There are many reasons to transfer your WordPress site to a new host. It could be due to increased traffic to your website in an aging server or host or worse, your host might have been unreliable from the start. Regardless, transferring a WordPress site is something you’ll eventually need to do as you scale […]
Master WordPress at TakeControlofWP.com [Giveaway]
WordPress is a popular Content Management System and Web Site Creation tool, used by millions of people around the world, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Ford, CNN, NASA, Pepsi, and many more. From beginning bloggers to the more experienced ones, WordPress is arguably the best platform to use. If you’re fall […]
Boost Your WordPress Skills with the 0-100 WordPress Starter Kit
WordPress has become the blogging platform of choice for many – individuals and businesses alike. With the host of features integrated, not to mention countless plugins that can be used to customize and enhance the final product, WordPress is certainly not to be ignored (although it has its fair share of naysayers). If you are […]
How To Transfer A WordPress Site To A New Host Securely & Without Downtime
As a follow up to my article last week on someusefulWordPress plugins that make website migration simpler, I thought I’d give a quick overview on how to get it done safely. The route I’m about to describe is not necessarily the shortest route as some of those plugins did make it less technical. However, I’ve […]
How to Add a Floating Sticky Sidebar to WordPress & Boost Conversions (Without Code)
With readers growing blind to banner ads and attention spans decreasing, we need new ways to increase readership and garner more clickthroughs. Sticky elements that hover, float, slide and pop out at us do tend to have higher clickthrough rates than traditional static content. When used sparingly of course. Therefore, visual appeal and positioning play […]
Creating a Shared Content Box Across All of Your WordPress Blogs
More than five years ago, I was bit by the Autoblog bug. I don’t build them anymore, but I still build WordPress blogs in large numbers. One of my pet peeves when I was working with 100+ different blogs was that if I wanted to interlink them, or have the exact same links on the […]
How to Move From WordPress.com to WordPress.org
WordPress.com is a hosted service, which allows you to set up multiple blogs for free, however there are optional paid options which add functionality to your blog. WordPress.com is perfect for a beginner blogger, however many bloggers find that it is to restrictive and looks unprofessional. In this Conor P. explains how to move from […]
Tutorial: Show All WordPress Image Sizes
Justin Tadlock, of Theme Hybrid fame, has published a new entry describing how to display links to all images sizes within WordPress (or on your attachment pages). The attachment page often is a forgotten area in many a WordPress design. At Splashpress Media we also made sure to pay extra attention to the attachment page […]
How to: WordPress to Jekyll
Paul Stamatiou has switched his site from WordPress to Jekyll. In this extensive review he features a step-by-step how to switch from WordPress to Jekyll, a new static generator. Paul mentions also some interesting details and reasons why his traffic dwindled and how this had a massive impact on his earnings. What is Jekyll Jekyll […]
WordPress 3.1 Post Formats Guide
Lisa E. Sabin Wilson takes a look at the with WordPress 3.1 Beta introduced Post Formats in an extensive tutorial. In the post Lisa, from WordPress for Dummies fame, provides examples and the code to get you started with your own Post Formats for WordPress and even helps you on the way to get started […]