The most important blogging design improvement for the last few years has been use of the featured image or thumbnail image. This small rectangle of color provides the user with an visual teaser which they can click or tap in order to find out more or read a whole article. More and more WordPress themes [...]
Even people like me who are old enough to remember the great sound of a dial-up modem (when I listen to that I still feel excited!) know that there is a need for speed on the internet. The above video on speeding up WordPress is part of a course I’m doing on Udemy about blogging, [...]
For the last few months now the blogosphere has been hot with the word “podcast”. As podcasting is not as ubiquitous as video, small businesses can utilize this medium more effectively as there is less competition. If you want to start a podcast you could do no worse that to go to the podcasting expert, [...]
Small business owners may be required to do many things. Selling, accounting, marketing … yes. But, master the dark arts of SEO? Surely not! You should, of course, be concentrating on creating the best products and providing the best services. That’s a “given.” But there is a reliable way of creating an ongoing stream of [...]
One of the ways WordPress can be made to act like an all-singing, all-dancing CMS is with custom page templates. These give you the ability to make any page on your website look and/or function differently to all the others. Here I’d like to explain how you make a custom page template for Genesis. Genesis [...]
The first time I saw WordPress widgets I thought “what on earth are these useless pieces of dog’s do?” Now I think that widgets are awesome website building devices that should have pride of place in any website designer’s toolbox. What are WordPress widgets? WordPress widgets are self contained bits of website code that can [...]
Every WordPress site is different. This is because everybody chooses a different theme or “look and feel” for their site. Creating a header and top navigation menu in WordPress will be a slightly different process for each site. Here I am using the Genesis theme framework for WordPress because I absolutely love it. However, there [...]
In my last post and video I explained how to make a child theme for the Genesis theme framework in WordPress. In this article I explain how to start styling the Genesis child theme. Here you can see where we left off last time with the Genesis child theme only just set up plus an [...]
I often ask the visitors here what they would like to me write about and the most common subject people mention is making your own WordPress theme. WordPress is a powerful publishing platform which can be made to act and look like just about any kind of website. What are WordPress themes and how do [...]
I moved a WordPress blog to a new server and a new address this week. It was one of those jobs that I dreaded doing but didn’t turn out to be too complicated. And I’ve not lost any traffic! Why was I moving a WordPress site to a new domain? A few months back I [...]
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