WordPress

  • The Real Cost of Free

    “I’m on a tight budget.” That’s what I hear from most new site owner wannabes. There is no other industry where you can open a legitimate business with no money and no education on how to run it. But too many site owners fall prey to buying into the hype of doing just that. They expect everything to be cheap or free and somehow be successful on sweat equity alone, while grabbing every shiny new thing some guru said works. Free is not free for long. You’ll pay for it dearly, to the tune of thousands of dollars. Let me show you exactly what I mean with real-world examples.

  • Get Another Layer of Backup Security with Server Rewind

    Have you every trashed a page or post on your site and then wanted it back? Or, has a plugin suddenly goofed up your database? It’s not easy, if at all possible, to restore such things from most backups. Well, unless you have Server Rewind. It’s exclusively available on A2 Hosting. And it’s free. Yep, free. Let me tell you why I love this feature and how I use it for my sites and those of my clients.

  • How to Delete Local Backup Files in BackupBuddy

    It’s good to do a manual backup on your site before you upgrade. But, those files are usually stored locally on your hosting space. If you use BackupBuddy and do a complete backup, you’re also backing up your backup files. Those could really start piling up and slowing everything down.

    Plus, you’re paying for hosting space, so you don’t want to waste it on too many backup files. And, if you ever need to migrate your site, you’ll want to cut down on them before that too.

    In this quick video, I’ll show you how to delete locally stored files of your backup that you created with BackupBuddy. You’ll see easy ways to get rid of the problem and keep it from happening again so your site runs fast and smooth.

  • Byline Bug in Genesis 2.0

    Links for the byline that display below your post have two issues on Genesis themes. One is a security risk and the other is bug that started when Genesis 2.0 was released. The latter one will affect anyone who has updated to the Genesis 2.0 framework, but still has their original theme that has not been updated for the new schema markup yet. In this quick video, I’ll show you both issues and how they affect your site security and Google authorship. Plus, I’ll show you a super fix that you just may want to keep, even after they fix the bug.

  • WordPress 3.6 is Live

    WordPress version 3.6 has finally launched! It’s named Oscar and here’s a short video from the developers on what’s in store with the new features. Plus, here are my tips to help you safely make the transition. Backup First Before you make any major change to your site, like updating WordPress or plugins, do a…

  • HTML5 and Genesis 2.0 – Get the SEO Edge

    When WordPress 3.6 rolls out, it will include HTML5 markup code in the core. Right behind that release will be the Genesis 2.0 premium framework to take advantage of the new features. Since it’s not likely that you own a theme that can make use of HTML5, and since all browsers don’t support it yet, you may be wondering why you’d want to go to the trouble of updating your theme. In a word, microdata, that’s why. Microdata talks to other machines, like search engines, and tells them more about the content being indexed. In other words, microdata is candy for Google and your content will be surrounded by it. When you help Google, it helps you. See how adoption of HTML5 will give your site an SEO leg up in your niche and put you ahead of your competition and seen in SERPs.