WordPress Speed and Optimization Guide

The WordPress self-hosted blogging platform is notorious for eating up server resources.

This post outlines some methods I have employed to help,

- reduce WordPress CPU usage
- speed up WordPress
- optimize WordPress

What Would You Score Your Blog Posts Out of 100?

Building on the incredible success of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog, the Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers provides a system to score your blog posts out of 100 and improve their quality.

The Small Business Guide to Crowdsourcing a Design Project

For the first 6 months of my blog’s life I didn’t have a logo.. I just used its title “The Social Media Guide”. As time went on, it got to a point where I wanted to take my blog to a different level.

To achieve that, one of the first things I needed was a logo..

How to Upgrade your WordPress Theme to a Newer Version

Often upgrading to the latest version of your WordPress theme can be a little daunting (if you haven’t done it before), as there are a few factors to consider. It isn’t as easy as uploading the latest version to your webserver, especially if you have done a fair bit of customisation to your blog. All [...]

Yamidoo Magazine – Premium WordPress Theme Review

Premium WordPress themes have that extra polish required to take your site to a more professional level.

I get quite a few emails by people asking me about the theme The Social Media Guide uses.. so here is a behind-the-scenes look at my theme – Yamidoo Magazine by WPZoom.

How to Add a Facebook Like Button to Your Website

Facebook have now made it even easier to integrate social plugins to your website or blog.. all you need to do is paste in a single line of HTML code and your site will be Facebook ready.

Social Media and Social Network Icons

The Social Network icon pack created by Komodo Media is a collection of over 130 stunning social media and social network icons. This pack consists of 16 x 16 pixel and 32 x 32 pixel icons.. all in 32 bit PNG format. Perfect for use on your website, blog or resume. I have found this [...]

How to Speed Up your Website with GZip Compression

It is extremely easy to speed up your website using gzip compression. What is gzip compression? Basically, gzip compression is when your webserver compresses your web pages, then sends these zipped files across the internet to whoever is viewing your website. This person’s browser then automatically uncompresses these files. This zipping and unzipping process happens [...]