Reading Time: < 1 minI’ve spent much of the past month or so working on a huge revamp of A Brighter Web, and we’re proud to be able to show it to you now. We’ve had our local Meetup running for about five years now. We’ve hosted over 100 meetings with around 3500 total attendees, and we’ll continue to host […]
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Switching to the SEO Framework plugin?
Reading Time: < 1 minI’ve been a big fan of the Yoast SEO plugin for many years. It does a great job of helping with the SEO (“Search Engine Optimization”) on WordPress-powered websites. I first shared it with you back in 2012 and I wrote this long post about how to use it in 2013. Even today we’re still […]
WordPress Wednesday: What is WordPress Multisite?
Reading Time: < 1 minI’ve been posting some short WordPress tutorial videos to my YouTube account lately, and I plan on sharing one of them on here each Wednesday. Today is a simple explanation for something that you may have heard about but don’t understand: WordPress Multisite. It’s relatively easy to install a new WordPress site every time you […]
WordPress Wednesday: How to log in to your WordPress site
Reading Time: < 1 minI’ve been posting some short WordPress tutorial videos to my YouTube account lately, and I plan on sharing one of them on here each Wednesday. Today is a simple but sometimes frustrating issue people have with WordPress: how to log in! It sounds easy, but can be tricky. There is WordPress.org and WordPress.com (these slides […]
You need to keep your website backed up — use ManageWP to do it
Reading Time: 2 minI’ve talked about ManageWP quite a bit at our Meetup, but some of their recent changes have made it even more amazing. If you’re not familiar with it, ManageWP is a system to help you manage a bunch of WordPress sites from one place. A “bunch” could be 3, 30 or 300 — it can […]
Build a WordPress landing page with a Blank Slate
Reading Time: < 1 minThere are times when you might want a page on your site to be completely blank so you can add content the way you want without headers and footers and sidebars and logos getting in your way. If you use WordPress, there is a very simple way to make that happen — the Blank Slate […]
Tips for consistent blogging
Reading Time: 3 minThis week at our Meetup (come join us here) we’ll be talking about blogging. Since my WordCamp US wrap-up post on December 4, I’ve been publishing an entry pretty much every weekday since then. In the last few weeks, my wife has been blogging most every day as well. What changed? I saw it coming […]
How to choose a WordPress theme
Reading Time: 2 minWhile we build all of our themes from scratch at GreenMellen, using the Genesis framework, there are a lot of situations where you might want to just grab a pre-made theme, add your own logo and colors, and just go with that. If you go down that road, there’s two main types of themes that […]
Uptime monitors with a delay are very useful
Reading Time: 3 minA few years ago, I set out to find a good service to monitor uptime on all of the websites we manage (it varies, up to around 150 of them at any given time). It initially came down to two leading contenders: Pingdom – Undoubtedly the best, but it would have cost us around $249/mo. […]
Learn more about Google Analytics with us next week
Reading Time: < 1 minThe year is coming to a close, and we have a couple of great Meetups planned to help wrap it up. Thursday, December 15 – 11:30am On December 15, we’ll be meeting to discuss “Google Analytics — how was your year?”. We’ll take a beginner-level look at Google Analytics, then slowly dig deeper to show […]