Wordpress Tips

WordPress is Easy to Edit…Except Those Widgets. Help, I Don’t Know HTML!?!

By |2016-10-23T17:21:48-05:00September 5th, 2016|Wordpress Tips|

As a website designer for small businesses, part of our sales pitch is that we use Wordpress.  And Wordpress, with a bit of basic training, is conducive to DIY website updates.  With one exception - those danged Widgets.  No part of Wordpress REQUIRES so much as a basic knowledge of HTML - except those danged [...]

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Optimizing WordPress for Small Business: City-Specific Landing Pages

By |2016-10-23T17:21:49-05:00February 10th, 2012|Local SEO, Wordpress Tips|

For small business clients trying to expand beyond the city limits for their business, we'll often implement a landing page strategy whereby we create essentially city-specific "home" pages designed to target a specific keyword-city combo.  This video explains the process in detail. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqijw3YlEaI

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Overview of How a WordPress Site is Put Together

By |2016-10-23T17:21:49-05:00February 5th, 2012|Wordpress Training Videos|

This training video is a basic overview of how most business websites that use Wordpress are put together. The video includes explanations of the various elements of a Wordpress site including headers, menus, widgets, sidebars, blog posts and pages.   [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DtkaqO5QW4

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Basic Overview for Using the All-In-One Event Calendar Plugin for WordPress

By |2016-10-23T17:21:49-05:00February 4th, 2012|Wordpress Training Videos|

The All-in-One Event Calendar Plugin for WordPress from TheSeedNetwork.com is a beautiful calendar plugin for Wordpress that is incredibly easy to use. This video walks you through the basics of how to manage the events for your Wordpress site. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyVaDklYl0s      

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Free Content and Linkbuilding with Brad Callen’s SEOLinkVine

By |2016-10-23T17:21:51-05:00January 24th, 2012|Monetizing the Internet, Search Engine Optimization, Wordpress Tips|

Call us intrigued...We just signed up for Brad Callen's SEOLinkVine service. The service is about $70 a month and provides you the ability to receive free articles to load up your blogs with content - AND the ability to distribute articles for publishing throughout the SEOLinkVine blog network.  The concept is brilliant.  Hopefully, the execution [...]

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Measuring the Impact of SEOPressor for WordPress on Search Engine Rankings

By |2016-10-23T17:21:51-05:00January 24th, 2012|Search Engine Optimization, Wordpress Tips|

What is the impact of SEOPressor for Wordpress - the SEO plugin - on search engine rankings? We've been hearing about SEOPressor for Wordpress for quite a while now and today we finally took the plunge and decided to try it out. For under a hundred bucks (for developers), it seemed worth the gamble. Most [...]

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Top 10 WordPress Plugins For Website Designers

By |2016-10-23T17:21:52-05:00January 17th, 2012|Wordpress Tips|

Stand next to water cooler at a meeting of web designers and inevitably the topic of favorite Wordpress plugins comes up.  It is not unlike a first meeting of two iPhone users...What apps have ya got? So without further ado...here is my Top 10 Favorite Wordpress Plugins for Website Designers (The Wordpress plugins for website [...]

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How-To: Disable Purchasing in WP-ecommerce

By |2016-10-23T17:21:52-05:00June 1st, 2011|Wordpress Tips|

Literally the gold standard for e-Commerce on the Wordpress platform is the WP-eCommerce plugin by GetShopped.org.  The plugin, including optional upgrades, is an incredibly powerful tool that is simple to use and quick to implement.  However, some aspects of the interface are less than intuitive - including how to temporaily turn off purchasing without disabling the [...]

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