Moving a WordPress Site to a New Host and Domain – WpSiteBuilding.com

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I decided to move this WordPress website from the "old" subdomain (www.hummerbie.com) to a new domain and hosting company. The main reason I moved is because I was unhappy with the hosting provider of the main site. Recently they moved to faster servers and a better internet backbone, but after … [Read more...]

Getting More WordPress Site Building in.

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This website is primarily focused on how you can setup CMS Options and special plugins to get a static website view using WordPress. I also write about magazine style and news style themes, and how you should change your WordPress Themes to get a less dated site. I've recently realized that … [Read more...]

A new Classic for WordPress website themes – Magazine by StudioPress Brain Gardner

WordPress Magazine Theme from StudioPress

Brian Gardner is showing off the redesign of his Magazine Theme, which is already a classic. If you look at the new features in the header, you can see why this is going to be a great theme to use for Building a website with WordPress. The tabs at the top are great for extra pages, and the … [Read more...]

From Revolution to Mimbo to Thesis, My choice of WordPress Themes

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In my previous post I told you that the theme for this site was going to be Mimbo, which I still think is a great theme. But alas, I have switched...again. And there is good reason for that switch... I bought The Thesis theme. Not only did I buy the Thesis theme, I also bought the developer … [Read more...]

Changing my WordPress Theme to Mimbo

WordPress Theme Revolution Blue

I have used two different themes on this site now.  The first was Cutline and the second was Revolution Blue. Both are very good themes and come well-equipped for a Search Engine Optimized website. Still, I wanted to have a more Magazine-like template. After looking for one that was … [Read more...]

WordPress 2.7 and Flash 10 problems

This website is now on a full new WordPress 2.7 platform and all plugins are updated to the latest release. I am now really happy with my new laptop an HP Mobile Workstation  which runs on Windows XP. I is really fast on for my kind of work a real workhorse! But the main reason why I am so … [Read more...]

Site Upgrade to WP 2.7

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I just upgraded this WordPress website to version 2.7. release candidate 1 and it works just fine. There was just one Plugin, the Category Folding plugin that I needed to deactivate, maybe there will be an update for that in the near future. One other thing I am looking at is to change the … [Read more...]

Why You Should Not Use Magazine WordPress Themes for Customers

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I was just thinking about this project of Building a Website with WordPress and the use of a Magazine Style Theme. As I was working on the manual for the use of that special kind of themes, I suddenly realized that the whole project was not going to work.... You see, if you have a customer … [Read more...]

Taking the WordPress CMS Website one step further

I have been working on this site to provide information on how to build a static website with WordPress. The Theme I used was Cutline 1.x, but I wanted a better layout more like a magazine. And now I have found one of the best free ones, although I like the other Revolution that Brain Garder … [Read more...]

Finding the Right WordPress Pages Ordering Plugin

Running a WordPress Based website produces a Lot of Pages. But WordPress does not allow you to assign Pages to Categories, But this might be a great function to reduce the number of Links in your Page Menu. So currently I am looking at the new Plugins from Andy Staines who creates some great … [Read more...]