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How to add a Splash Page in front of Your WordPress Blog
Sometimes it is not a good thing to unveil the curtain until the website is ready. This is not uncommon. A lot of companies put up a construction style splash page or a squeeze page in front of their website. This can sometimes be tricky when it comes to having the page appear as the default page in front of a CMS like WordPress.
However, have no fear, it is not time consuming to put a page in front of your WordPress blog. The task just requires a few configurations that have to be right in order for the site to display properly or the wrong page will display.
In this tutorial, we will go through these two steps. Continue reading
How to Remove the Comments from your WordPress Website
WordPress is becoming a very popular option for not only creating blogs, but now actual page driven websites as well. The downside to WordPress, at least right now, is that the comments box sits at the bottom of every page, because the software is still predominantly a blog management system. However, we have clients that want their website hosted in WordPress, but don’t want the option of comments available to their website visitors. This tutorial will show you how to remove comments from your WordPress website. Continue reading How to add a Dollar Sign ($) to prices in the RSForm Pro PayPal Plug-in
This may seem like a weird tutorial, but the people across the pond forget that in The United States & Canada, we like to see a dollar sign in front of our prices. Recently we had a client ask us to set up an event online registration form, and include multiple registration packages into the form. Our solution was to use RSForm Pro 1.3.0 Rev 40 with the PayPal Plug-in. So, we installed the software, created the form, added the plug-in, and formatted everything to perfection.
Except, the customer wanted to see a dollar sign in front of their prices. Not an unreasonable request, but a pain to find. That being said this tutorial was written to help people find the character string in front of the prices and add a “$”. A little tweak that would seem so simple, that it may be quite frustrating if you can’t find it. Continue reading
Top 5 Myths about Social Media
Social Media is today’s hottest form of inbound marketing. Any business that wants to compete in today’s market needs to have a social media action plan to keep up with their competitors. With everybody and their brother jumping on the social media bandwagon, there are 5 myths that need to be put to rest. These are:
If I build it, they will come…
Every internet marketer out there wishes that this was the case, but in actuality, this is not the case! Constant promotion on your social media platforms targeted towards your target audience is required to build your brand on social media. The key to social media is to provide quality content frequently to your followers, and more will come. Continue reading
How to Find New Blog Topics
Stuck in a rut? Do you need more topics to get your blog rolling again? Keeping content current and fresh on a blog is very important to keep your reader base. Everyone knows this, but the idea of constantly finding new topics to write about can sometimes be the difference between successful or unsuccessful blogs. If you have this problem than have no fear! Trying some of these ideas will help get the “creative blogging juices” flowing!
Review Your Old Posts
Going back and reviewing the topics you have written about in the past is a great starting point to come up with new ideas. It sounds like the antithesis of what you are looking for, but if you give your old posts some attention, you may find sub-topics you can cover in more detail, or at least remind yourself of the topics you are an expert at, which will give you a starting point. Continue reading
