[VIDEO] Social Box WordPress Widget – free too!

Social Box Widget WordPress Chick

One of my favorite (here comes the uber geek in me) things to do on the weekends when I’m waking up with my coffee is to chill on the computer reading blogs and looking for cool new WordPress things! (And I say ‘things’ because it could be plugins, themes, logos, icons, stories, WHATEVER… yep, that [...]

Thursday Thanks: My personal Google Guy

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Anyone who tried to email me a couple months back probably remembers the cluster that my inbox became. Literally… it was a bit of  a nightmare! When people emailed me they would get anywhere from 15-20 bounces BACK saying I hadn’t received the email, when in fact I had. I also received an error message [...]

Hide a Widget Plugin

widget-locationizer-plugin

So this plugin isn’t actually called ‘Hide a Widget’ – but that’s exactly what this plugin does, sort of. It basically allows you to decide which pages you want specific plugins to appear on- so if you want to set up a sales page without any widgets on it (other than maybe an opt-in box [...]

Google Basics

The beauty of WordPress is that it is SUPER easy to make sure Google knows your site exists…and to make sure it keeps coming back and checking things out! There are a couple of basic plugins that make it simple to install Google Analytics and have your sitemap created and verified. You’ll need to make [...]

Google and WordPress

So I’ve realized that one of the biggest challenges for people with WordPress is a lot of the technical side of what needs to be done to make sure your site is optimized. I’m sure that sounds somewhat obvious to many people, but if you’re just getting started out with WordPress, or you’ve managed to [...]