Give them what they are looking for right on your front page.  Some visitor that come to your website will stop at the Home Page unless you give them the reason to click farther.  If you have a Blog Home page make sure your list of  “Posts” are on your sidebar and the list should show more than the number of articles displayed on your front page.  If you display 5 articles on your front page then list 10 or more.  Also Categories and Tags are good to display in the sudebar so visitors can sort articles by Category and Tags or Keywords.  If your site is setup with a fixed front page rather than a blog page then make sure you have easy to see links to the other pages that you want people to view.  Make sure its right in front of their eyes and make sure your most important things are towards the top.

How would you like to have your own Online Magazine or news site.  You can have one for your community, your family, your club or even your business.  You can have different contributors or authors and post news, information and other articles to attract and entertain visitors. You can have different sections with similar topics, photos, videos, polls, slideshows and more.   With WordPress we can make this happen for you and its not that difficult to maintain and keep updated.  Contact us today and we’ll get you online in no time at all.

Using the Widget Context Plugin

Giving your WordPress website different different sidebar widgets for different sections is easy enough to do using a plugin called “Widget Context“.  Once you install this plugin you get some extra functionality in your dashboard’s widget menu.  When you put any widget into your sidebar you can choose what sections of you website this widget will show up on.  It can be displayed on your home page, blog page, single posts, single pages, search page, archive page and more. 

You can also use negative logic and hide that particular widget from certain sections.  Whatever works best for your design.  Here’s a look at the functionality block that gets added to your widget settings.  Just select where you want or don’t want that widget displayed, save, and your all set.

WordPress continues to grow in popularity as more and more people are using it to create full featured websites that you control yourself. WordPress is not just a blog machine. It is a complete CMS that is highly configurable so it can be any kind of website, complete with SEO abilities, RSS feeds and all kinds of other built in functionality.

Blog, Content portal, Business website, Corporate website, Performers websites, Clubs, Schools, Lawyers, they can all have very nice looking and interactive sites. Even online store fronts.  Contact me and we can get your WordPress Website online tomorrow.  We design, host and support you all the way.

14.7 Percent of Top Global Websites are WordPress

Another Free Music Theme for your new website.  Theme intended for musicians or concert goers but can be used for anything you’d like.

Theme Features include:

• Custom Vertical Menu Block
• Widget Support for footer and content areas
• Footer content area
• Pages can be hidden from menu bar
• Titles can be hidden from pages
• 5  advertisement short-codes
• Full sheet page template to have pages with no sidebars

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This Free Theme features 3 columns with content to the left, a wide column in the middle suitable for a list of articles or custom menu links, narrow column to the right for your blog menus.  Using the custom menu feature and the custom verticle menu block(s) you can display your content in many different ways with this theme.  Other built in features include, your footer text, footer widgets, top and bottom content widgets, page hiding, title hiding, comment hiding, ad shortcodes and more.

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Full width page template available when publishing a Page.

Clean Blog page for a professional look to your complete website.  I would be glad to help you with customizing this theme with your logo and or colors or feel free to use it as it is.  It is fully functional and would make a terrific website as it is.

A WordPress maintenance upgrade was released today taking us to version 3.2.1 and is available in your dashboard.  You can upgrade easily and automatically.

If you haven’t upgraded to version 3.2 yet make sure your host is running php version 5 as this is now required by WordPress. You can get the Health Check plugin  ( wordpress.org/extend/plugins/health-check ) and check your install.  This will show you the exact version you are running.

You can also download this file,  testphp.zip  Unzip it and extract the file called test.php which you can ftp/upload to the root directory of your website.  Then in your browser enter www.yourdomain.com/test.php.  You get a page of info about the version and settings of the php system on the server you are using.

Full Screen Green

A Free WordPress Theme for your full screen blog or website.  Have LOTS of content??  Maybe this full screen width theme will give you what you are looking for.

Single Left Side Sidebar, Simple Green Header,  Horizontal menu with drop downs for sub pages, Vertical menu for categories or your custom menus, Theme option page in the dashboard.  Other options include: customizable footer, auto ad insert, page title display, include page in menu and more.

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If you use this or one of my other free themes and you would like to make a contribution to the cause, click the button!!

In case you didn’t know WordPress 3.1.1 is available now and you should upgrade to this most current version.  This update to the recently released version 3.1 addresses security and performance issues.

Read all about the latest version here!

http://wordpress.org/news/2011/04/wordpress-3-1-1/

With the new 3.1 release, WordPress is more of a CMS than ever before. The only limit to what you can build is your imagination.

Upgrade to the new WordPress 3.1 automatically from your dashboard or head on over to WordPress.org and download the latest package to install manually.  Stay up to date with the newest features and core enhancements for speed and security.

Upgrade today!

An update is available for WordPress and it’s considered a critical one that deals with security issues.  We recommend that you update immediately either automatically from your dashboard or download the updated package from wordpress.org and install it manually.  Update to version 3.0.4 now!

An update to WordPress bringing it to version 3.0.2 is available now  and you should update your WordPress websites.  This is a security update that fixes an exploit vulnerability.  This is considered a mandatory update so do it as soon as possible.

http://wordpress.org/news/2010/11/wordpress-3-0-2/

WordPress has been awarded the 2010 Open Source Award for being the the best CMS platform available.  The three winners were WordPress, Drupal and Joomla.   It was close but WordPress came out on top.  Congratulations to the WordPress team and Thanks for your continued efforts.

http://www.packtpub.com/open-source-awards-home

There is a new “Preview” version of Artisteer available.  If you have a current registered version you can download and install this in parallel with your 2.4 or 2.5 version.  Since the last release of version 2.4, Artisteer has released numerous versions of thier 2.5 release which didn’t seem to be all that well recieved by users.  Version 3.0 is looking more promising and it has many new features.  Things like being able to have the title of a page displayed or not using a check box on the edit page.  There’s also a check box for that page to appear in menus or not.  Support for new WordPress 3.0 widget areas and custom menus.   It’s looking real good so far and we can’t wait for the official stable release.

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Bernie Parent, the famous Philadelphia Flyers Goalie, uses WordPress for his website and blog to keep everyone up to date with what’s going on in his life these days.  We are very proud to be working with Bernie and his website and WordPress has proven itself the Best website engine you can find.  Bernie’s site is a combination of Photo Galleries, Videos, pages of info on Bernie and the BLOG.  With WordPress Bernie can login and post announcements and articles he wants people to hear about.  He even has a little store with Bernie Parent Memorabilia you can purchase.  Check him out at www.bernieparent.net