Here’s a trick question: Where May I Upload WordPress Plugins? Why is it a trick? Because you can’t upload WordPress plugins if you host your website at WordPress.com—or to be …
WordPress Theme Speed
How fast is your web site? Is WordPress Theme Speed chasing away your visitors? Speed is on our minds all the time, both because we live in a society that …
Moving From WordPress.ORG to WordPress.COM
The reason we started The WordPress Helpers, if we could boil it down to just one, was to make understanding WordPress easier. That means different things to different people. One group …
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 Data Portability
At The WordPress Helpers we focus mostly on self-hosted, download-WordPress-and-run-through-the-five-minute-install version of WordPress. But there are other choices; a growing number of “managed hosting” companies will do the heavy lifting …
Writing a WordPress Post: How Hard Can It Be?
In our piece on WordPress Hosting and Backup I mentioned that while we don’t generally recommend do-it-our-way hosting solutions, there are a few WordPress websites that thrive using simple themes with little-to-no customization. …
