Adding a new WordPress Post or Page

0 Posted on: October 26, 2011

WordPress Enter Title This is the sixth article of our Series: From Zero to WordPress Rockstar where we will fill our website with some content.

What are WordPress Posts and WordPress Pages?

WordPress Pages are single pages which don’t need to be in a Categorie but they can be. WordPress Pages can have a parent page, a custom template and have discussions but are not shown in your post order like a WordPress post.

WordPress Posts are … well posts. They must be assigned to a category, can contain tags, comments and custom fields. In most cases WordPress Posts are shown chronological.
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Creating a WordPress Custom Menu

0 Posted on: October 17, 2011

This is the fifth article of our Series: From Zero to WordPress Rockstar on how to create a WordPress Custom Menu.

What are WordPress Custom Menus?

In version 3.0 WordPress introduced the Custom Menu feature which provides an easy way to show a customized menu on our site. The easiest way to show the menu is by using the widget but it also can be placed on any place within the theme by inserting some code. WordPress Custom Menus can have Posts, Pages and custom links and also provides leveling support. Read more on Creating a WordPress Custom Menu

How to use WordPress Widgets

0 Posted on: October 14, 2011

This is the fourth article of our Series: From Zero to WordPress Rockstar where we will take a look at those so-called widgets and what you can do with them.

What are WordPress Widgets

WordPress comes with some standard widgets ready to use. Widgets are a way to place various elements to so-called Widget Areas, which basically are reserved spaces in your theme where you can add those widgets. Almost all modern themes come with at least one widget area which is, in most cases, called the Sidebar. If you can see the menu entry Widgets under Appearance then congratulations, you have a widget ready WordPress theme.

Customize WordPress – Add plugins and a new theme

0 Posted on: October 12, 2011

This is the third article of our Series: From Zero to WordPress Rockstar where we will customize our site with new plugins and a fresh look.

Why you should customize your WordPress site

WordPress comes with a lot of functionality and with a pretty good looking theme, so why should you customize it you may ask? Well, you should get a theme so your site doesn’t look like thousand of other sites out there. By doing this you are building your “brand” which in this case is your website and people will recognize it.

Even if a standard WordPress installation has a lot of functionality and basically everything you need to start a blog, you can do so much more with the right plugins or make your site better.

SEO friendly URL Structure

0 Posted on: October 10, 2011

This is the second article of our new Series: From Zero to WordPress Rockstar in which we will do a simple but yet very effective task for our WordPress site.

Why using SEO friendly URL Structure

WordPress has a built in option for SEO friendly URLS or how WordPress calls them: Permalinks.
Without permalinks enabled, a post on your WordPress powered site will look something like http://www.chlog.net/?p=615 (which, for example, is the non-permalink URL for this article).

Now with Permalinks enabled the URL to this post is http://www.chlog.net/wordpress/seo-friendly-url-structure/ just like you can see up in your adress bar right now. Now this is important because of two things actually. The first positive effect of this is for SEO reasons. Search engines have a text with keywords to be searched for instead of just a ?p= followed by numbers which is positive for your ranking in search engine. The second effect is that people probably can remember your URL, or at least they can see what it is about if your link is posted somewhere else.

How to Install WordPress within minutes

0 Posted on: October 9, 2011

This is the first article of our new Series: From Zero to WordPress Rockstar in which we will install WordPress on our webhost in a couple of minutes.

WordPress is one of the easiest web scripts to install and in this article I’ll show you it’s only a matter of minutes. However, what we will do here is just a really basic install of WordPress on our webspace, if you want to have know more about WordPress, you should read my article The ultimate WordPress beginners guide.

Before you dive into this, you probably want to check if your web hosting service has a one-click installation support for WordPress as a lot of web hosts have this option available. If not, don’t worry – it’s a really easy and fast process and if you follow me now, your WordPress installation will be ready in some minutes.

Series: From Zero to WordPress Rockstar

0 Posted on: October 9, 2011

In this article series i want you to get from Zero to a WordPress Rockstar. Even if i covered a lot of things in my article The Ultimate WordPress beginners guide there are far more things to know about WordPress. Topics in this series include the installation of WordPress, how to configure the basic functionality, how to install themes and plugins and how to use the new WordPress Menu feature. This article series will cover quite some posts, so make sure to check back for new articles in this series!

Earnings of 5 Blogs in September 2011

2 Posted on: October 7, 2011

Another month has passed and the 5 sites i monitor have published their numbers – except one - ineeddiscipline.com didn’t have the discipline this month to push out their numbers on the 1st like they normally do. When they do i will update this post. I’m very sorry i was actually not active on the blog for a whole month, but I just hat too much things going on. Anyways, let’s now look on how these websites performed this month

smartpassiveincome.com | $31,112.40 (+6.4%)

smartpassiveincome.com again had a really great month. There is a 6,4% raise even if Pat had spend some cash on traveling. Impressive!

Monthly Income Breakdown:

Products (eBooks): $3,629.40
Niche Site (SecurityGuardTrainingHQ.com): $1,585.50
Google Adsense: $421.24
Affiliate: $28,406.75
iPhone Apps: $2,549.53

Pat’s blog is a really informative one, in his earnings report for september, he tells you exactly how he earned his income.

Earnings of 5 blogs in August 2011

0 Posted on: September 8, 2011

Another month started and the blogs I’m watching all released their earnings for August. I have chosen the same blogs as last month, making it easy to see how they perform over time.

smartpassiveincome.com | $29,254.82 (+2.3%)

smartpassiveincome.com again had a really great month. Pat even earned 2.3% more than last month! Impressive!

Monthly Income Breakdown:

Products (eBooks): $3,423.40
Niche Site (SecurityGuardTrainingHQ.com): $1,498.39
Google Adsense: $393.63
Affiliate: $25,764.23
iPhone Apps: $2,954.75

Pat’s blog is a really informative one, in his earnings report for august, he tells you exactly how he earned his income.

5 easy ways to speed up your WordPress site

0 Posted on: August 20, 2011

WordPress is a very well developed piece of software, but with all the features it has, page loading times can be very slow. And this is bad, as google takes a look on the speed of a website, which means that faster websites may rank higher than slower ones and also you might loose some visitors who close your site because it needs too long to show up. Here I’ll show you 5 really easy ways to speed up your WordPress powered site. While the first 4 do not require you to have any skills, the last will need you to make images – or better take images and combine them to one big image – and edit your CSS file.

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