What is a Theme?

All WordPress websites are built on a theme.  A theme can be one that you purchase, or one that is custom written by a developer. A theme is a “collection’ of files make your pages look different.  These files are templates and styles. Themes can come with many options that you can select easily. For…

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What is a WordPress Plugin?

Plugins can be the fun part of WordPress. WordPress has some functionality out of the box, but not a ton. Do you want a calendar on your website?  A special photo gallery that is easy to manage and display?  Do you want to add an online form for people to fill out? Do you want…

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WordPress, WooCommerce, SSL on a Load Balancer…

Today we started the process of moving Buy Area Rug Pads and Only Mohawk Rug pads sites which are WordPress Woocommerce websites (which of course require and SSL certificate) to a new hosting service with Rackspace.  We set up our new hosting, Cloud Server, to use load balancers in front of the server to do…

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How to Use your iPhone to Post to a WordPress Blog

Most owners of websites want to blog but can’t find the time, energy or content.  Is this you? I work with many business owners who have a self-hosted WordPress installation, and who are gung-ho about adding a blog to their website.  We set up the blog area, they write a few posts, and then they…

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