Changing Your Webpage’s Logo – Elegant Themes’ The Source

  I like to think that when we build blogs we like to show a bit of ourselves to the world.  It is hard to do that if we sport somebody else’s logo, even if we like and use their products.  I like and use Elegant Themes for my blogs because I get a lot of choices for a reasonable price, but that...

Watch Out for This When Manually Updating Your Theme

I am of the mindset to always upgrade my theme and plugins when a new version is available.  I rationalize this by believing that if everything is of the most recent version the pieces are most likely to work together seamlessly.  In so doing, I tripped myself up. I use Google Analytics to track this...

Who do I Trust to Teach me WordPress? Why Me, of Course!

So I have been absent from this blog for some time due to (insert list of excuses here).  Life gets in the way of our interests sometimes, and the important thing is that we get back to doing what we enjoy when we are able.  So I am back, though will certainly not be posting as often as I used to. I wanted...

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...