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May 24, 2012

How to Privately Test Drive a New WordPress Theme

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I’m finally getting around to upgrading my last few blogs to the Genesis Framework from StudioPress and have decided to spare my readers the ugliness that usually accompanies such a change. In this video I discuss how to use a plugin that allows you to test drive a new WordPress theme in the background, so [...]

Why I Switched Back to StudioPress Genesis

After sporting the Thesis theme by DIYThemes on RosalindGardner.com for several months, I switched back to using a StudioPress theme on that blog. It wasn’t that I didn’t like Thesis. I do. It’s an excellent theme and I still highly recommend it to those looking for a professional theme for WordPress. Once you get past [...]

Socrates: Newbie-Friendly WordPress Theme

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Yesterday, I came across Socrates, a new WordPress Theme that has some very newbie-friendly features that decrease the need for hard-coding. With Socrates, you’ll find: Easy to Manage Navigation Links That you can instantly Monetize Your Site With the Ad Bar Built-in Clickbank monetization 50+ Backgrounds or Upload Your Own That You can Create Custom [...]

WordPress in a Day

Awhile back I introduced you to Justin Parr, creator of the Doglirious site (shown below) Justin built his site on a WordPress blog platforms using the StudioPress themes for WordPress. Doglirious is based on the Lifestyle theme, (as does NPT) and MyEnergyPal uses the StudioPress Church theme. Here is how they appear ‘out of the [...]

Designing the DinerDave Website

So now I have a hosting service, I’ve done my market research, and I’ve written pertinent content based on that research for DinerDave.com. Now it’s time to design the layout and look of the site. Once again I turn to Ros for recommendations on who could create a professional looking blog. WHO Will Design DinerDave.com? [...]

BizZites Review: All-in-One Affiliate Datafeed Store Builder & CMS

UPDATE as of April 5, 2011: Bizzites has been sold and the new owner will no longer be supporting it. They plan to take the site down in fact. Please visit Affiliate Datafeed Integration Software and Services for other datafeed solutions. I’ve been working with a BizZites affiliate store builder for the last couple of [...]

My Links are Grey Instead of Blue

In the Forum, shalisha42 noted: Hi everyone. I’ve been following SAH and I put up my first real blog!!! I’m so psyched. I have one problem though… when I put my links in, they are grey instead of blue, so you really can’t tell that they are links. I use wordpress 2.7. Ros, you were [...]