How to install a WordPress plugin (Ask a Web Coach Wednesday)

One of the beautiful things about WordPress is its flexibility and extendability. The basic engine does quite a lot already, and does it well. But it doesn’t do everything.

Fortunately, we have plugins for the “everything else” part.

A plugin is simply a piece of software code that adds a function to WordPress. Makes it capable of [...]

How to change "posted by admin" in WordPress

All right, you’ve got your shiny new WordPress blog installed, and you’re ready to start writing. Congratulations!

You want to start getting your name and your Awesome Stuff out there. But you notice that when you write a post (or even when you check out the “dummy post” that WordPress gives you, called “Hello World!”), the [...]

How to forward one domain to another using GoDaddy (Ask a Web Coach Wednesday)

I recently received this question via email:

“I bought two domain names, and I want both of them to point to the same place (I want to use one of them, and have anyone who visits the second one automatically go to the first one). How do I do this?”

Turns out, I needed to do this [...]

How to point your GoDaddy-registered domain to your DreamHost account (Ask a Web Coach Wednesday)

So you’ve got a shiny new domain name registered at GoDaddy (or maybe you’ve had it languishing there for awhile… I won’t tell, I promise!).

Now you want me to install WordPress at your shiny new DreamHost account.

How do you get GoDaddy to play nice with DreamHost?

There’s just one little-bitty change you need to make inside [...]