Archive: WordPress Tips

• Nov 06, 2011

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  My WordPress Sites Got Hacked + What I Learned From It

  I thought you might want to know what I learned from that experience so that you can avoid it yourself because it really was a huge waste of time at the most inconvenient of times for me. So what did I learn? Backup, Backup, Backup! Keep WordPress Updated at ALL...
  
  

• Feb 17, 2011

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  Taking Action Update Feb 18, 2011

  Every Friday, I am supposed to take a moment to recap what I have accomplished over the last week so that I can look back and see how far I have actually come since beginning this blogging business. These weekly updates are meant to help me stay accountable. Which is probably why, I haven't been...
  
  

• Feb 15, 2011

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  6 Simple Steps to Maximize Your Subscriber Counts

  Congratulations! You’ve got a blog, and you’ve got content. Now you just need readers. You don’t just want one-timers; ideally you’d like loyal followers. Followers aren’t super-difficult to get, but there’s one thing you absolutely need…..a way for followers to actually follow...
  
  

• Jan 24, 2011

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  are your passwords dangerous?

  Whenever I’m prompted to create an account on a website, I have to choose a password and my first thought is to create something that is easy to remember. If you’re like me, you try and re-use the same password over and over until you get to a website that requires additional characters or numbers...
  
  

• Jan 05, 2011

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  how not to lose your WordPress data

  I have been helping a few friends of mine to get their self-hosted WordPress sites set up lately and there have been a few problems. One friend was using the default Twenty Ten theme which we customized by changing the CSS to alter colors and fonts. We also edited her copyright information in her footer...
  
  

• Dec 17, 2010

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  action steps update dec 17, 2010

  These weekly updates help me stay accountable and let’s you see the progress I make as I complete actions towards my goals. installed a WordPress backup plugin and a Retweet/Share/Like plugin as suggested by Everett Bogue created a favicon (that’s the little cat you see to the left of the URL up there) re-wrote my...
  
  

• Dec 12, 2010

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  action steps update dec 12 2010

  Another week on a roll! It’s such an awesome feeling when you’re working on something you love to do! It’s been a really long time since I’ve had the feeling of wanting to work on my blogs over going out. Now if only I could get this pesky little thing called “a job” out of...
  
  

• Dec 03, 2010

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  action steps update dec 3 2010

  I thought that a good resource for my readers would be a weekly (or so) status update on my action-steps, that way one day, when I have a couple hundred thousand followers new visitors will be able to go back to the beginning and watch the steps that I have taken to reach my goals...
  
  

• Nov 29, 2010

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  what was my passion again? oh yeah!

  It’s weird, after spending a lot of time disliking my job so much, I was beginning to think that I just wasn’t passionate about web design anymore. I used to love being a web designer, I even loved telling people I was a web designer. You see, the problem with my current job is that...