This post focuses on WordPress lockouts when using the iThemes Security plugin. First I’m going to talk about how you could accidentally get locked out of your blog, then how to remove that lockout, then after covering that, I’ll talk about how to avoid it […]
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Mobile Themes & Responsive Blog Designs
With UppSite Mobile announcing today that they will yank their plugin in July (this is what I was currently using) I’m wondering what people without coding skills use to make their Website/Blog mobile responsive? Better yet, how can someone customize the look of their site […]
Should You Start a Blog on Blogger or WordPress?
Hi, I’ve come across your blog today—nice!—in search of solutions to improving my Blogger blog for my novel series. I have a basic question for you: Which is better, Blogger or WordPress? I’m not keen to switch to WordPress, but if you think it would […]
Why Your WordPress Site Was Hacked
From October last year until about January I was experiencing a lot of downtime (at some point, 70% of the time) on my WordPress blog (hosted at my own domain). Despite keeping everything up to date and not having a lot of plugins installed, I […]
How to Create Dynamic Featured Images in WordPress
When most people want a featured image (say a regular graphic for a “Discussion” feature), they use the “Set featured image” option inside WordPress. However, if you’re like me, you create feature graphics to match your theme. But then what happens when you change your […]
Squarespace vs WordPress – Why WordPress Wins
This article compares Squarespace to WordPress.org, not WordPress.com I don’t consider myself well-versed in Squarespace, so I’m not really qualified to give a completely thorough and accurate comparison of the two platforms. But I recently had to maneuver around Squarespace for the first time, coincidentally […]
How to Install Twitter Cards on Your WordPress Blog
How do you install twitter cards? The twitter API isn’t very clear on what I’m supposed to do and all the tutorials I’ve found online are outdated. I can’t figure it out and I would love to have them! Thanks Ashley! Jessica Hi Jessica! First, […]
How to Use Font Icons on Your WordPress Blog
Font Awesome is a library of font-based icons that you can use on websites. I use them on Nose Graze! Since these icons are fonts, rather than images, they are vectors. That means they can be resized without loss of quality. And, since they’re fonts, […]
Where I Got My “Ask Me a Question” Feature
Did you code your pop up that says, “Ask me a question” or is it a plug in? I quite like it! Glenn This question has been very commonly asked ever since I installed this feature. Originally, I bought the plugin from Code Canyon. However, […]
Migrating Your WordPress Theme from a Foundation Design to Bootstrap
I build all of my websites on a responsive framework. Originally, I started using the Foundation framework by ZURB. But recently, I experimented with Bootstrap and decided to switch. However, this proposed a few problems for me. In the version of Foundation I was using […]