How to Secure Your WordPress Site

September 9, 2010

Why You Need to Secure Your WordPress Site Imagine this: a small, flying robot is moving through a well-to-do neighborhood, checking for open windows and unlocked doors, testing each lock with every known key at its disposal. When it gains entry, it plants a small device that will enable its owner to re-enter at will, [...]

Free Report: SEO Basics

May 10, 2010

I’ve been using the Scribe SEO plugin for a while now, and I’m a bit embarrassed that I haven’t shared it with you sooner. It works hand-in-glove with The Thesis Theme for WordPress or with the All-in-One SEO plugin and helps you improve the search engine optimization of the blog post you’re currently working on [...]

31 Days to a Better Blog-Special Deal

January 14, 2010

Darren Rowse, on his Problogger blog, created a series called 31 Days to a Better Blog. The response to that was so enthusiastic that he turned it into an e-book. (That’s a book in pdf format that you download and read with Adobe Acrobat or other pdf reader.) The e-book is in a workbook type [...]

How to Be Transparent: Complying with the FTC Disclosure Regs

October 19, 2009

The new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising took a lot of my fellow garden bloggers by surprise. Because I’ve been following the career of my friend Jenn Fowler as she’s gone from frugal blogger to Walmart Mom to social media consultant, I know that many bloggers [...]

How to Find a Good WordPress Blog Design

August 29, 2009

Recently I was asked if I knew “anyone who is good at designing a website/blog.” I thought I’d share my thoughts with all my readers. Good Design for Free I know of a few designers, but paying someone is not your only option. There are many free designs, called themes, out there for WordPress. Some [...]