Four quick steps to make your WordPress site more secure

I got this question in my email box last week:

Hi Wendy,

I have a question about the Atahualpa theme and spam. I just saw a google alert for my blog, and there was a mysterious reference to, uh, I don’t want to get caught in your spam filter, but let’s just say there [...]

Free Teleclass April 26: Why WordPress?

I’ll take you from complete WordPress novice to understanding what WordPress can do for your business in one hour.

As I was planning for the two-week WordPress Swimming Lessons workshop I’m teaching in May, I realized that I know a lot of helpful information about WordPress basics.

So I put together a free [...]

Categories, Tags, what's the difference?

WordPress has a built-in ability to assign both categories and tags to your blog posts (but not pages — this is one of the important differences between posts and pages).

So, what exactly are categories? What are tags? What are they used for, and what’s the difference?

What categories and tags do for you [...]

WordPress Plugin: Broken Link Checker

Broken Link Checker is a tremendously useful plugin, one that I include with all my WordPress installs. It does exactly what its name suggests: Checks your blog posts and pages for broken links (automatically, in the background) and lets you fix them easily, without having to visit and edit each individual post.

How to [...]