1. Make Sure Your Website is Visible to Search Engines You will want to make sure that your website is visible to search engines like Google and Bing. WordPress has a built-in option to prevent search engines from crawling your … Continue reading →
Spend about an hour a week working on these few SEO tasks so your website can be better optimized and gain more visitors. 1. Update your website content regularly Google and other search engines love fresh, relevant content. Write about … Continue reading →
The website is designed to attract volunteers and nonprofits alike; using a third party software to match needs and talents. It is a brochure site, built with WordPress for easy updating by Barrington Area Volunteer Connection (BAVC) administrators. It is … Continue reading →
Time to tune up your website WordPress.org Codex (the WordPress.org online manual) recommends regular site maintenance and has come up with a monthly schedule of tasks you should perform to keep your site running smoothly. They have created a monthly Site … Continue reading →
The consequences of plugins that do not get updated by their authors WordPress was conceived as an open source platform. That means that you can download and install the application for free. Complementing this is the work done by plugin … Continue reading →
Wordcamp Chicago – talking everything about WordPress This weekend I attended the Wordcamp conference in Chicago. Two rainy, windy days with traffic backed up on the highways and a lot of attendees who forgot their umbrellas! The annual conference was, as … Continue reading →
Pen & Ink Illustrations by artist Kathleen Nelson I am so lucky. My friend and client Kathleen Nelson regularly sends me notecards with her fabulous artwork on it. A skilled artist, Kathleen, draws just about everything from animals to gardens … Continue reading →
A new WordPress version is now available for update. There is a new WordPress version available —v4.7.3. This new version patches a few security vulnerabilities and also contains a few fixes for several issues. It is important to update your … Continue reading →
What is an SSL? Last June I wrote a post about the need for SSL certificates. You can read it here: What is an SSL and why you need it. SSL (Secure Sockets Layer, a standard security technology) is a security measure that … Continue reading →
When Sue Foley of Posh Services LLC approached me to work on her new website project, she knew that her current site did not communicate to visitors all the services she offered. Also, the old site did not render as visually … Continue reading →
