This is the beginning of a series in how to go from Photoshop to WordPress. It will answer questions like: How do I bring a design element from Photoshop to WordPress? How do I set the background color of my WordPress website to match the color I used in Photoshop? How do I make my […]
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Image from diTii on flickr It’s important to understand how WordPress handles the robots.txt file. If you are using WordPress, the robots.txt file is handled virtually, meaning an actual robots.txt file doesn’t reside in your root directory. Yet, if you go to http//www.yourdomain.com/robots.txt, you will see a robots.txt file. Default Robots.txt The default WordPress
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I recommend the BackWPup plugin for backing up your WordPress website. I’ve tried several different plugins over the years. BackWPup provides the functionality I need do a complete backup and to restore successfully. My goal in this post is to explain why I recommend the BackWPup plugin for backing up a WordPress website. Just the
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2013 Theme This new one-column theme is great for media-rich content. It puts the focus on content and includes a flexible layout that is responsive on any size of device. The default location of widgets has changed. The Main Widget Area now defaults to the footer area. The Secondary Widget Area
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The best new WordPress plugins for 2013 range from contact forms to drop boxes to author bios and more. To make this Top 10 New Plugin list, each of these plugins had to be in at least two other top 10 lists from other WordPress bloggers* and each plugin needed to be intuitive and easy
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CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. Styles within CSS define how to display html elements, as well as other elements of a webpage. In this basics overview, we will focus on defining styles for html elements. CSS provides consistency across an entire website. Use CSS to define how you want all your heading to bee
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Knowing HTML has huge advantages. Even if you use WordPress or some other website development package, you’ll be able to do HTML tweaks that seem to be necessary every now and then. In this post, let’s look at some of the basic HTML tags that will help you in those tight spots. We’ll first look
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Photo by mcojah on Flickr Where does one begin when it comes to WordPress plugins? Over the years, I’ve come up with a set of standard plugins I install on most WordPress websites. I’d love to hear yours, too! Let me know your favorite plugins in the comments below. Anti-Spam Plugin I use Akismet. It
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This post is a continuation of the series “You Need More Than a Website“. You have your website, but as we mentioned last week, your website needs to be more than just existing, it needs to be performing. One of the ways to make your site a performing site is to regularly update your site.
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