Summary WordPress has grown in complexity along with the themes and plugins it relies on. For this reason it's important to have the latest updates including recent updates to PHP. This week WordPress 5.1 was released with several performance upgrades. Keeping all aspects of WordPress updated will help make your site faster and more secure. … Continue reading Here’s how to increase the speed and security of your WordPress website…
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Visual Guide – How to create an additional free WordPress.com website
The visual guide below is for those who have setup a WordPress.com account and completed the initial steps to create their first free WordPress.com website.
Getting Started With WordPress.com Hosting
Introduction The following instructions assume you don't have a website yet, and haven't registered a domain name. However, these instructions are also helpful for someone with a self-hosted WordPress website wanting to use the JetPack plugins suite -- which requires a WordPress.com user account. Keep these instructions open in a window as you go through … Continue reading Getting Started With WordPress.com Hosting
Time Magazine Hosted by WordPress.com
At a cost of $18 per year, WordPress.com hosting is often viewed as a simplistic hosting service for people on a budget. However, because the service is scalable, even larger organizations and businesses use their hosting services. The business and VIP hosting services offer more space and advanced services. Basic business hosting is $200 per … Continue reading Time Magazine Hosted by WordPress.com
WordPress.com Twenty Fourteen Theme – Disable Hyphenation
Overview Automatic hyphenation is enabled by default for the Twenty Fourteen WordPress Theme for WordPress.com hosted websites. If you've paid for the ability to customize your website ($30 a year), it's possible to disable this feature in the CSS Customization window. If you're self hosting, then you can add the JetPack plug-in and connect it … Continue reading WordPress.com Twenty Fourteen Theme – Disable Hyphenation
WordPress.com to WordPress.org Website Migration Tips
Summary This page provides a brief introduction to WordPress.com and WordPress.org (self hosted) options for hosting a website. Then below instructions are provided for migrating from WordPress.com hosting to WordPress.org with a self-hosting provider. WordPress.com Hosting Some websites are anticipated to be well served, indefinitely, by the WordPress.com hosting package that costs $18 per year. … Continue reading WordPress.com to WordPress.org Website Migration Tips
WordPress.com User Roles: Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, Follower, Viewer
User roles determine the access level or permissions of a person authorized (invited by an Administrator) to use a WordPress.com site.SummaryAdministrator – nothing is off limitsEditor – has access to all posts, pages, comments, categories, tags, and links.Author – can write, upload photos to, edit, and publish their own posts.Contributor – has no publishing or uploading capability, but can … Continue reading WordPress.com User Roles: Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, Follower, Viewer
WordPress.com Momentary Outage on 15 April 2014
A momentary outage was observed with WordPress.com and websites hosted through their service. For a few minutes, the site was unavailable. This may be related to some updating that's been done recently across the entire WordPress platform (including self hosted sites). In recent days self hosted sites are being updated automatically to version 3.8.3 to … Continue reading WordPress.com Momentary Outage on 15 April 2014
WordPress.com Twenty Fourteen Theme Facebook Like Box Widget Optimal Settings
If you're using the Twenty Fourteen theme hosted by WordPress.com and would like to use the Facebook Like Box widget, the following settings seem to work best. Placement: Content Sidebar (the wide right column area) Width: 300px Height: 290px Color Scheme: Light Show Faces: checked Show Border: checked The above settings produce a Facebook Like … Continue reading WordPress.com Twenty Fourteen Theme Facebook Like Box Widget Optimal Settings
Creating an $18 Per Year Website Using WordPress
When creating an $18 per year website using WordPress, the initial step can be a little confusing for first-time users. Below is a screen snapshot showing a bit more about what your options are. Here are the steps you can use to get started. Signup Page. Go to the WordPress.com Signup Page shown below (click … Continue reading Creating an $18 Per Year Website Using WordPress