Tech Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
Question from Freida: I have a simple question about setting up a blog with WordPress.
If you could only use ONE plugin on your blog for some reason, which plugin would that be?
There are thousands of WordPress plugins out there and I don’t even know where to start in choosing the ones I need to install on my blog.
Thanks in advance for your answer, Rick.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Amber L.: I do a lot of copying and pasting when I’m writing posts for my lifestyle blog.
Something that always irritates me is having to paste everything into Notepad to get rid of the formatting and then copy the “clean” text and paste it into the blog post I’m working on.
I checked Google and found a browser extension called Copy Plain Text that allows you to copy text and paste it without the formatting.
My question is, do you think it’s safe to use this extension?
I’m asking because lots of extensions are dangerous and I don’t want to mess up my work computer.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Brandie G.: I recently started embedding Youtube videos in some of my blog posts and I have a question about it.
Sometimes I want a video to start playing at a specific place instead of at the beginning.
Is there a way to make that happen? I know if there is you’ll be able to tell me.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
There’s a strong consensus among those in the blogging world that WordPress is hands-down the best blogging platform out there.
It’s ease of use, amazing flexibility and natural friendliness towards search engines makes using WordPress a true no-brainer in my opinion.
But that being said, it’s extremely easy to build a WordPress site that’s cumbersome to use, irritatingly slow to load and inherently insecure if one just throws a bunch of “pieces” together to create their blog.
And as you might imagine a slow loading and insecure blog tends to drive away visitors in droves, keep your pages from ranking well in the search engines and make your blog susceptible to hackers.
On the other hand, it’s actually pretty easy to build and maintain a WordPress blog that loads very quickly and is (more or less) immune to hacking attacks if you know how to go about it. Here are a few tips that can help… [Read more…]
In my opinion, WordPress is the most powerful blogging platform out there. And truth be told, it’s also one of the easiest to use.
There are times however when something goes wrong and your blog stops working.
If you’re new to WordPress it can be quite frightening the first time you see the “white screen of death” – the stark, solid white error page that WordPress displays when it encounters what it deems to be a catastrophic error.
I know how easy it is to panic when your blog won’t load, and that dreadful feeling is even more intense when you can’t even log into your WordPress Dashboard.
There are a number of things to check when troubleshooting “white screen” issues, but the first thing I always do when I don’t have a clue what’s causing an issue is to deactivate all the plugins at once to see if the problem goes away. [Read more…]
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