Here’s a question from a client:

“I’d like to keep my “welcome” post at the top of the blog page, so I changed its date. Is there a more techie way of doing this so I don’t have to keep editing it?”

The short answer is “Yes”.

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Windows Live Writer is a user-friendly interface that allows you to publish blog posts to a large number of blogs, Wordpress as well as other blogs. It has an easier Visual editor to use than Wordpress itself, which is one of the main advantage.

In the videos below, I explain how to get Windows Live Read the rest of this entry

If you want to add in audio files (such as MP3) or video files (such as MP4 or wmv), Wordpress makes it very simple to do.

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If you want to make changes to your profile information, such as resetting your password or your display name, you can log in and edit your profile.

For users with more permissions (i.e. administrators) you can change a lot more detail, and change other users, but for the purposes of this video, we’ll just do simple changes to a Subscriber user.

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The HopAd Plugin makes it extremely easy to create ads with your ClickBank ID, for use in your Wordpress website. The simple management interface of the plugin means it’s really easy to design Clickbank ads to match your theme and drop them into posts, pages or the sidebar(s). Read the rest of this entry

Occasionally when you log in to your Admin panel (yourwebsite.com/wp-admin) as an administrator, you may see that there are Spam comments that have been submitted to your website.

Akismet protects your Wordpress site from such comments so these dodgy comments never reach your pages; this plugin is installed on ALL my clients sites as a matter of course. Read the rest of this entry