Tutorial: How to install WordPress
08
Jan

Tutorial: How to install WordPress

Written by Dusty. Posted in Resources, Tutorials with 33 Comments

WordPress is one of the simplest, fastest and easiest tools for blogging. It is open source software developed originally by a god, I mean guy named Matt Mullenweg. With the advent of WordPress, Mullenweg single-handedly changed the face of the web. Ok, so he didn’t do it alone, he had lots of talented coders working [...]

Mini-tutorial: How to add noindex to category pages
22
Dec

Mini-tutorial: How to add noindex to category pages

Written by Dusty. Posted in Plugins, Resources with 11 Comments

This question was asked in the WordPress forum here.  Since nobody had answered Michael at press time, I thought it might be helpful to find the answer and publish it here. Solution: Option 1) Use robots.txt to prohibit search engines form indexing a page.  Simply add this to your robots.txt file.  If you don’t have [...]

Top 10 list of lists
18
Dec

Top 10 list of lists

Written by Dusty. Posted in Lists, Resources with 2 Comments

Have you noticed the dramatic increase in “list” posts?  They often have title like “10 best free magazine style WordPress themes” and “10 best social media plugins”.  We, too, enjoy a list here and there.  We thought it would be fun (and funny) to come up with our own top 10 list of  lists. 10 [...]

Moving your WordPress site in 2 easy steps
17
Dec

Moving your WordPress site in 2 easy steps

Written by Dusty. Posted in Resources with 2 Comments

This tutorial assumes you know how to install a self-hosted WordPress site.  Let’s say you’ve got a wordpress powered blog that you’d like to transfer.  Here’s how to do it in just a couple quick steps: Log into the dashboard of the old site and under “tools” click “export”.  WordPress will export all of the [...]

20 super helpful WordPress template tags
11
Dec

20 super helpful WordPress template tags

Written by Dusty. Posted in Lists, Resources, Themes with 6 Comments

For anyone developing WordPress templates, these tags are the most commonly used and helpful to have handy. Many of these tags include parameter options which can be found in the WordPress Codex or this helpful tool. <?php the_author_nickname(); ?> Insert the author’s nickname. <?php the_category(‘parents=multiple’); ?> Insert the category of a post. <?php comments_number(‘No Comments’, ’one’, ’more’, ’number’); ?> Insert the number of [...]

8 truly amazing premium WordPress theme creators
08
Dec

8 truly amazing premium WordPress theme creators

Written by Dusty. Posted in Lists, Resources, Themes with 3 Comments

These theme creators stand above the rest in terms of aesthetics, web standards, functionality and creativity.  There are over 19,000,000 results for “premium wordpress themes” on Google.  Wouldn’t it be nice to rely on a handful of providers?  In no particular order, here are some of our favorites: Woo Themes PremiumWP Studio Press Theme Forest [...]

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