Tag: blog-launch-guide

What is Unsplash? Unsplash posts 10 new Free, FREE, High Resolution photos that you can do anything with every 10 days. You will feel like a thief, like you’re stealing the photographs from the photographer – their images are that good… honestly, you will die (if you’re not turned into a zombie before you die). This…

A Terms of Service and Privacy Policy plugin – blahhhhhhhh… how exciting! We hate dealing with all of that junk too but this plugin makes your life a tonnnn (2,000 lbs.) easier and it’ll protect you from litigation (we’re not lawyers so we can’t guarantee this).   This plugin takes “a version of Automattic’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy,…

What have you done?!  You disabled all comments on your soon to be born beautiful blog!  Never fear, your knight in shining armor is here and that knights name is Facebook!  Now, you may or may not like Facebook, but their commenting plugin is pretty awesome.  It stops spam in its tracks by requiring real…

First off, MailChimp is a freakin awesome way to send email newsletters to different groups of subscribed users.  We use MailChimp exclusively in every website that we build.  Not only is the brand super cool, who doesn’t love a cute little monkey, the software is top-notch and even fun to use! We’re sure you’ve received an…

Yoast is one of the best WordPress plugins in existence. It allows you to get your site set up in a way that puts your best foot forward for search engines.  This is that fabled thing called SEO.  Have you heard of it?  Here’s a definition of SEO, straight from Wikipedia: Search engine optimization (SEO) is…

OMG, let’s have some fun now!!  This is where the magic starts to happen!  Can you believe how many steps there are just to build the foundation of an amazing WordPress website? In this step, we’re going to add WordPress Pages to your new website.  When you think of WordPress, you may automatically think of it…

Isn’t a header a move in soccer where you headbutt the soccer ball?  Why would I want to add a soccer headbutt to my website?  What the heck is a footer?  Is it when you footbutt a soccer ball?  Wow, I’ve never even heard of the word footbutt but it’s pretty darn funny sounding isn’t…

In this step, we’re feeling very meta, this post is about adding posts to your WordPress blog.  You’re going to learn about WordPress’ bread and butter. I’m sure that you know what a post is but, if not, it is what you are reading right now. A post is basically an article on a website or in…

It goes without saying, the homepage is pretty much always our favorite part of any website that we build.  It’s the face of your website.  It’s the main page. It’s the front door. It’s your billboard in the endless ether that is the internet. Whenever we start a new web project, we start with the homepage….

In this step, we’re going to help you create a beautiful gallery page for any images that you desire to share with your audience.  This is a way for you to showcase your personality, your originality, individuality and sentimentality in a way that is entirely lacking in banality.  Or, it is just a page to showcase…