Category Archives for "WordPress Tips"

How to update a WordPress Plugin

It is vital to keep your WordPress Plugins up to date. The reason that you want to keep your plugins updates is primarily due to security risks. Not all plugin updates are security updates, but developers often update security issues at the same time that they update features.I highly recommend that you update your plugins […]

Where Did My Blog Post Go?

Sometimes WordPress breaks. Yes, it is shocking but it happens. It isn’t anyones fault. It doesn’t mean WordPress sucks. Nope, it is just part of all of these moving pieces. Let’s remember that so much is involved in a site these days. We have the domain, the hosting, WordPress, WordPress themes, plugins and the internet. All […]

How To Add A Quick Navigation With Jump Links To Your WordPress Page

Scrolling down a long blog post can be annoying. Am I right? Scroll Scroll Ugh This is why having a quick navigation with jump links is a beautiful thing. This way if your reader wants to look up something specific on a webpage they can click on the link and the page automatically jumps to that location. Internal page […]

How To Add Beautiful Quotes To Your WordPress Content

Quotes can be a powerful way to add oomph to your writing. They can validate what you are expressing. Quotes can inspire and be used as motivation as well. No matter your reason for using quotes, making them stand out on your website is crucial. If you are using a quote in your writing, you want […]

How To Quickly Build A Landing Page In WordPress

The tech behind a landing page is actually the easy part. The difficult part of creating a landing page is actually deciding what should be on the page. In this tutorial you will learn how to easily create an awesome looking mobile responsive landing page in just a few minutes.What you need (besides WordPress): An […]

Thrive Leads Video Tutorial: How To Embed An Email Optin Form

Learn how to embed an email optin form directly into a WordPress blog post. In this tutorial you will learn how to create an opt-in form similar to the one below using Thrive Leads and self-hosted WordPress. Bonus Reading: Thrive Leads Tutorial: How To Change Opt-In Background Color Email marketing is a great way to […]

Thrive Content Builder Tutorial: How To Add Full Width Page Section

Are you creating landing pages for your business? This is something that I am doing more and more. The premium WordPress Plugin Thrive Content Builder makes it easy. In this tutorial, you will learn how to quickly and easily add a full width page section to your landing page. Adding a full width page section […]

Thrive Leads Tutorial: How To Change Opt-In Background Color

One of the advantages of using Thrive Leads to grow your email list is that you can easily change the look of the opt-in form without using code. Thrive Leads uses a what you see is what you get design feature. This means that it is easy to customize. It is easy to change your […]

How To Change The Order Of A Thrive Lead Optin

Are you trying to figure out why your Thrive Leads opt-in form isn’t showing up? It is possible that you need to set the order. Thrive Leads has what they call lead groups. Lead groups are lead by a hierarchy. Basically whichever one is on top is what will show up next. Check out this video […]

How To Add A Single Space In WordPress And Remove The Double Space

Have you ever been typing away in WordPress and suddenly realized that everything is double spaced? It is annoying! For the longest time I resolved this issue by heading to the html tab in WordPress and backspacing but there is an easier way. It isn’t perfect but at least there is a single space solution. When typing in […]

How To Add CSS TO A Thrive Theme

Over the weekend someone reached out asking how he could look at the CSS on his site. He wanted to know how to spy over his site and see the CSS. He is running Thrive Themes on a WordPress blog. I made him two training videos that are listed below. Thankfully, this is extremely easy to […]

How To Fix WordPress Visual Editor Missing Buttons

Are you missing some important buttons in WordPress? Perhaps you are editing a blog post and you realize that you don’t see the underline button or the button to change font color. If that is you, you will be thrilled to know that the solution is super simple. Of course, most solutions are super simple once […]

Thrive Content Builder Makes WordPress Faster

Bonus: Download a free checklist of the first plugins that I always install on a new WordPress Blog.  Is there anything better than reading a blog post on the toilet? Oh don’t act like you haven’t done it. Smartphones make life complicated, especially for a web developer and blogger. Yeah sure, they have some other downfalls as […]

How To Create A Killer Landing Page

I seriously want you to be on my mailing list and I am working hard to make you want to. How is that for flat out honesty? Designing opt-in forms and opt-in landing pages is easy because I use Thrive Content Builder and Thrive Leads. However, figuring out what the CTA and content should be is flat […]

WordPress Tutorial: How To Set A Home Page

Just the other day someone asked me, is this a blog or is this a website with a blog attached. This is a great question that doesn’t have a clear and direct answer. These days blog designs are becoming more and more sophisticated. As a result they look more and more like websites, at least on […]