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Manual backups on your hosting account

adminTR — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:13:26 +0000

Whenever I create a WordPress site for clients, I always include an automated backup which gets emailed to the client each week. However, this is only one portion of your website – the content backup – i.e. the posts and pages that have been created on your website. You also need to

Site Loading Speed IS Now a Google Ranking Factor

adminTR — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:49:25 +0000

At the end of last week (April 9th) Google announced that they will officially start including an assessment of the speed of your website as part of their ranking of a website. (For in-depth detail read more on the Google Webmaster Central blog.) Load speed will not initially have a big impact, as is shown [...]

Creating & editing Paypal buttons

adminTR — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:35:22 +0000

Here are 3 short Video tutorials on creating a PayPal button, adding it to your WordPress website, and how to edit a button you’ve already created.

Autoresponder: custom fields & what to do with them

adminTR — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:01:26 +0000

When you create an optin box (or sign-up form) on your website, you may wish to get your subscribers to fill in one or more extra fields. The two standard fields are Name and Email, but sometimes you may need a phone number, or some other contact information, or a question-type field. This next video [...]

Applying for a Paypal account

adminTR — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:45:46 +0000

Some useful info for you all: if you don’t have a Paypal account, here are simple instructions on applying for a free account. Watch the video here

Update: new “All In On SEO Pack” video

adminTR — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:38:02 +0000

Hi The “All In One SEO Pack” has changed a lot in recent releases, and it has a couple of very handy extra fields that you can “load” with keywords. I’ve made a new video which briefly describes the fields that have always been there, and then demonstrates the 2 new fields and how [...]

Putting links in posts or pages

adminTR — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:15:27 +0000

Here is a quick reminder of how you can add links to other websites, files etc. within a page or blog post on your own site. Click here to view the video

Copying text from MS Word to WordPress

adminTR — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:43:34 +0000

Sometimes, when you copy text from MS Word (or an equivalent editor) straight into WordPress, you can get some weird results when you view the saved post on your website, even if it looks OK when you’re editing it in WordPress. This is often due to the “behind the scenes” formatting from the fancier editors, [...]

The Law and your website

adminTR — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:13:40 +0000

Did you know that if you sell anything on your website, that you are legally required to have a

Editing Widgets in WordPress

adminTR — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:59:01 +0000

If you want to change the format of your sidebar, most themes will allow you to update the sidebar using “widgets. Here is a 5-minute video explaining how to do that