When you register a domain, it’s quite a bit like buying a house: just like at city hall, your name is now out there in public. You have options.
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Attention: Important Notice. Domain Service Notice
How do you know when these legit-sounding emails are, well, legit? You sometimes need to actually read that fine print.
The Hidden Cost of Cheap Hosting
Does your host adhere to certain standards so that if another developer logged into the control panel they wouldn’t have to read the manual?
Conversion Rate Optimization 101
Conversion Rate Optimization is a lot of fancy syllables basically saying, “How do I turn more visitors into buyers?”
Site Deployment Best Practices
When setting up a new site, you have several options before you go live. Here are some pros and cons to your choices.
Changelog
The changelog can be something of a secret weapon to gauging the competence of a theme developer.
Custom Menu Shortcode
Looking to add a list of pages or posts or categories or anything into a page? Create a custom menu first and then use this shortcode to put it anywhere on your site.
CSS Gradient Generator
Using CSS gradients, you can get that slick Photoshopped look without the images or even Photoshop.
Hey, I found a great theme!
“Hey, I found this fantastic theme! Can you customize it?” Of course I can. But it’s analogous to going to the house contractor and saying, “Hey, I saw this gorgeous house. Can you build it?
How to search a site that doesn’t have a search function
If you know one little trick, you can use Google’s powerful search engine to search for any content on a single site–even if that site doesn’t have a search function.
Delete Your Old Accounts
If you don’t use an email address any longer, delete it. It’s not always as easy to do as you think!
WordPress as Learning Management System: Sensei
You’re 25% done with the lessons on learning how to play guitar. Wow, can your website do that kind of learning management? Sensei can.
We Can Do This the Easy Way or the Hard Way
We can do the Quick and Dirty job or we can do the job right. Or is it not so straight forward?
If you’re only going to do one thing to protect your WordPress site, try this one.
If your administrative login is still the default “admin” you’re basically giving a headstart to the hackers. Now all they need to do is guess your password.
Why I Don’t Use Custom Post Types
I have tried to stay away from Custom Post Types (not a post or a page, but another type of “post” in WordPress) in case I change themes or plugins and they’re no longer compatible or friendly or just don’t work the way I want them to.
