Using the FileZilla FTP Client With HostGator

WordPress is great.  99% of what you need to do you can do through the admin dashboard.  But what of the other 1%? Sometimes you will need to access the files on your host directly.  You may have some non-WordPress pages that you need to manipulate, or perhaps want to swap one photo for another without...

How to Hide Your Site While You are Building It

So the question comes up every once in a while of how to hide a site while it is under construction.  After all, none of us really want to have people looking at our dirty laundry.  As is so often the case, there is a plugin for that. I wish I could remember where I picked this tip up so that I could give...

Not All WordPress Plugins Appear When Searching Through the WordPress Dashboard

I was recently directed to a WordPress Plugin named ReplyMe.  This plugin will automatically send an email to somebody who left a comment when somebody else replies to his comment.  However, when I searched for the plugin through the dashboard, it did not come up.  I figured it was a premium plugin and...

Add to Plugins to Your Site at Your Own Risk

So here I am, a huge believer in the power of plugins and yet I am warning you about them?  What gives, Nick? I am now using a service to post my content to social media.  Twitter, Facebook, Digg, etc.  It is too exhausing to do it all manually, so I I will write that service up down the road a bit, but...

Installing a Firefox add-on to check for broken links

It is no secret that Google is a very powerful tool for internet users, including webmasters.  While I have written an article on how to sign up for Google Analytics (it is up at eZine Articles right now, and as soon as I get my screenshots pasted in I will post it here as well), the article on Google...