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Temenos of the Blessing Light

I’m always thrilled when I’m asked to do a custom WordPress design, and this summer, I had the privilege to do one for my good friend, Deborah Weber, on her site, Temenos of the Blessing Light. Before Deborah’s site used the once extremely popular Cutline theme. It was quite the fancy theme back in the early days of WordPress with its multiple sidebar options and

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Selling products and services on websites in WordPress is fairly easy to do. It’s also easy to screw up without knowing it, so today I want to share with you some tips for websites in WordPress that I’ve learned the hard way over the years. No sense you getting all those knots on the forehead, too, right? Give each product or service it’s own space.

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Comments are usually a welcome thing on your blog posts, but WordPress also allows for commenting on Pages. I can think of a few situations where the ability to comment on a page would come in handy, but by and large, I don’t want to see them on Pages. I don’t want to see some message indicating they’re closed, either. So, I had to find

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Web/blog statistics make some people want to stick pins in their eyes, I know…but bear with me for just a minute, because you don’t have to love them to benefit greatly from paying just a little bit of attention to them. The image above is a screenshot of the overview stats for one of my sites in Google Analytics. Now, I know that not everyone

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Contests of any kind are a great way to get your readers engaged and involved in your site. Recently, a client introduced me to a plugin aptly named Photo Contest that will do just what it says: Allow you to hold and manage a photo contest at your site…easily, no less! What happens if your site is not a photography site, or an art site,

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If you’re itching for a new look and feel for your WordPress site, you’re not automatically locked in to a complete site design overhaul. You have options. I have a perfect example of this to share with you via my friend, Patsi Krakoff. She asked me to create a new header for her site. Here it is, as it was: She had had lovely new

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