December 2010

During 2010 I found a few sites and tools that brought joy to my online-life. Here’s a run down: Without doubt, my favourite discovery was the shopping cart application, Ecwid. This is a hosted shopping cart application which you can integrate with WordPress, Facebook, Blogger, MySpace and 14 other platforms. Plus your hand-built static HTML [...]

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I’m currently working with a client on the second version of an eCommerce site. The first version had a clean, attractive design, but it suffered from a slow load time and numerous little glitches. And sales have been extremely disappointing. A large part of the reason for the poor performance of the site is the [...]

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Interesting question on Twitter today: “Can someone clue me in to backing up my files on WordPress” As the hackers get better and more numerous, it only makes sense to have full backups of your WordPress sites. Once your site has been compromised it will quickly be removed from the search engines’ indices and your [...]

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My opt-in list has never grown all that quickly. For most of the time I’ve had an opt-in form on my site I’ve been getting up to 6 a day, or thereabouts. No more than that. And my list was not all that responsive either. There are lots of factors that contribute to this, including [...]

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Setting up Teasers is one of the functions in Thesis that I always have trouble remembering – maybe because you need to select options in both Thesis and WordPress to achieve this. Anyway, you have some flexibility in how you configure your Teasers layout: You can have a front page which is all Teasers (as [...]

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I’ve finally lost patience with Facebook and removed the badges from my sites. I wrote back here about some intermittent problems I started to experience with the Facebook Business Page that I set up for this site. Despite 3 trouble tickets, all of which went unanswered (except for auto-generated responses), not only were those problems [...]

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Update: If you’re looking for the step-by-step process for migrating an HTML site to WordPress you can find it here. Original article starts here: Just recently I’ve seen a few questions in a couple of the forums asking about moving an existing HTML static website to WordPress. As big a fan as I am of [...]

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