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WordPress, Cutline, Archives and Backup!

    There are time online when you are not just a marketer but you become a tech-head too. Yesterday I mucked up my blog.

    I had been using the Cutline theme by maestro Chris Pearson. It’s an older theme but I like it’s visual simplicity. I noticed in the Cutline Options sub-menu that you could create an Archives page easily.

    I clicked the “enable archives page” in Cutline Options. Then I set up the archive page in the Pages submenu. Voila … I had an archives page.

    Whoa!! Wait a minute. Now the Archives page is my default first page and I can’t figure out how to change it.  I failed to notice the little extra text underneath the ‘enable’ button that said this would make the Archives page my First Page. So no matter what I did, the Archives page hijacked my site and I couldn’t get my site to show my posts asRead More »WordPress, Cutline, Archives and Backup!

    Christmas Snow On Your Blog

      Using Word Press? Notice this in the last update? Quick and easy way to add a seasonal feel to your blog if you don’t have time to change templates or fiddle with graphics. Simply tick the box in settings and it’s snowing!

      Easily manage ALL your WP Sites

        Wow.

        There is a fairy-godmother after all, and her name is Vlad!

        I have a growing list of WordPress websites and it has been getting tedious updating each one of them and monitoring them, even with using a password manager to automatically login.

        Then along comes Vlad with a very cool tool.

         

         ManageWP is both a plugin (which authorises the software to centralise your sites) and a dashboard which not only shows an at-a-glance status of your sites but also has increased functionality. You can do bulk updates and upgrades, bulk posts and pages, and other activities including automated backups of your entire site – outstanding safety feature.

        And you never have to leave.

        From within the dashboard you can then step into any of yoru sites and do the usual stuff.

        This is a beta-model at the moment and so it’s use is temporarily free. Which is a good move on Vlad’s part because even after onlyRead More »Easily manage ALL your WP Sites

        14 Ideas to Write About on Your Blog

          There are times when you just sit in front of your keyboard and wonder ‘What the heck am I going to write about today?!?!?!?” Often we do that because we are looking for that one inspirational idea. Well, don’t wait for inspiration, that’s one of the causes of writer’s block (and empty blogs!) If you have a product or business blog then you’ll have lots of ideas on what to write about … product reviews, new products or services, case studies, how to use your product or services and so on. If you write a personal blog then you sometimes… Read More »14 Ideas to Write About on Your Blog