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I’m in planning mode for early next year, and one of the things I am planning to do is run a series of free webinars to teach people how to solve particular problems in WordPress. If you haven’t been on one of my webinars before, let me explain how they work. A webinar is a live events held over the internet where I can share my computer screen with you and show you how to solve a WordPress problem. Can I ask you to participate in my survey so I can find the problems people are having with WordPress. Can […]

I received an email today from the good people over at Wishlist telling me that they are having a sale on of their excellent Wishlist member plugin. What Is WishList Member It’s a membership plugin for WordPress that allows you to protect certain posts or pages on your site for members only. The visitors needs to login to see that content. You can integrate WishList member with payment processors such as Paypal so you can charge for your content, I’ve used it on some of my own projects and I heartily recommend it.  In my opinion it is the best […]

I’ve been trying to find a suitable system for my referral program for some time now and I think I have found it in Zferral. What I Need From A Referral Program I need a couple of things, this is why my search has taken so long 1) The ability to reward my existing clients with a reward for the referral, many people have suggested they would prefer free support rather than money. 2) The ability to provide a monetary reward to internet marketers who want to refer me. Enter Zferral Zferral is a software as a service system which […]

One of my favourite tools as a WordPress techie is a tiny plugin called MY FTP, is has helped me too many times to remember, I thought a quick post on this excellent utility would be a good idea.

In a back to basics post, I want to answer the question “What is a theme?”. I am very guilty of assuming everyone understands the WordPress concepts of themes, plugins, updates and all that jazz, so I am taking a step back and writing a series of posts to describe the building blocks upon which WordPress is built. So What Is  A Theme? In a nut shell it is the front end look and feel of your site.  When a person visits your site they do not access the backend dashboard, all they see is the front end of your […]

I would like to invite you to a webinar on Wednesday 17th November at 12:00-13:00 Eastern, 9-10am Pacific, 17:-18 UK.  The webinar is entitled: “Create A Custom WordPress Theme With Headway” The Headway theme framework allows you to create a custom look and feel for your WordPress site without the need for programming skills, a designer or knowledge of the complicated theme layout system.  I use headway on my own site and many of the client sites I have worked on. Having a unique look and feel for your site can make you stand out from the thousands of other […]