Hey, guess what? The best WordPress gallery plug-in out there is not even a plugin! For years, managing collections of images in a WordPress blog post required a plug-in. NextGen was one of the most popular plug-ins around but there was no shortage of alternatives. I’m not a big fan of using Plugins. Sure, they [...]
I am always looking for new and different projects. I get bored fairly quickly, so repeating the same kind of work for a long time just isn’t for me. I am fortunate to have a steady stream of revenue by now, allowing me to spend time learning new skills. You know, I think I probably [...]
This is a topic I’ve been meaning to write about for a while now – bloggers that seem to blog about nothing else but blogging. So, yes, you have a few big profitable blogs out there that do just that. Then you have a gazillion small blogs, often started as the first blog by that [...]
Approximately six weeks ago I went ahead and bought Thesis. I posted about my first impressions here. Today, I finally went ahead and installed Thesis on this blog as well, so seems like a good time for adding my “second” impressions. First, since I’m already a Shareasale affiliate, I went ahead and signed up as [...]
I started doing “this” back in 1997. “This” means creating websites, promoting them and monetizing on the traffic (as opposed to creating websites for other people’s business need). It’s a pretty common business model for most of us. The Age of Webmasters Back then, we were called webmasters. As a webmaster, you were expected to [...]
I finally gave in to peer pressure and bought the Thesis theme for my blogs. All the cool blogs seem to be running on Thesis nowadays, so I figured it’s worth a shot. Total disclosure moment: I honestly am not that enthusiastic about it on the get-go. There is a lot of hype on the [...]
I’ve never actually tried to add a file for people to download on any of my WordPress blogs. Until today, that is. I guess there’s always a first time? I had a cat-themed template designed and I wanted to share it with site visitors. Now, with HTML, it’s fairly simple. I have done that before. [...]
This post is for people who are new to WordPress and are not webmasters or computer geeks. If you have a WordPress blog that your host, or maybe a friend, installed for you and you’re looking into customizing it, read on. Steve and Aviva, this one is for you! I will start with a general [...]