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Setting up a WordPress website for under $30

How to setup a WordPress website for under 30 dollars with your own web address

Posted on May 2, 2012 by The WP Guy | 0 Comments

Intro Over the yearsI have had a lot of new website enquiries that I couldn’t build because the budget was almost zero. To those people I have passed on the following advice as an option that will cost less than $30 in total to do. Now I would like to show you how to do it too. Get a domain…

Mediatemple makes mail setup simple

Posted on March 16, 2012 by The WP Guy | 0 Comments

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series mediatemple.net web hosting

Mediatemples’s new email client setup tool system take the agony out of setting up your email software when you get new web hosting. Use this link to set up your email client: http://mediatemple.net/help/mail/mailconfig/ After adding your email address its simple a matter of selecting your email client to install the settings.

How to make WordPress 2011 theme use excerpts

Posted on January 31, 2012 by The WP Guy | 2 Comments

Out of the box the current default theme after installing WordPress shows all of your posts in the long format. To change the theme to just show a short summary as per the screenshot below read on…. Go to the Dashboard -> Appearance -> Editor Now edit the file called content.php by selecting it from selection on the…

WP e-Commerce Gold Cart upgrade tutorial

How to upgrade Gold Cart for WP E-Commerce

Posted on January 31, 2012 by The WP Guy | 1 Comments

If you already have the Gold cart plugin installed with WP E-Commerce this shows you have to do an update. Update available notice in plugin area Locate Gold Cart API key First you need to know the API key before you can download the update. To get the API key go to Dashboard -> Store Upgrades Then you will be able to see…

How to automatically add a table of contents

How to have an automated table of contents

Posted on January 18, 2012 by The WP Guy | 0 Comments

Introduction This is a very useful feature to have on your website as it save the visitor time allowing direct access to the section they want. Plugins to use Better Anchor Links is the tool of choice at the moment. It is a fork of Auto Anchor Links which became stopped working correctly recently. Setup You can adjust the settings…

Top 150 WordPress plugins

Posted on January 15, 2012 by The WP Guy | 0 Comments

The top 150 WordPress plugins from the WordPress.org plugin directory in the category of ‘Most Popular‘ plugin. Akismet Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. All in One SEO Pack Automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization). Contact Form 7 Just another contact form plugin….

How to install bbPress with any theme

Posted on September 26, 2011 by The WP Guy | 2 Comments

Step 1 – install Dashboard -> Left menus -> Plugins -> Add new Put bbPress in search and it was the first result ( Author should be ‘The bbPress Community’ ) Clicked install plugin and activated. Step 2 – membership setup Dashboard -> Left menu -> Settings -> General and set Membership to ‘Anyone can register’ & New User Default…

SEO tips and tools

Posted on August 18, 2011 by The WP Guy | 0 Comments

Watch this space A collection of SEO tools and tips I plan to continue to add to as I find more information. The Periodic Table of SEO Ranking Factors Great tool to explain to clients in a visual manner the factor affecting SEO for websites. http://searchengineland.com/seotable/ you can download the PDF here Google keyword tool Use this tool…

How to fix Timthumb security issue

Posted on August 5, 2011 by The WP Guy | 7 Comments

You may have heard about a security issue with a very popular file called timthumb.php used by many themes and a few plugins I might add to dynamically resize images on the fly. A post about it is here – http://wpcandy.com/reports/timthumb-security-vulnerability-discovered It sounds scary but is quite easy to fix if you follow the steps in the solution section below….

WP-eCommerce for WordPress has friends with benefits

Posted on July 26, 2011 by The WP Guy | 0 Comments

Here is a presentation I gave at a Sydney WordPress meetup about why the WP-eCommerce plugin is worth revisiting if you haven’t seen it for a few years. Items worth considering: – great looking pre-made themes using this plugin let you launch a shopping site very quickly. One example is Storefrontthemes.com this theme is a great example: Storefrontthemes theme called…

How to setup a WordPress website for under 30 dollars with your own web address

Mediatemple makes mail setup simple

How to make WordPress 2011 theme use excerpts

How to upgrade Gold Cart for WP E-Commerce

How to have an automated table of contents

Top 150 WordPress plugins

How to install bbPress with any theme

SEO tips and tools

How to fix Timthumb security issue

WP-eCommerce for WordPress has friends with benefits

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