easy to set up A/B tests on your own website. A number of companies such as Optimizely and Visual Website Optimizer have made experimenting with your site simple, accurate and fun. I’ve spent the last two months running trials with both services and have been thoroughly pleased with the results. […]
If you’ve added content to a custom post type that’s part of your theme and for some reason you need to change theme, your data won’t be deleted, but you will no longer have a way to access it. Adding that access back is rather simple though. Here’s how.
Many WordPress users find their shared hosting plans do not allow them to add large files to their WordPress sites. They are often capped at 8 or 20 MB, but some hosts go as low as 2 MB making it difficult to include just about any media. Our dedicated server and hosting allows for up […]
Most WordPress users have a set of tasks they do with every site they deploy. There’s actually an easier and faster way to go about this though using the excellent BackupBuddy plugin. I picked up this tip from Nathan Ingram at WordCamp Birmingham. Here’s how it works: Getting Started First we need to create our […]
Over the years, I developed a list of what to do after installing WordPress that I follow nearly every time. For people who are new to the WordPress community, I though I’d share how I normally get up and running. If you need help installing WordPress, there is a quick video here that can walk […]
