There may come a time where you hire additional editors to contribute to your WordPress website or you simply want to give someone access to your account for maintenance or support purposes. In this guide I will show you how to create an additional user account in the latest version of WordPress. Note: Depending on…Continue Reading
In order to install WordPress, Joomla, Drupal or any other dynamic content management system (CMS) you must first have a couple of things ready. First, you need a web host that will host your files on the web, second you will need a domain name (www.yoursite.com) and third you will need a MySQL database. This…Continue Reading
Unless you left one of the Meta widgets enabled on your WordPress website you will probably have a hard time signing on to your site if you have never done it before. The Meta widget I’m referring to is one of the default widgets that you will find on the sidebar in a default WordPress…Continue Reading
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could test new plug-ins or a new design without ever touching your Live WordPress installation? Sure, you can create a mirror of your site on a test.yourdomain address, but why run the risk of crashing the server hosting your website if one of the plugins you are testing goes…Continue Reading
In the latest release of the WordPress app for the iPhone, the folks at Automattic added the ability for WordPress users to upload videos from their iPhone’s. The option allows users to upload existing videos or new videos shot from the application. Videos are automatically compressed before they are uploaded to your WordPress blog. The…Continue Reading
What if I told you that you could write posts, edit pages, upload videos, and manage your WordPress comments all from your iPhone? You would probably agree that it sounds like a very powerful app and it is. The WordPress App for the iPhone from the same folks that bring us WordPress.com and WordPress.org are…Continue Reading
Now that you’ve picked out a domain and hosting plan for your website the next thing you need to do is actually access the server. In order to access the server you will need to have your user name and password as well as a FTP program to connect to the server. In the guide…Continue Reading
I would have never thought that I would get so many tech connections and observations during a recent road trip. Tech is truly all around us and even running down the interstate it was very apparent that many things are changing on the tech landscape.
Although WordPress is an amazing blogging platform it does not allow for the creation of posts while offline. Fortunately there are several applications that will allow you to create or edit posts while you are offline. Word 2010 just happens to be one of those applications. Before you can create posts offline you will need…Continue Reading
Have you ever wanted more control over the formatting of a blog post? You can accomplish this by using applications like Word, Windows Live Writer, and others. However before you can use any of these applications to publish to WordPress you will need to enable remote publishing using XML-RPC within WordPress. The how-to below will…Continue Reading
If you’re using WordPress as your blog’s publishing platform and you have yet to enable Turbo, you’re missing out."The speed increase is most noticeable when Internet is slow or on high latency and makes everybody’s blogging experience more enjoyable." When enabled, Turbo essentially uses a local copy of the admin area of your WordPress installation…Continue Reading
If you’re building up an extensive collection of movies in the new Blu-ray format, chances are that you’ve spent a couple of bucks putting it together. To help protect that small fortune that you call a movie collection, there are a couple of apps out there that will help you backup these discs so that…Continue Reading
If you are looking for a quick, easy and FREE method to convert your favorite movies and TV shows to a format you can take with you anywhere, you need to check out BDlot Video Converter. BDlot Video Converter is part of a greater suite of applications that allows you to convert videos to any…Continue Reading
With the imminent launch of iOS 5 for the iPhone and the iPad, Apple is moving forward with its new music offering for iTunes, Match. iTunes Match stores your entire music library in iCloud (another new service from Apple debuting this fall). When you store your music in iCloud you can access it from anywhere…Continue Reading
One of the settings I always enjoyed in Outlook is the ability to customize work hours so that my available time (work time) would appear on the calendar as a reminder not to schedule anything past a certain time. Google has taken this concept event further and now allows users to hide those morning and…Continue Reading
Just the other day I needed to print a monthly calendar in Mac OS X and realized that I had never done it before. When I opened the print dialog box I was amazed at the number of options available to print a calendar in iCal. So I decided to write this guide to help…Continue Reading
Have you ever found yourself looking for a particular set of files that are either named similarly or are of the same file type? Rather than perform a search in Mac OS to locate these files each time you want to access them, you have the option of creating a Smart Folder to simplify this…Continue Reading
