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Category: WordPress

Knowing Your Way Around the WordPress Write Screen

April 5, 2008 – 9:58 am

Guest Blogger Week continues at Remarkablogger with Joel Williams of Blog Tech Guy
With the launch of Wordpress 2.5 many things in the Wordpress admin dashboard have changed. However some things remain the same, and one of those is how each part of a Wordpress post affects what is displayed on your blog. For ease of [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Also posted in Blogging Tutorials | Comments (9)

Follow-up to Moving from WordPress.com to Self-Hosted

March 24, 2008 – 5:36 am

Last week I wrote a guide for how to move from WordPress.com to a self-hosted setup. Some of the comments on that post were so helpful that I wanted to highlight them in a new post.
Lid said:
Great post Michael - thanks!
One thing I did want to mention - because we have just had huge [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (10)

Better Blogging Link Blast for June 29, 2007

June 29, 2007 – 5:26 am

A roundup of great links from the past week to help you be a better blogger!

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Also posted in Blog Tools | Comments (2)

Better Blogging Link Blast for Jun 22, 07

June 22, 2007 – 9:09 am

None of these links are affiliate links or ads. Enjoy!

Google AdSense Help Center Webinars is a collection of links to video/flash-based presentations and transcripts of seminars on using and optimizing Google AdSense. There is much written about optimizing AdSense, but if you’re a visual/auditory learner, these are for you!
GaMerZ WordPress Plugins used by Eric Giguere [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Also posted in Blogging Ethics | Comments (8)

Shifting gears again

June 3, 2007 – 12:21 am

I have been super-busy with work at KnowledgeWave and getting my wife’s new endeavor, Tarot Readings Today off the ground. I’m learning all kinds of awesome stuff about SharePoint at work and using all my experience and know-how regarding Google AdWords, SEO/SEM, and WordPress to make Denise’s new site a success. It’s all quite exciting [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Also posted in Blogging Ethics | Comments (0)

7 Ways Your Website Can Help Your Business, Part 2: Save Money

August 23, 2006 – 6:16 am

The second way your website can help your business is it can help you save more money if you use your website to make your business operations more efficient and cost-effective. What kind of business operations? Tasks such as:

managing your website
project management
document management
sales assistance (CRM)

Really? All that? Yes, all that! Your website can be hosted [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Also posted in Blogging Ethics | Comments (0)

Another remix of Wheatgrass

March 9, 2006 – 9:20 pm

Holy crap have I been busy! But I have to post about Roller Warehouse starting a blog and doing their own thing with my Wheatgrass theme. That rocks. Good work, people! Blog on…

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (1)

A Theme a Day from Phu

February 27, 2006 – 7:22 pm

Phu of If..Else Log is doing a WordPress Theme a day! And they’re beautiful!

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (0)