How much does WordPress cost? Glad you asked! Here, roughly, is the breakdown of the basics: Domain name registration – less than $20/year. Domain hosting – about $10/month. WordPress (self-hosted) – free. SSL Certificate – $6 to 150/year depending on the certificate level, vendor, and if you or the host … Continue reading →
Give a unique holiday gift that is also practical and empowering. Don’t know what to give your loved one, friend, colleague, or employee? Holiday gift certificates are available from Joyce Kaye, The Computer Spirit! Purchase whatever number of hours you like, and the recipient can use them for not only … Continue reading →
I know that WordPress has quite a buzz these days, but perhaps you didn’t know there are TWO WordPresses. Huh? There is WordPress.org and then there’s WordPress.com. Let’s go over the basic differences… WordPress.org provides free blogging software. You can install themes and plugins, run advertisements, edit the database, and … Continue reading →
Here’s some helpful and interesting info about images and websites. Have you ever had your mouse hovering over an image and then some text appears? This is because the developer included a TITLE. This is a nifty way to display tool tips containing additional information about images. Note that this … Continue reading →
Blog posts in a WordPress site are listed in chronological order on the posts page, with the most recent at the top. Sometimes you may want a post to remain at the top of the list – to do so, you designate that post as a Sticky. For instance, if … Continue reading →
Billie Holiday and WordPress In case you weren’t aware, Matt Mullenweg, the founder of the company behind WordPress (Automattic), is a jazz fan, and, in fact, studied jazz saxophone at Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Hence, when updates are made to self-hosted WordPress, each version is … Continue reading →
Wordfence is a small company that is passionate about software engineering and dedicated to protecting intellectual property. I use the free version of their security plugin. Read what they had to say when a Microsoft site dedicated to fighting the U.S. government on matters of policy and surveillance was hacked … Continue reading →
WordPress is already search engine optimized ‘out of the box’ because of the way it is coded. However, if you want to enhance SEO, I recommend you use Yoast’s WordPress plugin. Most of the technical aspects of SEO you should do are actually covered by their free WordPress SEO plugin. … Continue reading →
With so many platforms out there to build websites, when developing your own website it can be helpful (and fun) to see what websites are built with for learning and creativity purposes. With BuiltWith®, you can plug in a domain name, and – voilà! – find out if a site … Continue reading →
We’ve all been aware of the consistent huge increases in the use of mobile devices. With Google’s biggest ranking change ever coming April 21st (see Google’s Biggest Ranking Change Ever article), Google is basically telling us to make our websites responsive. And that includes moi – ya know, it’s like … Continue reading →
