Category Archives: WordPress.

Blogging Tips to Get More Traffic, Subscribers, and Readers

Here is a list of blogging tips, to increase your readership and exposure. Some I need to apply more myself, but here they are:

Redesign Explained

As you can see if you are an old blog visitor, I’ve changed the appearance of things around here. This time, I didn’t create my own theme, I went the classic “buy a premium theme” route, and I’m quite happy with the results. My past experience with my creating my last two themes was very helpful; I learned a lot about the inner workings of WordPress, even though I didn’t create the theme completely from scratch, I went the Sandbox …

I've started a new blog…here's how.

I did it. I bought a nice domain name (did I?), I set up WordPress and a new theme and I’ve setup a new blog for my girlfriend. She’s a behavior therapist that works with autistic children and I thought that the premise of a blog from the perspective of a therapist would be interesting. There is quite an extensive network of autism-related blogs out there, but most are from the perspective of the parents of autistic children. Check out …

Almost switched Web host today…

Let me give you a bit of background on this. About a month ago we started Dumbfiles, which we host on Dreamhost, which has been wonderful to us for over a year. The problem is that we’ve experienced a ton of issues with our service lately and this might hinder Dumbfiles’ growth. So we started looking around for other hosts (which by the way, is awful, all the review sites are paid, if you know of any non-biased review, let …

Posting in WordPress.

[This is my first article for The WordPress Magazine, which isn't up yet, but check the site out once its up!  There are multiple ways of witting posts with WordPress. Some like the plain text-mode, some like the built-in TinyMCE editor, others install plugins (such as WYSIWYG for WordPress or Xinha), and some even use MS Word 2007's blogging features. Lets examine the first method: