Help! Can’t log in to WordPress!
It burns, it burns! There could be a number of reasons for it. As a rule of thumb, the WordPress Login Screen is always at http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin or if you’ve installed WordPress in a subfolder it’ll be http://yourdomain.com/subfolder/wp-admin If you get a White Screen of Death instead of the login screen then you have a plugin or theme failure – which means a lot of work…but I can always help you rectify this should you ever find yourself staring at a blank screen. Raise a Support Ticket and we’ll work...
read moreAffiliate Marketing
I must be honest here: making money out of affiliate marketing is a huge challenge as it’s technically very easy to do, so a lot of people are doing it. Many of them have been doing it for many years so the market is very competitive. It works best if you write about products honestly, and often, and spread word of your posts with every weapon in the arsenal. It will also require you to sign up with many Affiliate Schemes such as Affiliate Window Linkshare eBay Partner Network Amazon Affiliates Clickbank Shareasale and countless private...
read moreDynamically forming groups of users in WordPress
There’s a plugin called WordPress eMember that may help you out there. You can setup user roles like you want and it will protect certain content areas from non-logged in members. It’s very flexible in the way it controls access too: either a whole sub-directory, the entire domain, parts of posts / pages or comments can be protected using shortcodes. I believe it has an option to import a list of users into the database. Would you set your users up manually or would you like to charge for membership access? Because if you do then...
read moreWoo Theme `Simplicity’ – how to change the footer colour to match the site colour
There should be an option for your Theme’s Settings, it’s probably called Simplicity. The first tab there is called Theme Options. At the very bottom of the page is a box for Custom CSS like this: Add the following code in the box to change the footer to white: #footer-widgets-container {background: #fff} #footer-container {background: #fff} Then save your changes and have a look. Usually I test these things out on my site before I give advice such things but in this case I haven’t got the core files to make sure it...
read moreYou know your stuff
Belated thanks jay! I had a mini break is my response 🙂 but had a quick read…yup you know your stuff….thanks Gargi X
read moreSEO and Keywords
Search engine optimisation (or SEO for short) is a dark art – the Googles of this world apply constantly evolving algorithms to tell their users “what’s hot”. I’m not an expert on this, but I can give you some quick pointers: Firstly there are keywords and descriptions you can use. These are only visible to search engines so they’re hidden in the code. Have a look at the free All In One SEO plugin which gives you options for ever post and page, as well as your entire site. This plugin will generate such...
read moreHow to sell an Ebook for immediate download via PayPal
So you’ve written an Ebook and would like to sell it via your website. That’s a great idea! How to do this you ask? You’re not alone – selling private Ebooks is something many people do so there are very good tools that do the job for you, and integrate nicely into your WordPress site. The process works as follows: customer pays for your Ebook your shopping cart software acknowledges this and provides a secure link that’s only valid for a set period of time customer downloads the Ebook and enjoys it download link...
read moreHow to generate an email list of followers
Most people use a campaign manager for generating an email list of followers. Mailchimp, Aweber, ConstantContact and GetResponse are such tools. Depending on the amount of people you have on your list you have to pay a monthly fee to these services, but they allow you to add a bit of code on your website where people can sign up to you. In a welcome email you can configure a link to a freebie – that’s how you can give something away when people sign up. As for emails on your own domain, they usually work as a redirect. Assuming...
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