How To Migrate Your Locally Developed Wordpress Site To A Live Server
We’ve talked a lot in the past about running local web servers for development purposes or to try out software such as Wordpress without having to pay for hosting, but how do you take it live once you’re ready to launch? The principles remain the same for any CMS or web software.
How to Convert an Email to a RSS Feed & Embed It as a Blog Widget
This week, I had an idea to create a sidebar widget on my website that would let me issue short one-line email updates to a RSS feed. This would let me issue news alerts to my blog readers without the need to actually write an entire post until later - sort of like an embedded Twitter feed of sorts.
10 Creative Tumblr Blogging Ideas For When You Have Writers Block
What's great about Tumblr is that you can reblog posts by other members of the site. This helps keep your own blog fresh with content without you having to always develop it yourself. On the other hand, if you're short on original content ideas, you might consider some of the following creative writing ideas for Tumblr content.
Optimise Your Article Content for SEO & Social Media as You Write
Maybe you have your own blog or maybe you write for someone else's blog. Maybe you're a journalist. Whatever your line of writing, it's likely that at least some of it will be on the Internet. If that's the case, you're probably quite good at writing about your favourite niches. But do you sometimes long to know what it is people are talking about?
How To Install PHPList To Host Your Own Subscriber System
There are a lot of blogs and websites on the Internet that have a subscription list, where you can sign up to receive a newsletter. Maybe you've even considered offering such a subscriber system on your own website, but it seems far too expensive and much too complicated to install on your own server. Enter PHPList, a free solution.
3 Methods To Host Your Wordpress Blog Images On An External Server
One of the biggest burdens of any website are the images. So it's only logical that you can lighten the load of your sites - and make them faster - by hosting the images on a speedier external server. Today, we are going to look at some free alternatives to host your Wordpress blog images on external servers.
Some Advanced Tips For Those Starting Out Building A Tumblr Blog
Tumblr is taking the lead as the fastest growing microblogging site. If you're hopping onto the Tumblr bandwagon—I recommend you do—here are some additional—perhaps advanced—tips you might be interested in after having set up your blog and built a following.
Build Loyal Visitors To Your Website Or Blog With The Help Of PunchTab
No blog will have a meaningful life without any visitors, so getting people to come and read your web writing is essential for your blog to survive. While getting many people to visit your blog is fairly achievable, turning them into loyal visitors is a bit more tricky. Producing great content is one way to achieve that. But you need more than quality content to keep your readers coming back for more.
Top 11 HTML Tags Every Blogger & Website Owner Must Know
The world wide web knows many languages and is coded in several different ones. The one language however, that can be found all over and has been around since the invention of webpages, is the HyperText Markup Language, better known as HTML. In this article I want to show you a few, possibly random, but definitely useful and simple tags for daily use.
How To Create Your Own Basic Wordpress Widgets
Many bloggers will search for the perfect Wordpress widget that will do exactly what they want, but with a little programming experience you may find it's easier to write your custom widget. This week I'd like to show how to do exactly that, and the widget we will be writing is a simple one that picks out a single random post from your site, pulls the featured image, and displays it on the sidebar.
How To Regularly Back Up Your Large MySQL Database with MySQLDumper
As I watch my own Wordpress blog grow in both posts and user comments, I'm starting to eye my growing database with a wary eye. What happens if the server goes down, gets hacked or worse? Shouldn't I be prepared for such a situation with a constant, ready backup of all posts and comments? I finally came across a brilliant free MySQL backup utility called MySQLDumper.
3 Easy Methods To Live Blog Events
Whether you're attending a conference, taking part in an event, or even watching a football match, there are various ways you can share your comments, thoughts, images and much more. While Twitter has become immensely popular for live tweeting just about everything you could imagine, if you're looking for something a little bit more robust, there are three free services that have been built specifically for this purpose.
Protect & Speed Up Your Website For Free with CloudFlare
CloudFlare is an intriguing start-up from the creators of Project Honey Pot that claims to protect your website from spammers, bots and other evil web monsters - as well as speed up your site somewhat by caching certain page requests. It's free, setup is relatively painless, and who can say no to free security protection?
2 New Cool Wordpress Plugins & Understanding The Wordpress Theme Structure
This week I'll be a taking a look at a superior alternative to the often praised All-In-One SEO; a plugin that gives you the power of a Wordpress publishing system but allows you to output static HTML files for hosts that don't support PHP; as well as showing you how to make sense of some of the template files contained in your theme directory.
Make Your Wordpress Blog iPad Friendly with Onswipe
More and more people who access the Internet are doing so from an iPad or another tablet. So if you have an online presence, it would be a good idea to adjust the interface of your site to be tablet friendly. Automattic has realized this and have added a feature that will optimize its 18 million blogs for tablet viewing.
5 Tips To Get Your Blog Updates Published On Google News
One day when I was browsing news stories, I noticed that one particular story was published not by CNN, Associated Press or the Washington Post, but instead by a small time blogger who had landed a pretty cool exclusive story. Front page Google News. For a moment I thought about the traffic that must have offered her site. So I set out to learn exactly what it takes to become an authorized Google News publisher.
3 Ways The W3 Total Cache Plugin Can Speed Up Your Wordpress Blog
Self-hosted WordPress is a fantastic system, no doubt about it. But it can become a little bloated resulting in a slow load time.