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The Best Online Form Builder for Accepting Payments is …

Posted on April 24, 2013 by wpguide | 1 Comments

Website forms are a great way to gather information from your visitors. But what if you wanted to start accepting payments using online forms on your WordPress site? Things become more expensive once you start accepting payments on your forms as these transactions cost more to support. Once you start accepting payments with your web forms, I suggest looking for…

Locking Down and Securing Your WordPress Login Page

Posted on April 16, 2013 by wpguide | 0 Comments

There’s a severe bot-net attack going on right now that is putting many WordPress sites at risk of being exploited. Some bots are SEO bots looking to drop links in your content, while others want to plant malware / MySQL database injections / backdoor Trojans on your site. Because these attacks are originating from home computers, there’s really no way…

InfiniteWP: Installing Your Plugins and Themes as Favorites

Posted on April 16, 2013 by wpguide | 0 Comments

InfiniteWP allows you to set plugins and themes in the WordPress repository as favorites quite easily. If you want to add premium WordPress themes and plugins to your InfiniteWP panel that are outside the repository, there is a way you can add them to your “My Favorites” tab. We’ll also go over how to upload a premium theme or plugin…

How To Start A WordPress Blog Over From Scratch

Posted on March 12, 2013 by wpguide | 0 Comments

Let’s say you have a WordPress site that has a bloated database and you want a fresh start. In addition, let’s say that you’ve installed some plugins that leave lots of entries in the WordPress database (Yet Another Related Post, for example) and you want to swap out your old plugins for some new plugins in your fresh installation. Using…

Clicky Vs. Google Analytics Vs. Piwik (video)

Posted on March 7, 2013 by wpguide | 2 Comments

The following is a free webinar that is conducted by one of the people behind the SEO service DripFeedBlasts. He goes over how to setup goals across 3 different analytics services (Google Analytics, Clicky & Piwik). He also covers some basic ways to track incoming visitors, to make sense of where your traffic comes from, and to find easy opportunities…

Is There A Plugin That Rotates Ads Randomly In The Sidebar?

Posted on March 6, 2013 by wpguide | 0 Comments

If you want to test which offers will bring you the most money, then it’s a good idea to randomly rotate your ads. You can throw up a few different offers as 250 x 250 graphical banners and have them rotate in your sidebar randomly on each page load. Here are three different ways to rotate ads in WordPress –…

Typical CloudFlare Hosting Problems

Posted on March 5, 2013 by wpguide | 0 Comments

CloudFlare can be a useful option if you have a busy site that uses lots of resources. You can off-load some of your traffic to CloudFlare’s CDN, which could be a life saver for forums and other busy sites. Your host needs to have certain elements configured on your server to really benefit from CloudFlare though. Make Sure Your Host…

Which Jetpack Modules Should I Disable?

Posted on March 1, 2013 by wpguide | 0 Comments

Jetpack combines multiple goodies for your WordPress site all in one plugin and it’s developed by the team behind WordPress itself, Automattic. There’s so many reasons to get this plugin, and most people will want Jetpack for a couple features (I wanted stats and improved comments). The question becomes what modules should you enable and disable in this huge Jetpack…

BackupBuddy vs. InfiniteWP vs. ManageWP for WordPress Backups

Posted on February 27, 2013 by wpguide | 1 Comments

One of the benefits of InfiniteWP is that you download and control the panel. To run it locally on your Mac, you’ll need a database installed: http://dev.mysql.com/. Most people will install InfiniteWP remotely on a VPS. InfiniteWP’s model is free core with paid addons. You will need the “Schedule Backups” addon to auto-backup your sites on a schedule, and you…

Hiding the Dates on Older WordPress Posts

Posted on February 12, 2013 by wpguide | 0 Comments

Question:I’ve noticed that when I browse a search results page, I am biased against older results. Most of the time, a post that is dated from years ago doesn’t seem like it would have up to date and relevant information. So how would I go about hiding the date on search engine results pages (SERPs) for my own blog in…