Selecting a WordPress Theme [sc:MainTutorial]There are many great themes for WordPress. A lot are free but I don’t mind spending a bit (<$50) for a high quality, custom design. Browse ThemeForest for a number of great options. I chose MySiteMyWay’s Construct theme ($35) for this site because it’s Responsive. Responsive themes provide an adapted experience for mobile and […]
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Recommended Plugins
Recommended Plugins for WordPress [sc:MainTutorial]WordPress’ extensive plugin library is one of the reasons the platform has been so successful. Here are the plugins that I recommend you consider in any baseline installation: W3 Total Cache (W3TC) W3 Total Cache is the go to plugin for scalability. I’ve written extensively about using this plugin in conjunction with […]
Sending and Receiving Email
[sc:MainTutorial]In order to send and receive email from your custom domain name, you’ll need to register with an email hosting service of some kind. While you can host your own email server, I don’t generally recommend it. One popular option that is no longer free is Google Apps for Business $5 per month per user. Microsoft’s […]
Enhancing Copy and Paste with Your Site URL
<h1>Enhancing Copy and Paste with Your Site URL</h2> When readers copy and paste your text, it can be useful to automatically append your site URL or other copyright or contact information to the clipboard. To see an example, <a href=”damemagazine.com/2014/05/23/amazon-killing-my-sex-life”>visit Dame Magazine</a> and try selecting text, copying and pasting to an email or text editor. […]
Cloning and Duplicating Posts and Pages
<h1>Cloning and Duplicating Posts and Pages</h1> It’s also quite useful to duplicate posts and pages. I’ve had success with the <a href=”https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-post/”>Duplicate Post WordPress plugin</a>.
Searching & Replacing Across Your Site
Searching & Replacing Across Your Site Over time, you’ll find situations where it’s helpful to do a global search and replace across your site content. WordPress doesn’t support this directly. You can either use MySQL to search and replace directly or you can use the search and replace plugin. Note: Before you do this, it’s […]
Setting Up a Contact Form
Setting Up a Contact Form The two hard parts about WordPress contact forms are 1) preventing spam and 2) enabling mail services on some WordPress hosts. It’s best not to try to host your own mail server. I’ve found that combining the Contact Form 7 plugin with the Mailgun for WordPress plugin provides an elegant solution. […]
Estimating Costs
[sc:MainTutorial visible=”contracted”]Here’s an overview of how much some of the services that I’ve reviewed may cost you. This will help give you an idea of the economic costs of thoughtfully running a fully-featured web presence. In general, your highest costs are likely to come from consultants and developers that assist you – as their hourly […]
Choosing WordPress Hosting
[sc:MainTutorial]For most people, managed hosting is a good choice. Managed WordPress hosts take care of most of the complexity for you for a small premium. If you’re a technologist or a do it yourselfer, then you may want to self host on your own virtual server. Managed Hosting I recommend WPEngine for most clients but […]
Choosing WordPress
[sc:MainTutorial]While this tutorial focuses mostly on WordPress, there are a wide variety of options when considering what system to build or publish your web presence on. For many people, these are near-religious questions. Below are the technologies that I feel work well and are state of the art today. I also think it’s critical that […]