Pinterest & WordPress – Plugins, buttons & widgets – Part 1 [VIDEO]

WordPress Chick Pinterest

Before you read this I feel I really should warn you about Pinterest. It is ADDICTIVE! I honestly have to monitor the time I’m on it more than any other social media site. WHY? Well, as I’ve stated a zillion times, I am a complete geek about anything visual. And Pinterest is just that… Eye [...]

Genesis Featured Widget – Keeping your content fresh [VIDEO]

Genesis Featured Widget

It’s no secret that I’m a HUGE fan of Genesis when it comes to WordPress (it’s pretty much all I use). It has a TON of built in features and options that make it easy to keep things fresh on your site. The Genesis Featured Widget is one of those features. This post idea came [...]

[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 [...]

[VIDEO] ManageWP- why I’m using it

ManageWP

So, being the visual geek that I am- the second I saw ManageWP I knew it was a godsend. Why? Because I consider myself someone who helps the EVERYDAY WordPress user, I’m always looking for tools, plugins, advice- whatever – that makes it EASY for people to make the most of their WordPress sites. Enter [...]

WordPress Custom Menus & Custom Links [VIDEO]

Open Custom Link In A New Window

Open custom links in a new window So this was one of those little things that when I figured out how to do this decided it would make sense to write a post about it and do a quick little video showing you HOW to do this (which, when you watch the video you’ll laugh [...]

StudioPress Generate Child Theme – adding the Generate Box [VIDEO]

StudioPress Generate Box Video

After doing the post last week on the new StudioPress Generate Child theme (which I love!)- I received a comment yesterday from a reader about adding the Generate box to his site. SO.. decided to do a quick video on how to add the generate box (which is really what makes this theme so flippin’ [...]

Halloween Social Media Icons & Graphics [VIDEO]

WordPress-Halloween

Because I’m such a geek about visual stuff, I thought it would be fun to put together a list of Halloween social media icons and graphics! You might be wondering what this has to do with WordPress? (or maybe you’re not… we all need to mix it up once in a while and have some [...]

[VIDEO] StudioPress Update- themes, plugins, graphics & marketplace

StudioPress Genesis New

StudioPress is on a ROLL! Today I realized that it’s been a LONG time since I’ve simply done a shout out about all the cool stuff going on over at StudioPress! (I know, twist my arm to talk about StudioPress!). So I thought I’d do a little slideshow /video about everything they’ve got going on. [...]

[VIDEO] Adding a Genesis box to single posts

genesis framework

This is SUCH an easy way to add a little affiliate income to your business as well as sharing the love for StudioPress /Genesis. The instructions for this can be found on the StudioPress site (developers section), but I thought I’d do a video of it while I add it to one of my other [...]

[VIDEO] Don’t have Photoshop? No problem! WP Paint to the rescue

wordpress paint plugin

No more worries about image editing in WordPress! Yes, I know. They added some functionality to WordPress a few versions ago, and they’re great for basic editing, cropping, re-sizing, etc. But for more COOL options- this plugin will do the trick! I found this plugin, WP Paint,  on CodeCanyon.net and while I DO have photoshop, [...]