Wordpress Blogging Platform
WordPress is a popular blogging platform for a number of reasons. Wordpress is a free, stable, easy to use, and very easy to modify or extend in terms of functionality. These factors combine to make WordPress a great system for beginners, professionals, and everyone in between. In fact, some of the most influential blogs on the Internet are powered by WordPress. Themes, plugins, and custom coded modules are just the beginning of the advanced features of WordPress, and a number of programs are designed specifically to interface with this dominant blogging platform.
If you are brand new to Wordpress make sure to check out our Wordpress Beginners Guide.
Below you will find all of the Wordpress Posts here on Art of Blog. For those of you new to Wordpress, I highly suggest checking out some of our beginner tutorials.
Latest Wordpress Posts
One thing that I love doing is searching on Twitter, for people asking for help. Recently I saw two Tweets that had been asking for help in customizing their WordPress header. Those tweets became the inspiration for this tutorial. I wanted to make this tutorial as easy as possible, and
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If you’d like to customize an existing WordPress theme, especially a theme framework like Genesis, the recommended approach is to use a child theme. A child theme is a separate theme that stores all of your specific customizations. That way if the parent theme is ever updated, you don’t lose
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You know that WordPress coupled with a powerful theme framework is the best way to run a website. The problem is, when you create websites for people who aren’t tech savvy, the clutter–WordPress branding, RSS feed links, and much more–confuses people. To prevent this, I customize my client’s WordPress installations
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Last week, Nick Reese wrote an article detailing the ins and outs of list building. Its an excellent article, and I’d highly recommend you read it. I’d also highly recommend you use MailChimp. However, it leaves you with one small problem: How can you place a sign up form for
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We all know about cross browser compatibility. If you’ve ever tried your hand at blog design you know the headaches that Internet Explorer can cause. Everyone knows that getting your design right in each and every modern browser is crucial to the effectiveness of your design. However, most of us
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Securing your self-hosted WordPress site is one of the most critical aspects of starting a blog or growing it to the next level. As your site becomes more popular and garners the attention of new readers, it becomes a more attractive target for hackers and people who are up to
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Congratulations! If you are reading this, there is a good chance that you have decided to use WordPress as your blogging platform. Once you have installed WordPress, it is time to get familiar with the interface. WordPress is an amazing tool for getting a message out in a secure fashion, yet
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You know the drill. We’ve all read countless WordPress articles that define the different areas and features — Posts, Pages, Tags, Categories, and the like — but rarely do these articles offer practical examples about how the novice to intermediate WordPress user can best utilize these features. In this article,
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WordPress is a powerful blogging platform that can be modified in countless ways, either with off the shelf solutions or with custom programming. Before all that customization can take place, or indeed any blogging can occur, one has to get WordPress up and running. If the idea of setting up
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Though the Web is comprised mostly of text, images make the web interesting. Pictures not only help engage your audience but it also helps break up your content to make it more approachable. No one likes reading one long block of text. :) Today we are looking at adding a
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