On your first login to WordPress you’ll notice several boxes on the admin dashboard. They should be aligned in two rows and include items like Right Now, Quick Press, Recent Comments, Incoming Links, etc. First off, look in the top right of the dashboad for a Screen Options tab. This is a dropdown and you [...]

If you’ve upgraded to WordPress 3.0 and are using a compatible theme, you’re probably ready to learn about the custom menu for WordPress 3.0 sites! This feature is one of my favorites from the latest release of the WordPress platform. If you haven’t yet figured it out, check out this tutorial for WordPress Custom Menus. [...]

Today I had a couching session with a member of the Guru Blogging Bluprint team. They asked what I want to do, business wise, and I said, help you, my readers. I get sooo many WordPress questions via email, Skype, and Twitter. I know that people have WordPress questions and I’d like to create a [...]

Newer bloggers can use the ‘upgrade automatically’ link in their dashboards to upgrade WordPress, but what happens when you have an older site with a version of WordPress that doesn’t allow for automatic upgrade? To upgrade WordPress from older versions, deactivate all your plugins and revert to the default theme. Download and extract all the [...]