Securing your login screen is one of the simplest things you can do to help increase the security of your WordPress website. By implementing two-factor authentication, you make it much harder for people to gain unauthorized access to your WordPress dashboard. Fortunately, Duo Security is a free service (for up to ten users) offering two-factor… Continue Reading
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WordPress Security 101
You have put a lot of work into setting up your WordPress website. You have gotten it installed, added your plugins, chosen a theme, added your widgets, created your menus, and finally added posts and pages. But have you thought about security? Have you taken steps to protect your blog from people who want to… Continue Reading
BackupBuddy 2.0 First Looks!
After much anticipation and waiting, BackupBuddy 2.0 is finally here! For those that don’t know, BackupBuddy is an automated backup solution for WordPress (you can also check out this webinar on how to use BackupBuddy). This release has some major updates and improvements. In this article, I take a look at the new features of… Continue Reading
Beware the WordPress SEO gremlins!
If you use a plugin (such as All-in-One SEO or Headspace) or theme option to manage your SEO on your WordPress website, be careful of using shortcodes at the beginning of your post. By default, the majority of these plugins use the first 150 characters of the post content to generate the description meta-tag for… Continue Reading
Creating Your Mobile Website with WPTouch Pro
In my last post, So, You Want a Mobile-Friendly Website, I discussed the challenges of creating a website suitable for mobile devices and my plan for creating of mobile version of this site. In this post, I am going to detail how I implemented that plan. Before we do, let’s just review my plan. I am… Continue Reading
So, You Want a Mobile-Friendly Website?
Recently, a number of my clients have asked about making their WordPress websites mobile device friendly. Therefore, I decided to embark on a quest to make a mobile version of this website in order to learn what was involved, and if it was simple enough for my clients to do by themselves on their sites…. Continue Reading
How Do I use the WordPress 3.0 Menu Creator?
In this video tutorial, you will learn how to use the WordPress menu functionality to add custom menus including pages, categories, and external links.
How do I enable support for WordPress 3.0 Menus in Thesis?
One of the new features in WordPress 3.0 is the Menu generator. This lets you create menus containing categories, pages, and links all together. However, many themes have not yet released updates to enable this functionality. In this tutorial, I will show you how to enable your Thesis powered blog to take advantage of the… Continue Reading
WordPress 3.0!!!
WordPress 3.0 is out, and this is a major upgrade with some huge advancements. Just as soon as we have had a chance to check it out we will tell you the good, and if there is any bad or ugly. Here is a video that gives you the details (watch in HD if you… Continue Reading
How do I Add a Feature Box to Thesis (Without using a Featured Category)?
There are many tutorials out there about adding a feature box to Thesis, but they all have one fatal flaw: they tell you to use a “Featured” category. This seems innocuous enough, but it causes unwanted results for my clients: they now have a category that shows up in widgets and other areas of the… Continue Reading
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