Morning Coffee Posts
How to save yourself from headaches while migrating your WordPress site to a new hosting company
It’s a familiar story: you’ve launched your first self-hosted WordPress site. You got the domain, set up a hosting account, installed WordPress, and...
Social media for businesses – a link post
Google recently started pestering us to publish a post on VC's listing in Google "My Business". This is a relatively new feature of "My Business",...
WordPress is about to have its New Coke moment
Wordpress is about to go through an epochal change, and no one knows whether it's going to be a huge flop or a raging success. When Coca-Cola...
The Eleven Best Security Plugins for WordPress
Wordpress users can generally be divided into two groups: those whose sites have been attacked, and everyone else. If you are in the latter group...
Google is Pushing Businesses to Blog on Google+ (Is It the Beginning of the End of Blogger?)
No one - and I do mean no one - is using Google's social network, Google+. (Well, Google employees do, but that is a punishment rather than a...
Search – It’s not just for Google
Over the past few months I have been using this blog to explain how to solve technical problems in Wordpress. I've covered solving site speed...
WordPress.com lets business plan customers install third-party themes and plugins
For the longest time the key difference between sites hosted on Wordpress.com and WP sites hosted elsewhere (aka self-hosted sites) was that only...
Four things I learned at WordCamp DC
Just about every industry and tech group has their own conference, and Wordpress is no exception. The official Wordpress conferences are called...
Your WordPress site is going to be more secure this year – Or Else …
HTTPS, or "secure" HTTP, is a technical protocol that's getting a lot of buzz right now. You've probably heard techies recommending it because it is...