All posts tagged wordpress

How To Transfer A WordPress Site To A New Host Without Downtime

by Sam on April 6, 2012 in Tutorials, Web Hosting with 3 Comments
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There comes a time in most websites’ lifetime when it is necessary to transfer to a new web host. Hopefully, your reason for transferring when the time comes is due to a substantial rise in traffic and you require greater resources to handle it, and not because of a troublesome web host. At that time, the availability of your website is crucial and there is no room for downtime if you’re building your business online, since this can mean missed opportunities.

Here’s a simple tutorial to help you complete the web host transfer with absolutely zero downtime and without hiring a professional to take care of the task for you. Continue reading →

20 Amazing Resources To Help You Become A Better Blogger

by Sam on November 21, 2011 in Blogging Success, Inspiration with 3 Comments

The voice of the blogosphere has grown over the years to be a well respect medium for disseminating information as well as a tool for launching businesses and opening doors for ordinary people to making a decent living and achieve their dreams online. Blogging today is not quite as simple as it was in past years and with over 200 Million blogs in existence the competition is quite fierce.

However, one thing I have noticed is that not many bloggers are extraordinary in their efforts to making their blog a success. Lots of mediocrity and sub par performances are abundant as most don’t truly respect the art and are just not hungry enough to seek to be better day-in day-out.

There will never be a perfect blogger but we can work to achieve the best of the best by continuously reading, tweaking, studying, designing and learning to ensure that we stand out in the crowd.

Here are 20 excellent resources that will help you to get started on the right track if you’re new to blogging as well as links for the seasoned blogger who needs to tip the scale. Continue reading →

18 Awesome Websites Powered By WordPress

by Sam on August 2, 2010 in News, Site Review, WordPress with 18 Comments
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WordPress is currently the most popular blogging platform in the world with its newest version at over 11 Million downloads already. This mature, robust and secure platform has gained the respect of business people worldwide with a large number of popular, high profile websites entrusting this system to deliver their services and maintain their image online.

Though many of us use WordPress  just for blogging, it offers us much more than that and can be extended and upgraded to suit and accomplish almost any goal you have online. So to help you get the picture and also gain some insight and/or inspiration, I’ve decided to share some already popular, and not so popular but beautiful, sites that are enjoying success with WordPress as the backbone of their business online.

Most of these sites use WordPress to serve their blog’s content as well as a content management system to efficiently manipulate their site’s design, structure and content.

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26 Major Google Search Engine Ranking Factors Every Blogger Should Know

by Sam on June 24, 2010 in Blogging & SEO, Search Engine Optimization with 31 Comments
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Google states that there are over 200 factors used for ranking websites and determining site authority in search engine results pages. Some factors, however, have more weight than others and proper practice and use of these will guarantee a healthy search engine profile and attract tons of targeted traffic to your site / blog.

Here are 26 major factors that Google uses in measuring up your site / blog and determining your authority. Although there are over 200 factors, the ones listed below provide more powerful results within the shortest period of time.

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How To Create A Custom Front Page In WordPress

by Sam on May 20, 2010 in Other Tutorials, Tutorials with 24 Comments

WordPress is undeniably one of the most robust and user friendly blogging and content management systems on the web. Although when many persons think of WordPress, they limit this amazing free open source software to blogging, while not realizing that this system is used by lots of top online companies around the world to provide news and other types of products and services. Top names such as CNN, BBC, Flickr and Time. So as bloggers, we don’t need to limit ourselves to the simple blog layout since WordPress provides quite a few options for further customization.

So today, I’ll show you how to create your own custom front page that can serve your visitors as a sales page, introductory page or just about anything you wish.

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How to Build an E-Commerce WordPress Site in 5 Minutes

by Sam on April 27, 2010 in Other Tutorials, Tutorials, Videos with 13 Comments

Here’s a quick video tutorial showing you how to add E-Commerce capabilities to your WordPress blog through a free plugin: WP E-Commerce. The basic solution is very easy and allows you to add an almost unlimited amount of products and connects you with the most popular payment gateways.

In this video, Adam Purcell from Hungry Dog Media demonstrates how easy the plugin setup is and does it in under 5 minutes.

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10 Things that Unnecessarily Complicates Your Blog

by Sam on April 24, 2010 in Other Tutorials, Tutorials with 38 Comments

This is a guest post by Tom Walker who is a blogger and designer from a specialist provider of cartridges next day and print media supplies. If you are interested in guest posting on Sam’s Web Guide, please visit our guest post guidelines page here.

Failure to monitor your blog can result in the advent of non-standards compliant code that not only gives your blog a cluttered look, but sometimes causes your blog’s pages to load improperly or not at all. With all the modern emphasis on productivity comes an equally important emphasis on simplicity and order on the Web. A successful blog needs to be useful and visually appealing which means that to keep yours on the radar, you’re going to have to clean it up a bit. Here are some steps you can take to keep your blog simple, clean and in tip-top shape.

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Secure Your WordPress Blog Against Malicious URL Requests

by Sam on April 18, 2010 in Other Tutorials, Security Tutorials, Tutorials with 9 Comments

As I continue the series of techniques to secure and protect your WordPress blog, today I will be showing you how to protect your WordPress installation specifically against Malicious URL Requests that inject code to exploit your theme’s files and MySQL database.

If you missed my previous security articles, you may view: 5 Extreme Steps to Secure Your WordPress Blog and 10 Simple Steps to Secure & Protect your WordPress Blog.

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6 Awesome WordPress Alternatives

by Sam on April 13, 2010 in Blogging & SEO, News with 28 Comments

This is a guest post by Tom Walker from a specialist provider of cartridges next day and print media supplies. If you are interested in guest posting on Sam’s Web Guide, please visit our guest post guidelines page here.

WordPress is one of the most popular blogging software packages available. Because of its popularity, there is a lot of support for it as well as ways to change it through themes, addons, plugins, and customizations. Being popular is not always a good thing though. For a package to appeal to a wide range of people and applications, it has to come with a lot of features and capabilities that a user may not want to use. Continue reading →

5 Additional Extreme Steps to Secure Your WordPress Blog

by Sam on April 11, 2010 in Blogging & SEO, Other Tutorials, Security Tutorials, Tutorials with 13 Comments

You can never be too prepared when it comes to internet security, so I have posted a continuation of my previous post,  10 Simple Steps to Secure & Protect your WordPress Blog, with an additional 5 tips to make it 10 times more difficult for your WordPress site to be compromised by hackers.

Here are 5 additional tips and practices to ensure that your investment of time, energy and money in your blog never goes to waste.

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