This article is a great short overview of the WordPress structure, function, and development tracks available. This includes, plugins, themes, WordPress’ own blog, mobile sites, and the WordPress codex. I find the codex to be an invaluable resource when I am coding websites. Although I can not write php from scratch, I have become well […]
Responsive WordPress Menu Plugin for Mobile Devices
If you have a website and it is not already mobile friendly… well, it should be. This is a quick way to make your menus mobile friendly. Using this plugin makes menus of a specific width into a drop down menu. If your menu structure is completed using WordPress’ built-in menu structure, you should be […]
How To Engage A Local Market on Twitter
I had forgotten about this article until this morning! To put it bluntly, I like just about everything Scott says, and I love Twitter. So this article combines two things I really enjoy. My biggest takeaway from this article is the ease of searching Twitter for potential local customers. Using Twitter’s own search box, you can […]
Use Plugin Last Updated to keep an eye on your aging plug-ins
What a great idea! Security has been on my mind a lot lately. WordPress is extremely popular and, just like anything, as it gets more popular it becomes a sweeter target for hackers and spammers. There are many ways a WordPress website can be attacked, and having outdated plug-ins can be one of the easiest […]
4 Rookie Mobile Marketing Mistakes to Avoid
This Small Business Trends article hits some of my biggest issues about mobile marketing. In the article, they mention “Using Mobile to Share Non-Mobile Content.” Basically, sending potential customers that are going to view your site on a mobile browser to a non-mobile ready website. This is a common problem with a simple solution. Here’s […]
Spice Up Your Articles with Photos! 5 Photo Plugins
WPMU (one of my favorite WordPress websites) has a quick review of 5 plugins for adding images to your website – legally. Now, here’s the thing – I know a lot of people (including myself in the past) who simply go to Google’s image search, type in what they’re looking for, and use those images […]
4 Reasons Why Contests Should Be Part of Your Marketing Strategy
I know a lot of folks that start out the new year wanting to improve their social media presence. Contests can help kick off a new year or a new product/service you are offering. By combining these contests with WordPress plug-ins such as gravity forms, you can make your website part of your marketing team. […]
Cool Plugin: IQ Block Country
With all of the security issues we had this week, I spent a little extra time trying to figure out how to make our websites are little more antisocial. One of the biggest things I needed our WordPress sites to do was to simply block most traffic coming from specific countries. Although there are some […]
WordPress Is Under Attack
My, WordPress has gotten popular this week… As some of you know, on Thursday our hosting server was attacked. This was part of a global coordinated effort to brute force attack WordPress sites. It kept us busy throughout the day and into the evening Thursday, but we were able to get everything under control for now. […]
Executing Shortcodes in Custom Fields
While creating custom fields for a website this morning, I ran across a problem – short codes would not execute in the custom field. I came up with a solution that involves some complicated coding. I wasn’t really happy with this, as my client would have to remember a lot of code to use these […]