I have been searching for ages to find a way of integrating Adsense ads into my Wordpress blog posts and pages. Finally I found a free plugin that floats the web page copy around the Adsense ads, it looks attractive and not excessive. You can also use this plugin with other contextual ad networks. Since installing the plugin... More

When you have selected your domain name and purchased the domain, and signed up for your low cost web hosting account you can get started and begin creating your online content. looking at some of your competitors’ professional looking websites, you may start to wonder how your can create a good website. The good news... More

After I started making my first changes to the Wordpress theme files by using the post options I felt more confident to look for other ways to change the permalinks. I knew that post permalinks show by default in the browser title bar starting with the name of the blog. So every post on your blog will start with the same phrase.... More

I recently found out about how Google Code Search can help me find new blog plugins and hacks. This helps you search through publicly accessible source code. I am no techie so I was not sure how this could help me but I tried it out. I discovered that Code search cuts out irrelevant results and homes in on web pages containing... More

I have added a sitemaps plugin to my Wordpress Blogs today. The reason I decided I needed a sitemap generator was that I read in a number of online discussions that a sitemap will improve your search engine optimisation, helping ALL the spiders to locate your web pages. I found the sitemap plugin on the Wordpress.org site. It was... More

I am continually finding things I can do in Wordpress that simply were not possible in my old Blogger blogs. Moving my sites to Wordpress was one of the best things I did this year. I knew that post permalinks show by default in the browser title bar starting with the name of the blog. So every post on your blog will start with... More

This kind of thing always happens to me! When I wanted to import my old blog posts from my old Blogger Beta account, my wordpress installation was WP2.1. That did not support Beta imports, only ‘old Blogger. The solution was to move them via a Wordpress.com account. I think the guys at my web hosting company must have been... More

I am so pleased that even I have managed to move a blog from Blogger to Wordpress on my web host’s control panel. When I tried to migrate the old posts across I found that the Wordpress 2.1 ‘import’ command was only able to bring Old Blogger. Of course I was using new Blogger – or Beta – already.... More

Here is the HTML code you need to redirect the entire contents of your blogspot blog to a new URL. It will work whether visitors click on the main blog address or the individual post URL. I am using this for my redundant blogspot addresses as I move them to wordpress software hosted on my webhost servers. I cannot get the complete... More

I have just set up a new wordpress blog on my Home Entrepreneur Income site. I wanted to have a blog with my own domain name and wordpress seems to be a good tool once you can use it. The standard wordpress theme is dull, of course. But after hours of surfing I have not found any themes that are much more interesting. Why are... More