Here in The States, former Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is embroiled in a computer-related legal matter concerning whether the servers and backups for them where she …
WordPress Attachment Pages and Other Ugly Issues
Among our many issues with The WordPress Media Library, there’s a little-known-yet-hard-to-ignore feature that creates pages for each of your media-library-based attachments. Not surprisingly, these are called WordPress Attachment Pages. What …
WordPress Alt Tags
One of the many issues that contribute to your success on the Internet in general and using a content management system like WordPress in particular is the way you attract …
Envato Themes Is a Monster
In another article published here today, we said something nice—if lukewarm—about Envato Market. Well, it seems The WordPress Helpers isn’t the only WordPress-related group expressing concerns about Envato this week. Specifically, one WordPress …
Matt Mullenweg Talks WordPress Business Decisions
Recently, I’ve found myself agreeing with WordPress/Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg’s business decisions on several occasions. Matt is a smart guy, evidenced a number of years back by his intentional decision …
WordPress Theme Decision Points
What are the Decision Points you go through when choosing a WordPress Theme? President Bush II likely doesn’t know, but decision points are important in any process (by the way; …
Would “I Love Lucy” Run WordPress?
And now, for something (almost) completely different. If you happened to read my piece on the Ivory Tower from which Seth Godin pontificates, you might realize that marketing is on …
Sourcing WordPress Confusion
The other day, I got what felt like a ringing endorsement of the ideas we had when we decided to start The WordPress Helpers. I’d come across a story twice that day, …
Free WordPress Stuff as a Content Marketing Strategy
Let’s talk “content marketing“. Or even better, let’s forget the buzzword and talk “Free WordPress Stuff”. Last week, I came across the story you see linked below, over at WPTavern. It …
Changing The WordPress Footer
At the bottom of many web sites, you’ll find something called, common-sensically enough “the footer”. WordPress treats the footer as a special element, and while you can do many things …