3 Essential Items Most Freelance WordPress Designers Never Knew They Needed

Who are you? You’re a WordPress Designer, or you want to be. You’ve fallen in love with WordPress and design in general. You’ve learned all about designing themes and are more than comfortable tweaking code, working with shortcodes, functions, and plugins. You’ve created a few sites for clients using WordPress because you know how powerful it can be, and yet how easy it is for your... read more

Just How Enticing Are You?

Just how enticing are you? Don’t answer that question yet. First, let me ask you another question. Have you commented on a post here recently? Have you seen the new CommentLuv awesomeness down by the comment form? Yep, I’ve been beta testing the new Comment Luv Premium plugin, and wowsa! I love it! I’m Luvvin’ It!!! Let me tell you why you should be thrilled that I’m using... read more

Amazing Quality WordPress Themes For An Unbelievable Price

When’s the last time you looked at Elegant Themes has really upped its quality over the years, and yet, the best feature of all is this: The price is still only $39 to get access to ALL of the themes. It’s not $39 each. That thirty-nine bucks lets you download and use every single theme they have available. And during the year, any new themes they make are yours to download too! For an entire... read more

6 Great Lesser-Known WordPress Theme Packages or Clubs

I love premium WordPress themes. Generally, they are well-designed and come with lots of great options. The drawback, of course, is that they cost money, and if you tend to create blogs often, that adds up pretty quickly. For those people who love to create new blogs, or are simply theme junkies, theme clubs/memberships or theme packages are great deals. With theme packages, you pay one price to download... read more

6 Powerful WordPress Plugins For Extreme Content Control

If you’ve longed for really powerful plugins to help you manipulate your blog content in ways that WordPress doesn’t normally allow, you’ll probably wish you’d known about these 6 free plugins long ago. Show Content Based On Certain Conditions Below are 3 plugins that allow you to show or hide content based upon certain conditions. Each is useful in different... read more

Hacked Blogs: Who Ya Gonna Call?

How many times have you seen the panicked tweets of people who’ve had their blogs hacked? Ever wondered what you should do if it happened to you? Today, I’m talking to an expert in dealing with hacked WordPress blogs, Michael VanDeMar. Listen, learn, and then be careful out there! How He Knows Donna: I know you have a popular blog post that describes how to completely clean your hacked... read more

Coupon Codes for Hot WP Products

At some point, I’d intended to write some reviews of the following five products designed to enhance WordPress and make it easier for you to create niche incomes. I’ll be honest and tell you that I actually thought I wrote them, but I realized that I didn’t. Whoops, my bad. However, each month, I’m notified of a special deal on each of them, so I figured I’d at least pass that... read more

WordPress Blogging in 3 Easy Steps

The following is a guest post by Stuart Melling WordPress is not only a great blogging tool, it is a great content management system. By using the countless free themes, plugins and widgets available, the possibilities of this software are limitless. I have seen WordPress used for everything from a simple blog to a restaurant’s online presence through to a realtor’s online portal. WordPress... read more

How To Style CommentLuv Latest Post Links

When I first heard about CommentLuv a couple of years ago (I think it’s been about that long?), I tried it out and liked it. At some point, the service had some growing pains, and I decided to remove it until they got some things sorted out. Well, as is normal, I ended up forgetting about it completely and never reinstalled it. Until tonight, that is. I’ve been noticing it more and more... read more

Using WordPress as a Traditional CMS

People often want to create a site that doesn’t look like a blog. Usually, if you ask them enough questions, you’ll find that they want to have a site that mostly consists of “static” pages (content which doesn’t change very often). They want a home page that isn’t a list of reverse chronological, ever-changing blog posts. They probably want to include a blog as a... read more