Everyone speaks in one form of shorthand or another. We all have special lingo we use to refer to things that we understand, and use that lingo when we’re with …
Upload WordPress Plugins (Mother, May I?)
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 …
What Are Real WordPress Costs ?
You’ve heard this WordPress thing is free. You’ve heard it’s really inexpensive. You’ve heard it’s anything but. What’s the truth? How do you get a handle on Real WordPress Costs? …
WordPress Database Fields — The Advanced Kind
The WordPress Helpers covers WordPress from as many angles as we can think of. It’s a lot of acreage to navigate. Some of the fields—the database fields—are painfully uninteresting … and also …
Free WordPress Business Process
A few weeks ago we ran a piece on how Tom McFarlin looks at Free WordPress Business Process. Tom develops WordPress Themes and Plug-ins, and that piece talked about—essentially—giving away …
WordPress Servers and Backups
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 Cloud Hosting: A Bad Idea?
Here at The WordPress Helpers, we find ourselves discussing hosting quite a bit. From pointing you at genuinely Free WordPress Hosting, to a broad discussion of hosting choices, The WordPress …
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 …