Posts by Glenys Grob

Part of your website housekeeping is that of making sure that you have backups just in case  something goes wrong, like a system failure or corrupt files or data loss or any number of other possibilities. It is always best to be safe now rather than sorry later.

A WordPress backup should be done on a regular basis and certainly every time you need to update WordPress to the latest version. (Make sure you do the backup before upgrading the WordPress version.) Once you get into the rhythm of doing your backups you will find it very straightforward. [Read more…]

You will eventually learn your way around the WordPress editor. However, it can save you a lot of time if someone points you in the right direction to start off with. Plus you might otherwise end up missing some nifty tools, in your rush to publish your next post. [Read more…]

By default, the date that a post has been published is usually displayed right under the title of the post as well as in the comments.

At first this might seem to be a really good idea but let’s examine why you might want to re-think this as an option. What happens when search engines display your listing in the search results?

That’s right, the publication date of your post is displayed before the description of your page content. The merits or otherwise of this fact are just a few of the issues to consider before deciding whether or not to display the date on your posts. [Read more…]

Everywhere you look,  people are talking about WordPress and of course creating websites using WordPress. There are many other options, naturally and I will be discussing a number of these in this blog. However, it is hard to look past the functionality that WordPress offers. And, don’t worry; if you a new to building websites, this WordPress Development Tutorial will guide you through it.

I have coded sites from scratch, I have used text editors, HTML editors and I have purchased WYSIWYG editors. But I find that it is much faster to get started with a website building environment like WordPress and I absolutely love all of the plugins that are available (most of them for free) to add the functionality that I am looking for. [Read more…]