The Wonderful World of WordPress

There’s plenty of stuff to learn about WordPress including WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, SEO for WordPress, using WordPress for static websites as well as blogs.

The articles I’ve written on my site include WordPress tutorials, using some of the best WordPress Plugins that will help you get the most out of your website or blog, and much more.


You’ll also read about different WordPress Themes, both free and premium themes, and how they can help improve the design of your WordPress website.

Here are 5 WordPress Plugins that will help you with various aspects of your blog from tracking stats to securing your blog and providing functionality. 1. WordPress.com Stats The WordPress.com Stats plugin tracks your most popular stats.  You need an account and blog at wordpress.com and your WordPress API key to use this plugin.  Here [...]

Did you know you can get themes over at WordPress Theme Directory.  Here are three from the directory that I like. 1.  This is a clean and simple theme called Fusion.  A reader of a blog with this theme can click on an arrow image in the upper right-hand corner of the theme to widen [...]

Joost de Valk of Yoast – Tweaking Websites, gave a lecture on WordPress SEO and Optimization at the 2008 a4uexpo Affiliate Marketing Conference and Exhibition in London. Here’s the video and below are my notes if you don’t want to watch the video.  The video is approximately 50 minutes long and my notes don’t include [...]

Contextual Related Posts Plugin Contextual Related Posts Plugin is a plugin that displays – related posts at your blog. I started using one of the standard related posts plugins called Yet Another Related Posts Plugin, but noticed it only showed one or none related posts for my new blog here at billbolmeier.com.  I probably didn’t [...]

I was listening to Yaro Starak’s interview with Caroline Middlebrook about her blog and how she’s made it popular in a short period of time.  One activity they discussed was blog commenting and how Caroline was penned the “Commenting Queen”. Apparently two Pro-Bloggers Yaro Starak and Darren Rowse of Problogger wrote about her in the [...]

When you start a WordPress blog and select a theme, another task you’ll want to look at are the various WordPress plugins that are available to enhance your blog. Here are a few core WordPress plugins to consider. Akismet WordPress plugins allow you to add extra functionality to your WordPress blog.  For example, one of [...]

In yesterday’s Working with WordPress post I mentioned free and paid for WordPress themes.  Themes are templates that give your blog its look and feel.  There are many themes to choose from. If you’re just starting a blog, it’s best to just pick a theme that is pleasing to you so you don’t get caught [...]

For those who don’t know, WordPress is a blogging platform that I talked about in Starting a Blog. Blogging consists of writing posts that are listed in chronological order from newest to oldest.  This can include posts on family life, reviews, tutorials, news, sports, and anything else you can think of. There are a few [...]