Archive: May, 2009

How to find and install other than default themes in WordPress

Starting with WordPress 2.8, users will be able to install WordPress themes out of the official repository with one click. This may sound nice but why limit your chances of styling your blog in a unique and individual way? The WordPress theme directory isn’t very big compared to the millions of users. There are about [...]

How to start your self-hosted WordPress Blog

Starting your own blog based on WordPress is NO. BIG. DEAL. Don’t hesitate because you don’t know anything about WordPress, installation, web hosts, themes or functions. You’ll learn it all very quickly! First of all, your self-hosted WordPress blog is your own blog. There is never a need to worry about being controlled by or [...]

How to replace the default header with an image

During their individual theme customization, many users would like to use an image (logo, photo etc) instead of the default blog title and description you can also see here at TheBuckmaker. Actually this is no big deal – just follow these instructions – they are the same for all themes made by TheBuckmaker: Get an [...]

Twitter: Personal Versus Professional Tweets

So, you have decided that you are going to tweet your blog posts in order to drive some more traffic. That’s great, now before you being tweeting you have only one decision left to make. Will you be using your own personal Twitter account or will you start a separate account for your site? It [...]

Twitter and blogging: Should I Tweet My Blog Posts?

When a new site is starting up one of the potential methods of getting traffic is Twitter. Of course, before you go off tweeting each of your posts there are some things you should consider. Is your subject matter appropriate for general audiences? Here we are talking about age. Is your content going to cause [...]

How to Choose a Niche for Your Site

In an earlier post we took a look at what exactly a niche is, and how you should define what a niche is. Now, it is time to show you how you can figure out what your sites niche is going to be. At first this may seem like it is an easy task, but [...]

Do I need a Web Hosting plan for my own WordPress Blog?

Basically you don’t need Web Hosting for your own WordPress Blog. There are dozens of providers, which give you the opportunity to run your WordPress Blog without your own Web Hosting solution. This has some advantages like it is easy to set up and to use, but there are a lot of disadvantages too: designs [...]

How to find the best Web Hosting provider?

Web Hosting has become one of the most expanding trading areas in the last few years. As in every other industry there are good and less good providers of Web Hosting solutions. So before you buy some web space you’ll have to compare products and prices to find a proper working and reliable solution in [...]

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