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 simply refuses to load in a web browser.

If you’re new to WordPress it can be quite frightening the first time you see the dreaded “white screen of death” – the stark, solid white error page that WordPress displays when it encounters what it deems to be a catastrophic error.  [Read more…]

If you have a blog that runs on WordPress you probably already know that plugins make it easy to add new features and capabilities to your blog.

But with thousands of WordPress plugins to choose from, how do you know which ones you really need?

Well, I’m going to try to shed some light on which plugins you need to install on your blog, and which ones you should avoid.

First, let me explain which plugins you need to avoid, because that’s the really easy part…  [Read more…]