So by now you’ve gotten you domain and your hosting account and you’ve updated your name servers. Great work! Now you’re ready to get WordPress installed. To do this, we’re going to use the quick install in your hosting control panel. This makes it super simple, you...
So now you’ve registered your domain and you’re wondering if you’re ready to post on your blog? No, almost but not quite. After you register your domain name, you need website hosting, that’s the next step. So what is website hosting? Hosting is the account you get...
So what about domain names? We’ve already talk about how many authors use their full name as their domain name. Others use the name of their blog and some are using the name of their company. All three are good choices. The main thing is to choose something you plan...
The steps you’ll take to set up your site will leave you with a lots of bits and pieces that need to be organized. There will be links, logins and passwords and other things you’ll need to keep track of and have available as you move through the steps of setting up...
First of all, welcome! This is the first post in the getting started series. You can sign up here to know more about the other posts in this series, as they get added. Some of you may already be past this point - but we are starting at the very, very beginning of what...
Now that Google said they would be using whether or not a site was secure and encrypted as a ranking factor, you may have been thinking about switching your site to use HTTPS. It's a "very lightweight signal" however, it seems that it's one they intend to keep around...
While working on speeding up your WordPress site, CSS will be one of the areas you'll see reported as a problem. Most WordPress themes have at least some duplicate or repetitive or otherwise unused styles. This isn't necessarily bad, but can be a worry when you're...
There are nearly as many plugins as there are websites. Okay, that might be a bit of an exaggeration, however, there are a lot of plugins available for WordPress. You’ll find that plugins are similar to themes, there are free plugins and premium/paid plugins. Plugin...
Disaster! Something’s gone wrong with your site. Maybe you’ve been hacked. Maybe your site is serving up errors or something happened to corrupt the database. Maybe an update didn’t complete successfully. The bottom line: your site is broken. Did you know backups are...