Archive for WordPress Tips
Free Webinar – Productivity Tips for Working Faster on Your Website (and in Your Life!)
Posted by: | CommentsHaving a website and a business these days means you are on the computer a lot. And it’s important to make the most of the hours you have in a day. Join Christina Hills on this Free Webinar to show you how to use some simple and quick ways to make your life more productive, so you can get things done faster!
This Call will be a pre-training for the next Website Creation Workshop!
Date: Wednesday January 18th, 2012
Time: 6:00pm Eastern / 3:00pm Pacific
Duration: 60 minutes
Topic: Productivity Tips for Working Faster Online
- How to Work Faster when Building WordPress Websites
- How to Search more effectively
- Why you want to use multiple browsers
- Understanding the difference between WordPress Pages and Post (and when to use either)
- Plus answer your questions live on the call !
To Join this Webinar , enter your information below to get taken to the webinar page.
This will get you on the correct email list for the Webinar and other Free Trainings
What do You Want to Know about Using WordPress as Your Website?
Posted by: | CommentsWordPress has become the dominant platform for building a website. And everyone needs a website.
But what do you need?
I’m gearing up for the next Website Creation Workshop and I want to know:
What is your biggest question about using WordPress as Your Website?
And what features do you want your website to have?
Click Here to Give me Your Feedback!
Get Organized with Google Calendar (Webinar)
Posted by: | CommentsTomorrow, December 29th at 12pm Eastern, I am doing a special webinar on using Google Calendar for getting your 2012 off to a great start!
You can use Google Calendar for your business and your personal life, and it’s easy to see and plan out your year!
See the short video below
The cost to attend is only $67, and everyone who signs up for my special webinar training, will get the video replay and the transcripts of the call afterwards.
Click Button Below to Register for this Special Webinar Training
New Version of WordPres 3.3 Named “Sonny”
Posted by: | CommentsThe self hosted WordPress.org software came out with a new update: WordPress 3.3 dedicated to the great Jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt. (all major releases get a name from a famous Jazz musician). Here is a new video from the WordPress.org folks with some highlights of this new version of WordPress:
And here is a short description of the changes from the WordPress.org blog
“Experienced users will appreciate the new drag-and-drop uploader, hover menus for the navigation, the new toolbar, improved co-editing support, and the new Tumblr importer. We’ve also been thinking a ton about what the WordPress experience is like for people completely new to the software. Version 3.3 has significant improvements there with pointer tips for new features included in each update, a friendly welcome message for first-time users, and revamped help tabs throughout the interface. Finally we’ve improved the dashboard experience on the iPad and other tablets with better touch support.”
Here are the steps I go through when I want to update my WordPress website to the latest version:
1) First, I backup my WordPress Website with The Backup Plugin (http://www.thebackupplugin.com my link for Backup Buddy)
This is the simplest, easiest way to backup your WordPress websites, because it’ backs everything up ! and makes it easy to restore or copy your site to another location.
2) Second, I update my WordPress Software
3) Third, I check to see if any plugins can be updated and if they compatible with the latest version of WordPress. If so I update those.
4) Fourth, I click around my site in the admin to check out the new features, and then I click around on the outside of my site.
It’s also very important to have a good hosting company that knows how to handle WordPress, with people who understand how WordPress Works.
I have found Blue Host (http://www.bluehostnow.com my link) to be the best at this! They know a lot about WordPress, and can explain things to you very well on the phone.
I’ll be teaching this new version of WordPress in my next Website Creation Workshop Coaching Program coming out in early 2012!
Watch your emails in January, 2012!
Where do you Install WordPress?
Posted by: | CommentsWhen I teach the Website Creation Workshop, I often get the question: “Where do I install WordPress?”
and the answer is: “Wherever you want it!”
You see, you can install WordPress at the root of your domain name, as in www.thebestthemes.com, or you can install it in a folder as in www.WebsiteCreationWorkshop.com/blog
Here is a YouTube video I did that explains this:
If you already have a website, and you want to add a blog to it, you can put it in a folder on your hosting company servers as /blog or /articles or /news or whatever you want to call it.
Or if you want you can install the WordPress site at the root of your domain, and that is the site.
(I prefer this method, since the URL links are shorter)
(Hey, if any of this seems too techy, just put your question about it in the box below)
When WordPress Updates to the Newest Version
Posted by: | CommentsA new version of the WordPress software came out last week: WordPress 3.2 dedicated to the Jazz pianist George Gershwin. (all major releases get a name from a famous Jazz composer). Here is a video from the WordPress.org folks with some of the highlights of the new release:
Here is what I do when I want to update to the latest version of WordPress:
1) I backup my WordPress Website with The Backup Plugin (http://www.thebackupplugin.com my link for Backup Buddy)
This is the fastest, easiest way to backup your WordPress sites, because it’ backs up everything! and makes it easy to restore,l or move your site to another location.
2) I update my WordPress Software
3) I check to see if any plugins can be updated. i.e. are they compatible with the latest version. If so I update those.
4) I click around my site in the admin to check out the new features, and then I click around on the outside of my site.
It’s important to have a good hosting company that knows how to handle WordPress, and has customer support who understand what you are doing. I have found Blue Host (http://www.bluehostnow.com my link) to be the best at this! They know a lot about WordPress, and can explain things to you on the phone.
You’ll notice that WordPress tends to come out with major releases in the summer. Good time to play around with it!
Real People and Their Membership Sites
Posted by: | CommentsIf you are interested in creating a membership site, WordPress is an excellent platform to do that. Every time I teach the Website Creation Workshop, I use WordPress to create my membership site. The tool that I use is Wishlist Member. This is a plugin that you add to WordPress to turn your website into a membership site.
Now the guys at Wishlist have put together a video series to show you how you can create membership sites.
From big businesses to everyday people, you can create a membership site around your passion, and you can create a community doing it.
Go here to enter your email and to see those videos
What kind of membership site are you creating (or do you want to create?)
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