Is WordPress the ideal site building tool?

Wordpress may be the ideal site building tool. This article explores some of the reasons I think that, and shows you a video of some results I have obtained using Wordpress for my affiliate sites.

Using WordPress for Affiliate Sites

Wordpress is a fantastic tool for creating affiliate sites, but how do you set it all up? We look at a couple of models you could use.

Adding a Feedburner Subscription Box to your WordPress Site

Feedburner is a great free service (now owned by Google).  It allows people to subscribe to your feeds, and will even email your subscribers for you whenever you post new material to your blog.  It doesn’t matter whether you post 1 or 100 new articles to your site in any given day – Feedburner will [...]

Manual Upgrade of WordPress

It has happened a few times to me.  The automatic upgrade plugin for WordPress hasn’t worked.  The last time this happened was with WordPress release 2.6.1. and it happened on all of my blogs.  Is it a hosting issue, or a plugin issue?  I am not sure, but what I am sure about is that [...]

Why use Tags in WordPress

WordPress Tags?  What are they and why should you be using them? Since WordPress 2.3, tags have become an integral part of blogging with WordPress. Have a look at sidebar on this page.  Do you see that large box full of words?  That’s a tag cloud. Each of the words in this box are words [...]

Things you need to know about Permalinks

Permalinks are a great way to optimize your blog post URLs.  If you read my article on WordPress Permalinks,  you may be using the same permalink structure that I use, namely this one: /%category%/%postname%/ With this type of permalink structure, your post URLs will look like this: http://affiliate-minder.com/wordpresstutorials/install-wordpress-theme/ This is an actual URL from this [...]

Protecting WordPress From Hackers

WP Secure is a script that can restrict access to your WP-Admin folder based on IP address. That means no-one can login from any IP address other than your own. Here is how to set it up, and how it works: Online Videos by Veoh.com You can buy WP Secure here. Bookmark on Delicious Digg [...]

WordPress Permalink Structure

Since we want to create a well-structured web-site, we need to set WordPress up so that it creates SEO friendly URLs for your posts.  To do this, we need to edit the Permalink options. Literally speaking, a permalink is link that doesn’t change.  e.g. when you write an article for your website, it is given [...]

Essential pages for any WordPress site

The title is slightly misleading.  These “essential” pages are not just for WordPress sites, but for ALL web sites. The pages are: 1. Terms of Use 2. Privacy 3. Disclaimer (I have seen Terms of Use and Disclaimer combined onto a single page). 4. Contact Us The first three pages listed here are legal documents [...]

Creating a homepage in WordPress

If you have installed WordPress  and the plugins recommended in my Top 10 WordPress Plugins article, you ‘ll currently have a blog that looks like the generic WordPress blog, containing a hello world post, and an about page. Note: You can click images to enlarge them. We still have a fair bit of customizing to [...]

Installing Plugins in WordPress

This video shows how to install a plugin into WordPress. The plugin installed in this video is a Google XML Sitemap generator, but the principle for installing any plugin is the same, so follow along with this one, and you should be able to install any plugin you want. Installing a WordPress Plugin Video: Any [...]