New Improved StudioPress Genesis Information and Support Resource Search Engine

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Tweet Today I added to the website the Google Custom Search Engine I created a few weeks ago to be able to search intensively for support resources related to StudioPress’ Genesis Framework and child themes.  As you can guess the search uses Google’s platform. The reason for the new search is as StudioPress’ Genesis has [...]

How to use a WordPress website plus the new media and image galleries of WP 3.5

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Tweet This post includes a good video review of what is new in WordPress 3.5, but also includes videos showing how easy it is to use the standard WordPress website content management features we have known and loved for more than a few years. For those of us that are familiar with WordPress based websites, [...]

The 5 Best Free Genesis Child Themes of 2012

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Presented here are the five best free Genesis child themes I have found at the close of 2012. I wanted to explore what was available and what are some “in-the-wild” innovations. What I found is some free child themes are the equal or better of some of StudioPress’ own offerings or the StudioPress Community themes. It was a very pleasant surprise to find these free theme “treasures”. I hope that if you have any favorite free Genesis child themes you will add them in the comments.

Help, BluDomain transferred my site and now my WordPress doesn’t work

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Tweet Recently a BluDomain site owner asked for help because their WordPress based splash page, their WordPress blog and other content pages accompanying their BluDomain template were no longer working. Like many he used WordPress to enhance his search enging ppresence and market his services to prospective clients.  So the WordPress site elements were a  [...]

6 Essential tools you need installed on your PC to make your WordPress blog/website rock

6 essential WordPress website tools you need to install and use

Tweet This is a quick list of the tools I use everyday, even on simple setup installations of WordPress to make it look as good and work as well as possible. I recommend that even you are just setting up only one WordPress blog or website, even if only for your personal use, you need [...]

New WordPress based true mobile responsive website and blog for Black Studios Photography

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Tweet Just finished a new WordPress CMS based mobile responsive website for Black Studios Photography. Black Studios’ new website layout fully follows Google’s best practice/advice for mobile sites, is HTML5 and CSS3 feature ready, plus the best SEO. Take a look – http://blackstudios.com Or to see how a true mobile responsive site works across five [...]

Two great affordable premium display responsive Photo/Image Galleries for WordPress by TN3 and Raygun

Raygun Portfolio Slideshow and TN3 Gallery for WordPress Plugins

Tweet Raygun’s WordPress Portfolio Slideshow Pro and TN3′s Photo Gallery for WordPress plugins both offer a great way to give a WordPress based website state of the art attractive photo galleries with out the limitations of of other WP plugins, Flash galleries or other similar website platforms. Before  jumping into these two exciting WordPress image [...]

Two Favorite Free WordPress Photo Gallery Plugins (ones that you may not be aware of)

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Tweet For many years I used NextGen to create, manage and display photo galleries in WordPress. It was and is a very good gallery plugin. But then WordPress’ native image tools became much much better following the version 3.1 and subsequent updates. And I like being able keep all the images together in WordPress’ native [...]

WordPress Apps for Smartphones and Tablets Allow for Easy Website/Blog Posting and Management

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Tweet For us here in the northern hemisphere, it’s Spring and travel and vacation time will be increasing. And the time spent on your website for business or fun will be more difficult to manage. Fortunately if your site or blog is based on the WordPress CMS there is help. WordPress provides apps for your [...]

The best Pinterest pin button WordPress plugin

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Tweet I just wanted to share an outstanding WordPress plugin for helping your site visitors Pin your content to their Pinterest pin board.  Pinterest has become a social media phenom and invaluable referral resource to many small businesses.  I have added the code manually and have also used all the other Pinterest plugins in WordPress [...]