WordPress 4.4 (AKA Clifford) is Available Now
In my opinion the best feature of the WordPress 4.4 released today (8 December 2015) is builtin support for responsive images. Upload your images and WordPress 4.4 does the rest! Now your images will look great on all devices: desktop, tablets, and smartphones. Also included in this version is a new theme. The theme is…
Read MoreHow To Maintain Your WordPress Website
Although I’m sure there are car owners out there who don’t maintain their vehicles, I think that number is probably quite low. Why would you invest your hard-earned money on something and then neglect it? Even if you have others take care of your car maintenance, you still need to be aware of fluid levels,…
Read More3 Prescriptions to Prevent WordPress Disasters
You may have heard the old saying, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” It is certainly true when it comes to your WordPress website. If something were to happen to your WordPress website today, how long would it take for you to recover? Here are three essential prescriptions to prevent WordPress…
Read MoreWordPress 4.1 “Dinah” released today
The latest update to WordPress has been named in honor of jazz singer Dinah Washington. The WordPress core developers must really love their jazz, since this isn’t the first release to be named after a jazz musician. WordPress 4.1 includes a new default theme Twenty Fifteen. The new theme uses the Google font Noto. If…
Read MoreWordPress 3.9 is here
WordPress.org released version 3.9 last week. They named this release “Smith” in honor of jazz organist Jimmy Smith. There are over 200 changes in WordPress 3.9. The changes came in four major areas: the Visual Editor, Media Handling, Widgets, and Themes. You can now paste directly from Microsoft Word without bringing in all the excess code.…
Read More7 Emerging Responsive Navigation Design Patterns
More and more people are using mobile devices to surf the Web. In the beginning, web site owners were told they should have two versions of their site a .com for desktop users and a .mobi version for the mobile users. That recommendation has evolved over time. Today, they (I’m not actually sure who “they”…
Read MoreCustom Thesis 2.1 Skin for “Home Changes Staging & Redesign”
In July, DIY Themes released the Thesis 2.1 Theme for WordPress, which in my opinion is a huge improvement over the 2.0 version. I have loved learning how to use this new tool and was excited to recently create a new website using a custom Thesis 2.1 skin. “Home Changes Staging & Redesign” is a…
Read MoreGoogle+ versus Facebook
You as a business owner know that you should be involved in some way with social media. You probably started out with Facebook or Twitter. Later you may have added other social platforms to your web presence after you got comfortable with your first one. As time has passed, some platforms have come and gone,…
Read MoreCustomize Your Facebook Page Web Address
Adding a username to your Page makes it easier for people to find your business, brand or organization’s presence on Facebook. Your Page web address can be used in marketing communications, company website and business cards. You can customize your Facebook Page web address by selecting a unique username. It will appear in the location bar of…
Read MoreHow To Use Traffic Travis’ SEO Competition To Move Up in the SERPs
Since 62% of the clicks on search engine results pages (SERPs) occur on the first page, it is vitally important to get your web page listed there. Traffic Travis is a free SEO software tool that can help you figure out who are your competitors and what steps you can take to move up in…
Read More5 Favorite Features of Traffic Travis
Whether you have a large corporate site or a personal blog, you want people to find you. Usually they find you through search engines like Google, Yahoo! or Bing. Statistics show that websites that show up on the first page of click results get the most clicks. In fact, 62% of all clicks in search…
Read MoreNEWS: Brute Force Attack on WordPress Sites
No, this isn’t a false alarm. Please pay close attention. At least 90,000 IP addresses have been affected to date. I know that one of the accounts that IWD maintains was hit yesterday. I was able to shut them out and protect the site from further harm. Symptoms of the attack: Slow back-end admin area…
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