Burn Your WordPress RSS Feed At FeedBurner
Although your WordPress blog has a built-in RSS feed you may want to enhance it with FeedBurner. Here is an older how-to guide on burning your RSS feed with FeedBurner. From what I can tell it is still very much the sme as it was back when the post was mad originally.
Adding WordPress Plugins From The Dashboard
WordPress plugins add features to or enhance the functionality of your WordPress blog. There is now an easy way to install WordPress plugins directly from within the WordPress dashboard.
Install WordPress Plugins From Dashboard
WordPress certainly has evolved over the past few years and version 2.7 has some drastic changes in the dashboard interface as well as additional functionality. Additions like built-in automatic upgrade and the ability to add plugins directly from the WordPress dashboard continue to make it easier for all to maximize WordPress.
Checking WordPress Stats In The Dashboard
Statistics for websites can be helpful to give some insight as to what you are doing right, and what your readers like about your site. WordPress is no different and if you have the WordPress Stats plugin installed you can see a quick snapshot of your WordPress blogs stats on your blogs main dashboard.
WordPress Visual Editor Has Disappeared Or Isn’t Working
Has your WordPress visual editor stopped working? There are two quick settings to check if this has happened to your WordPress blog.
WordPress Plugin Updates Not Working
Have you recently upgraded your WordPress blog and found that you can no longer automatically upgrade your plugins? There can be many different reasons for upgrade plugins not to work but here are two plugins to check for if you recently upgraded to WordPress version 2.7.
WordPress Plugins How Many Are Too Many
How many WordPress Plugins should I be using?
If you spend any time at all on blogging related forums this question comes up quite often. Just as often as the question comes up so to are the various different answers. After just going through a major headache of a nightmarish WordPress upgrade for a client I have came up with my own opinion on the subject.
Utilizing The Flexibility Of WordPress Links Categories
Learning more about the ability and flexibility of WordPress can really help to improve the functionality of your WordPress site. The Links and Link Categories panels or sub menus can be used beyond the intended purpose of just adding links to the sidebar. In fact with the addition of a simple WordPress plugin the WordPress links sidebar widget can not only be split into separate categories but each link category can be placed anywhere on any sidebar.
How To Add WordPress Themes From The Dashboard
The first thing many new WordPress bloggers want to do is change the theme of their new WordPress blog. Heck some even ask me how it is going to look before I even install WordPress for them and some even want it customized before getting started. But before you start trying to “pimp your blog” I suggest you try several different themes and see how they work and look for a while. Once you are settled on a theme then get that custom header made and installed, and learn how to tweak it over time. Here is a guide to show you how to use the One Click Plugin Updater to install new themes right from the WordPress dashboard.
WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin Problems
As many know there is a WordPress Plugin for automatically upgrading WordPress. I have recently used it on one of my test blogs with no issues. But I have experienced issues using it for a client.
