Sometimes I get clients coming to me and saying, "Jenn, I lost EVERYTHING on my website — and I don't know why!" My heart breaks for them, especially when I know they have worked hard to build their online business. But sadly, this is a common story. Many online business owners and bloggers even, build websites, fill them up with useful content, information and products, but they fail to do one important thing: To protect their website from harm. Website protection is a best practice that … [Read more...]
Techno Tidbit #22: Make Your WordPress Site Load Faster
Techno Tidbit #22: Make your WordPress site load faster by optimizing the images that you upload and use. You can manually resize them using Adobe Photoshop or Gimp , but this process might be tedious and takes a long time. You can automatically optimize the images that you upload by using plugins like WP Smush.It. Another alternative is to use plugins that let your images load as you see it, like BJ Lazy Load. Note: Check out this infographic that I collaborated with Fancy Girl Design … [Read more...]
Techno Tidbit #8: Using WordPress Permalinks
Techno Tidbit #8: For WordPress users, change your permalinks from the default one to one that has post name on it. Post name permalinks are more search engine friendly and will boost your searchability. You can choose from the following permalink structures: Day and name Month and name Post name Custom Structure With Custom Structure, you can add "category" before the post name. ex. thetechiemom.com/category/post-name With these suggested permalink structures, you can still … [Read more...]
The Techie Mom’s Major Upgrade
Welcome to the new and improved The Techie Mom! I have been wanting a customized design for my website (and eventually, blog) for the longest time, so imagine my excitement the very first time I laid my eyes on my new site! So please indulge me as I thank the following people who made this change possible (yes, this would be equivalent to a "best actress speech" hahaha). my husband, Oliver, the king of graphic designing, for my logo. Love you :) my … [Read more...]
Why self-hosted WordPress is the only way to go for serious bloggers and business owners
I get this question quite often, why should I get self-hosted WordPress when I can get a blog up and running for free? And yes, there are a lot of free platforms out there like Blogger or WordPress.com, to name a few. Honestly, these platforms are not bad. But if you are serious about your blogging and you want people to take your business seriously, you need to consider getting your own domain name and hosting. Here are some reasons why you need to run a self-hosted WordPress site. Reason # … [Read more...]