This video shows you a quick an easy way for you to give your WordPress website's blog posts and pages the potential to do better in Google searches by creating custom document titles. Basically tweaking your sites title tags. Also, in this tutorial I made reference to a WordPress plugin, All in One SEO Pack. You can learn more about that plugin … [Read more...]
I often suggest to my clients, that they break up the text in their blog posts with things like subheadings or bullet points. I've been asked more than once, how can they add bullet points in a WordPress post or page. This video shows exactly how this can be accomplished. Viewing tip: you might want to use full screen mode to be able to actually see what I'm doing! Enjoy! … [Read more...]
Yesterday I posted a video on how to install WordPress through your HostGator cPanel. Once it's installed it automatically uses a theme (template) that comes bundled with WordPress. Changing the Look and Feel Most likely you'll want to improve the look of the website. If you're just looking for a platform that you can pen your thoughts and you don't really care about how the site looks, … [Read more...]
I've said it many times, that if you really don't have a budget for professional web development for your website, you can still set up your own site using WordPress and a predesigned template (called "themes" in WordPress). First thing to do would be to set up a hosting account with HostGator.com. HostGator provides AWESOME hosting services. I've used them for about eight years now and love them … [Read more...]
In Part I of this series I showed you how you can easily create custom menus for your WordPress website (version 3.0 or greater). You can see that video here. In this followup video I'll expand on that to show you how you can... remove menu items have a link to an external site open in a new window/tab rename menu items without affecting the page titles make a menu item un-clickable in case … [Read more...]
Are you new to WordPress? Or maybe you've just never really got a handle on creating menus with WordPress. Well, ever since the awesome version, 3.0 hit the streets, creating menus in WordPress has been VERY cool and easy. In this screencast tutorial I show you how to create custom menus in WordPress (3.0 or greater). … [Read more...]
This screencast shows you how you can create pages in a WordPress site. It also shows you how you can create custom menus and add your pages to them, as well as creating dropdown menu items. You're probably going to want to view it in full screen mode so you can actually see what I'm doing. Hope this helps! … [Read more...]
This short screen cast shows you how easy it is to add a video from YouTube to your WordPress blog post or page. This method would also apply to Vimeo or any other service that provides the embed code. … [Read more...]
I know this seems pretty simple, but this is probably one of the most frequently asked questions I get from new WordPress users. Hope this helps, let me know if you have any questions. … [Read more...]
This is the second design I've done for Ryan Frank and his business, Aqua Have Spas. The first one … [Read More...]
I was reading a post from Hostgator (affiliate link) this morning that gave tips on picking the … [Read More...]
If you recall, last week I reported that there has been a recent onset of WordPress sites being … [Read More...]
I love street photography. I've already got two other photography blogs/sites, so I didn't really … [Read More...]
