Tag: blogging tips
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My Erstwhile Top WordPress Theme Picks
Note: I’m in the process of an updated post on my favorite WordPress themes. Though the themes I reviewed here were quite good in 2015, they are not all among my top picks in 2020 (however, the free version of Make remains a decent choice, while Vantage and other SiteOrigin products still rock!). I’ll be…
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Is Your WordPress Site Ready for Google’s Mobile Algorithm?
April 21, 2015 has come and gone – and with it Google’s deadline to ensure that your Web site is mobile-ready. That is, your Web site should display clearly on multiple devices, particularly smartphones and tablets. If it doesn’t, then Google may rank it lower in mobile search results. How to Tell if Your WP Site…
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Make Your WordPress Twenty Ten Theme Responsive
I know, I know…it’s 2014. WordPress.org has stopped updating the Twenty Ten theme. Most WordPress users have moved on to themes Twenty Twelve and higher. However, you may have well-designed child themes based on the old Twenty Ten theme, a fixed-width parent theme that, nonetheless, has a lot to like. It’s solid and easy to…
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How to Design for WordPress
Note: this article pertains to the self-hosted version of WordPress, available with most paid Web hosting and downloadable for free – not the WordPress.com version. By now, you’ve probably heard that WordPress runs about one-fifth of the world’s Web sites. You may even be familiar with how easy a WordPress-powered site is to manage. But…
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Automatic Updater Plugin for Self-Hosted WordPress Sites
Keeping your WordPress site’s backend (plugins, WordPress version, and themes) up to date can be a hassle, especially if you maintain numerous WordPress sites. For years, I wondered why WP doesn’t provide a dashboard option for automatic updating, configurable by update type (i.e., checkboxes for themes, plugins, and WordPress core software). As it turns out,…
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Curing the WordPress “White Screen of Death”
In a nutshell: try editing “functions.php”, in your active theme’s folder, to remove empty spaces from the bottom of the document. It worked for me. Allow me to share my experience with the infamous “WordPress White Screen of Death”. In four solid years of working with WordPress, I had somehow been fortunate enough never to…
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Five Reasons to Build Your Web Site in WordPress
You’ve probably heard a lot of buzz about WordPress. Many high-profile Web sites published with it (see www.adele.com for a recent example). But what is WordPress – and why should you use it to build your Web site? WordPress is a publishing platform that’s easily installed on most Web servers. If you buy hosting through…