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As popular as it is WordPress still has it’s quirks. With all the one click installs and ready made themes when you need to do something more technical it can be scary. There is a huge amount of help available from the likes of WP-Beginner to WordPress.tv, but when things go wrong it can be [...]
Continue Reading …This is the third and final part in the series on “How to Publish Your Worpdress Blog Post from Anywhere”, see part 1 & 2 if you missed them. In part 3, I take you through how to set up your WordPress blog so you can post by email. Using “Markdown” as described in the [...]
Continue Reading …In the first part of How to Publish Your Worpdress Blog Post from Anywhere we covered using Markdown to enable you write blog posts quickly without having to rework them for formatting. Using Markdown will certainly sped up your ability to post articles on your blog but WordPress, by default, cannot interpret Markdown. Therefore we [...]
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When writing a blog post your concentration should always be on the content and quality of what you are producing. You will be writing the post to attract new customers, excite your readers or express your expertise in a particular field. Taking time formatting your post will detract from achieving your goals. In this three [...]
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This week saw the launch of our new look website at work Adnams.co.uk. A proud moment for me as it was the culmination of 6 months of work involving many different people within the company. It was also based on a vision of allowing customers to easily move from one sector of the business to [...]
Continue Reading …In my next video guide to the non-technical way of setting up a WordPress blog I introduce you to installing WordPress plugins. The three I have chosen for this demonstration enable you to install Google Analytics, create Google XML site maps and further improve the Search Engine Optimisation of your blog. Any questions please feel [...]
Continue Reading …WordPress just gets better with every release and the recent major update, version 2.9 is no exception. This release now includes a solution for what has been for me one of the most trying parts of a content management system, image editing. No matter how simple a web site is to update, for those with [...]
Continue Reading …For those of you that know me you will know that I won’t hesitate to recommend WordPress to any business looking to build a new website. It’s design flexibility through Themes, built-in content management and multitude of plugins, not to mention the fact it’s free, should put it high on the list for consideration. With [...]
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