Archive for July, 2008

Don't Miss The Next Wizard Weekly

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 cathy 4 Comments »
Tomorrow's Wizard Weekly teleseminar is one you must not miss.  I've heard a lot of mis-information about RSS, FeedBurner, and WordPress lately.  Tomorrow you will get the straight scoop on what's what in the world of FeedBurner, RSS, and WordPress.  Sign up just to the right of this post to get all the juicy dial-in [...]

WordPress Themes Has A New Home

Sunday, July 20th, 2008 cathy 10 Comments »
The WordPress Themes repository has a new home.  While themes.wordpress.net is still there, it is no longer active.  The new theme directory is at wordpress.org/extend/themes/ which is where you also find the plugins directory, the forums, the WordPress blog and everything else related to WordPress. This is a good move for WordPress.  They are slowly but [...]

The WordPress Wizard's New Blogging Course

Friday, July 18th, 2008 cathy No Comments »
It's almost here - Blogging With WordPress in a Web 2.0 World! Registration will be opening soon but in the meantime, go to WordPress2.0 to get notified when registration opens as well as getting a few free goodies just for being interested. This is going to be a great class.  More details will be released over [...]

Articles: What do they have to do with blogging?

Saturday, July 12th, 2008 cathy No Comments »
In a word - gobs!  Articles and blogs go hand in hand.  You can drive traffic to your blog through your articles.  You can repurpose articles into several blog posts.  You can take several similar topic blog posts and craft an article from them. My friend, Jeff Herring, over at The Great Article Marketing Blog has [...]

Promised Links from The Wizard Weekly

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 cathy No Comments »
Here are the links I promised on the Wizard Weekly call. Dean's FCKEditor - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fckeditor-for-wordpress-plugin/ I know I said GoDaddy is the one with MCE problems but what I read was that it is 'primarily' GoDaddy.  One of our listeners had the same MCE problem and he is NOT on GoDaddy.  So - if you lose your editing [...]

Google's New Keyword Tool - Help for WordPress Blogs?

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 cathy No Comments »
So, Google has a new keyword tool out today and the blogosphere is all a'twitter over it.  I've messed around with it for a few minutes and I like the keyword part of the tool but haven't gotten much in the way of usable results from the site url part of the tool As with all [...]

WordPress Mission Control Now Available

Monday, July 7th, 2008 cathy No Comments »
The WordPress Dashboard - Your Mission Control is now available as a home study course.  Learn all about how to work in your admin area (the dashboard) and go at your own pace.  Check it out at http://www.WordPressMissionControl.com You'll be glad you did!

Back From The Dark Side

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 cathy No Comments »
We successfully went to and returned from the Dark Side - the WordPress Database. Yesterday's Wizard Weekly call was about the little known about but very important WordPress Database.  We had some excellent comments and questions that time did not allow to answer so I will answer them a few at a time here. 1.  I wonder: [...]

TheWordPress Database - A Trip to The Dark Side

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 cathy 3 Comments »
Have you ever wondered what the WordPress database is?  What does it do?  Where does it live?  What's in there?  You now have a chance to go inside the database with me and learn about it in everyday English - NO TECH SPEAK. Please join me tomorrow on The Wizard Weekly.  Sign up just to the [...]