The economy has changed, fundamentally and forever. The consumer driven economy that grew through the early 2000′s came crashing down in 2008. It was a debt-fuelled growth and, as always happens, the chickens eventually came home to roost. Since 2008 a lot of us have felt a lot of pain. Consumer spending has been slashed [...]
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Since WordPress 3.3 was released last week I’ve seen an unusually high number of people asking why they should upgrade. The answer is simple, and threefold: To maintain or improve the security of your site To improve the performance of your site To improve the usability of your site Improve site security Hackers target older [...]
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This video is for people new to WordPress and goes through the steps to write and publish your first post. Writing and publishing pages is the same except for two things: You start on the ‘Add New Page’ screen (not the Add New Post screen) You don’t assign categories and tags Once you’ve written your [...]
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The higher the number of page-views-per-visit, the more engaged your readers are. And the more engaged they are the more easily you’ll be able to sell stuff from your site. But you know that already. The question is: how can you increase the number of page-views-per-visit? Here’s what I did recently: A while ago I [...]
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This video is designed for people new to both WordPress and to working online. It covers the basic SEO details that you should fill in for each new WordPress post and page you write, in order to get more search engine traffic. I use the Thesis theme, so the screenshots are Thesis screens, but the [...]
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I often see questions asking how to convert an HTML website to WordPress and, back here, I covered some of the things you need to think about before doing so. Anyway, I recently converted an old HTML site to WordPress so I figured I’d set out the step-by-step process – so here it is: Overview [...]
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