There has been some confusion about blogging (or its fancier name “content marketing”) in recent years. The web is littered with daily articles and videos tips, advice and even high-priced courses and personal coaching on the subject of blogging. Courses by guru bloggers showing how they make money blogging are being churned out all the time. Yet a lot of ...

Updating the Theme for Your Site Let’s say, that the company that created your theme has an update — they’ve added features, they’ve removed features, and they’ve updated it, and you want to have the latest version of that theme. Well, here’s how to take care of that.

Updating Plugins for Your Site Staying on top of plugin updates is very important in maintain the health and security of your site, as is deleting unused or no longer needed plugins.

Adding a Twitter Follow Box to Your Sidebar Two different methods in this video for adding a Twitter Follow box to your site. Use the one you like best. See the Facebook version of this video here:

Restoring a Site from a Backup In this video, we take the backup created in the backup video with the duplicator plugin, and use it to restore a site.

Changing Your Permalinks You may know already that I’m not big on SEO, but I get this question often enough that I thought I should include the answer here for the community. If you want to make your URLs for your posts or your pages more search engine-friendly, then what you need to do is simply tweak the Permalink settings ...

Installing Google Analytics to Your Site Watch this video to learn how to add Google Analytics to your website so that you can track what is going on in your website, how many visitors you have, where they come from and a whole lot more.

Adding a Facebook Like Box to Your Sidebar Ever wanted to learn how to add a Facebook Like box to your WordPress sidebar or even to a WordPress page or post? It’s easier than you think; watch the video. See the Twitter version of this video here:

Customizing Your Theme Another question I get frequently is how to make changes in a theme. Some changes are easy, as demonstrated in this video. But other changes may require the help of a professional. If you have questions on customizing your site, please leave a comment below.

Changing Your Home Page Something I get asked frequently is how to change the home page of a WordPress to a regular page instead of a list of blog posts. This video shows how to set the home page so that the first thing you see is a specific page chosen by you.