Time Magazine has been around for over 85 years and is still alive and kicking today. While not as prestigious as their signature “Person of the Year” title, they also publish their opinions on the best blogs of the year. In the Best Blogs of 2010, several sites you may have heard of may the list:Tech Crunch (Essential Blogs) Engadget Mashable...

If you host your own WordPress blog, it is important to make sure you have the latest security updates installed and also to make sure you maintain a fairly tidy backend. The reason is simple: performance and data integrity. For a few plugins that can help with this, check out this article. Outside of the automatic update and backup (very cool), these plugins...

If you have a blog, you have probably gathered that posting consistently and predictably is very important for maintaining your reader base. To help accomplish this, one thing you can do is schedule your posts to publish at a specific time. Even though you may enter several different posts at once, they will not become available on your site until the time you...

There is an old saying: “If you build it, they will come”. Well, that is just plain NOT TRUE when it comes to a website. It takes work to get people to your website. The good news is that a blog is an ideal platform for promoting and, just by having a blog, you’re already on your way. In this video, I’ll give you 10 tips to start driving...

Simply put: You’re going to want some plug-ins on your blog. A plug-in is your way to extend the functionality of WordPress beyond that it can do “out of the box”. Plug-ins are what make WordPress such an awesome platform to run your website on. In this video, I’ll show you how to install a plug-in. I will also present you 10 plug-ins...

OK, time to get a bit more technical. In order to customize your WordPress theme, you will need to understand enough PHP to do a few basic things. WordPress (and the themes it uses) are entirely based on the PHP scripting language. In this video, I will show you some basic PHP – concentrating on those concepts you’ll need most often in your WordPress...

In order to make any changes to your WordPress theme, you’re going to need to understand the basic structure of your theme. In this video, I will show you how your theme is put together and which file goes to what. Video Length: 10:42 [hidepost=1] [flv:http://pcmech.s3.amazonaws.com/wordpress/wordpress8.flv 610 366] [/hidepost] [hidepost=2] Download Now To...

Permalinks are the structure of the web addresses used to access pages and posts on your blog. It is usually best to modify these from the default for search engine purposes. In this video, I’ll show you how to do that. Video Length: 8:18 [hidepost=1] [flv:http://pcmech.s3.amazonaws.com/wordpress/wordpress7.flv 610 366] [/hidepost] [hidepost=2] Download...

Craigslist has long been known as the free place (in most locales) to post your ads for whatever – stuff, relationships, services, whatever. I have used Craigslist several times and it always surprises me how this extremely CRAPPY looking website performs so well. For example, I have (several times) posted job openings on just the Tampa section on...