Ultimate WordPress Online Business Giveaway

Ultimate WordPress GiveAway

This is just COOL! I was contacted by my friend Adam Warner of WP Pro Business (great guy!) to see if I wanted to participate in an online business giveaway he was doing. Of course I said yes (especially having just run a contest for my site makeover re-launch). Adam is also using Rafflecopter for [...]

WordPress Chick Makeover Contest – Winners Announced!

WordPress Chick Contest Winners

So the contest is over. And a HUGE Thank You to EVERYONE who entered! Before I announce the winners, (c’mon.. gotta have a little fun with this, right?) I thought I’d do a quick look back at how the contest went. Overall, I’m happy with the results. I definitely could have done more with this, [...]

[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 [...]

The WordPress Chick- Site Makeover Relaunch!

WordPress Chick Site Relaunch

FINALLY! This has been a LONG time coming. I think the post I wrote about this was a couple months ago (with screenshots). You’ve probably seen some of my stuff out there already (twitter, facebook, email, etc.) that has the new look. I also want to share some of the new things going on here [...]

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 [...]

2011 – A look back, life lessons and a little love

WordPress Chick 2011 Look Back

Here it is. The BIG “Year in Review” Post! I’ve been doing some serious contemplating on this post this past week (yea, sounds trite, but the reality is the end of the year is the ideal time to do this. I’m done with resolutions though- I’ll work from intention). I’m going to do this in [...]

[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] 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, [...]