Tag "WordPress"
4 Christmas WordPress Themes to Put Your Readers in the Holiday Spirit
WordPress, WordPress Themes It’s that time of year again: Christmas is just around the corner and it will be here before you know it! To some blog owners, changing the theme is a full day project that is often more of a chore. If you’ve added a lot of customizations to your theme, it’s definitely a pain to switch to a new theme just for a month. Yet, there are some who love to change their themes with the seasons and holidays. So to get the month started, ...
Continue readingThe Importance Of Scheduling Your Blog Posts
Blogging One of the most important responsibilities of running a popular blog such as Blogging Tips is scheduling posts. This is particularly true for blogs in which the blog owner doesn’t write every day themselves. That is, they just need to organise the articles written by staff and guest posters. Scheduling is just as important for blog owners who write the majority of their content (this is perhaps less true if your posting frequency is ...
Continue readingWordPress 3.1 “Reinhardt” Released, New Feautres Added
WordPress, WordPress Coding & Design For WordPress users all over the world, today has been a pretty busy day as yesterday saw the release of the much-anticipated WordPress 3.1 of the popular blogging platform. Codenamed “Reinhardt” after the famous jazz musician Django Reinhardt, the new version not only adds a slew of new features to WordPress but also improves security and usability. But unlike security updates, which should always be applied as soon as practical, ...
Continue readingSecurity Update: WordPress and Google Both Launch Improvements
Blogging News, WordPress It’s been a busy week for security buffs as both WordPress and Google Accounts are both receiving major security improvements that their users should definitely scoop up as quickly as possible. For WordPress users, they need to see about upgrading their installation to version 3.0.5, which fixes several security bugs that are most dangerous to those who have authors with limited permissions on their blog. Google, on the other hand, is ...
Continue readingSocrates WordPress Theme for Internet Marketers
Reviews, WordPress Themes When it comes to WordPress themes, you have countless options. You can shop around for all the different free themes out there. You could hire a freelance designer and coder to custom create a new theme for you. Or, you can buy one of the several premium themes that populate the web. One such premium product is Socrates Theme. No, it’s not really meant to be philosophical in any particular way, but this WordPress theme has certainly been ...
Continue readingWordPress 3.0.2 Released – Updated Highly Recommended
WordPress, WordPress Themes If you are a WordPress user, you’ve likely noticed that you’ve been getting update notifications for your site(s) telling you that WordPress 3.0.2 has been released. If you haven’t updated your installation yet, it’s best to get on top of it as soon as possible. Not only is the update only a minor security release, meaning it shouldn’t affect any plugins, themes, or other elements of your site, but it fixes a rare ...
Continue reading6 Blogging Tools I’m Thankful For this Thanksgiving
Software & Programs, WordPress Like most bloggers, I’m very proud at what I’ve been able to do over the years but I also ahve to admit that there is pretty much no way I would have been able to do much of anything without the efforts of others, especially those who make their work freely available for people like us to use. Unless you’re able to build your site management software, code your theme from scratch and create all of the tools you use, you’re standing on ...
Continue readingHow to Fix 5 Common Theme Problems
Design & Coding, WordPress, WordPress Themes As I mentioned last week, as a blogger, you are going to make mistakes and, fortunately, most of them are very minor ones that you can fix and recover from quickly. That being said, one of the more common and embarrassing mistakes involves screwing up your theme. This can be especially frustrating if you aren’t somewhat experienced with HTML and CSS, but can still be a headache no matter how experienced you are. Though there are literally ...
Continue readingSell Premium Job Listings with WPJobBoard
Reviews, WordPress, WordPress Plugins Ask just about any Internet marketer and they’ll tell you that the best kind of income is passive income. The good news is that there are many different kinds of websites you can use to generate this passive income, many of which can largely be run on auto-pilot after you’ve completed the original setup process. One such type of site is a paid job board. Thanks to WPJobBoard, you can quickly and easily convert a WordPress blog into a ...
Continue reading
Comment Form Leads to 404 Page?
WordPress I was having a problem on my Work In My Pajamas blog where people could leave comments, but then they’d be directed to a 404 page. The comments were working okay, but the visitors didn’t know if they were or not, therefore I was getting duplicate comments and messages that my site was “broken”. So when I was trying to figure out the problem, I then noticed the links listed under “Recent Comments” did not work ...
Continue reading