At the beginning of October, I entered into a 30 day branding challenge being coordinated by Tiffany Dow and I have decided to use this blog as my active branding case study.
Currently, I’ve branded this site as the WordPress Ninja because I’ve always had a passion for helping other people by providing solutions to their technical problems or questions. In my years creating sites (including blogs) on the WordPress platform, I’ve learned quite a few tricks.
As a matter of fact, a fellow participant in the branding challenge reached out to me with a WordPress problem and I was able to resolve her issue without any trouble. And this was after she had reached out to a number of other experts without any luck.
With all that said, I recognize that I have drifted away from providing WordPress tips and tricks, tutorials, and resources so I wanted to open this to the community as well.
What WordPress questions or problems are you having?
Due to my preference to work with the Thesis WordPress theme, a lot of my tutorials and guides are based on that theme. However, I truly want to provide a service here that helps you.
By understanding what questions or problems you are having, I will be able to tailor my WordPress lessons so that they are even more useful to you. No question is too basic; as a matter of fact those are often the most helpful questions to ask because you’re not alone.
We will be covering WordPress from soup to nuts for both the beginner and the more advanced user. Don’t worry if some lessons are too basic, or too advanced for you, we will have something here for everyone.
Now, let me hear your WordPress questions!
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Glad I found your blog, Derek. I have a question for you already, but I am going to come back for some more tips and tricks later too. I was wondering – which database optimizer plugin do you recommned? I’ve tried a few including WP Total Cache, but certain problems seem to arise with newer versions of WP.
thanks in advance for any advice!
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I’ll have to add that to the queue; I’ve never been a fan of the optimizer plugins as I’ve seen too many of them cause problems on blogs I’ve worked on. I’ll have to investigate the various options and do some analysis.
Hi! I’m glad I’ve found your blog. I want to study wordpress, that’s why I’ve started making a research and reviews. I’ll be back at you blog and wish I could have more information about wordpress. Thank you so much!
Wordpress is awesome, you don’t have to learn programming, saves a lot of time.
You should definitely check into Thesis as well, it really streamlines everything!
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I’m a big fan of Thesis as you might know – this site, and many of my others are built on the Thesis theme.
I tried Thesis with one of my sites a while back too and loved it. It’s so customizable and easy to use. Really well suited for SEO.
-Jean
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When people come to me for a WordPress based website I use the Twenty Ten them. It’s a default theme I know, but it works great and if you are good with php, html, and css you can completely change the entire look. The only issue I run into is getting it to pass in W3′s css validator but that is easy enough to take care of if needed
Although, I’m not to big on Twenty Eleven, but it does have some cool home page and widget features to take advantage of.
I am glad you have come to open up the floor for more help. I myself have run into various WP problems. One that bothers me but I know there is no fix for it but I really liked the plugin SlimStat and since an update is hasn’t worked in some time. While that isn’t a huge problem its just the one I haven’t been able to solve.
I’ve not heard of that plugin before; sounds like the developer abandoned it, so short of me picking it up and contributing to the plugin I might not be able to offer much help on that one.
Thanks for letting me know anyway. I will have to try and find a workaround. I really did like that plugin.
Great! I’m just new to wordpress and I want to learn something new. Tricks, Tips, and other things. I think I found someone to ask for in case of something on wordpress.
I have some several websites powered by wordpress. So far I’m not experiencing any problem but I know I will. lol So I decided to look for sites that can help me and luckily I found yours.
Good one! I am new to wordpress. I want to learn something new about wordpress.
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you’re actually a just right webmaster. The web site loading pace is amazing. It seems that you are doing any unique trick. Also, The contents are masterpiece. you have performed a fantastic activity in this topic!
I was just wondering what your top plugins are for every Wordpress install? What are your can’t live without plugins? And beside from Thesis; what do you consider the next best thing (theme)?
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I have read that I should not have too many plugin a WP page, it is true?? and what is maximum number of such cases.
I agree with you guys, Wordpress is really awesome. I’ve been using wordpress for several blogs that I manage. And I love the Thesis theme!
I am also new to WordPress so I look forward to learning new things and getting help when needed.
I think the Thesis theme is fantastic for customization. I still want to take a lot more time on learning it so this would be great if I can ask you some questions down the road Derek. Thanks.
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Hi Derek, that’s a great way to help your fellow bloggers, wordpress it’s really the most used content management platform for bloggers and it’s really great that you help bloggers to take advantage of it…
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I’d be interested to know if you have a list of say, “essential” wordpress Plugins that you always use (or almost always use). The ones that you think are the best, or most important, out there? Thanks!
Great post! I love wordpress. It’s where I first site was made!
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WordPress is really amazing. So far i’m not having any problem using it but i know it will. That is why i want to learn more about WordPress. Hope you can post more useful ideas about WordPress. Thanks!
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I am on the way to learn wordpress and very glad to read your help offer for us.It is great virtue, keep it up.
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Wordpress is a good blog platform and my kidney diet site is made using wordpress. the backup and upgrade procedure is really what worries me.
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I know your readers are all so excited about this. Word press being one of the best blogging platforms is a favorite for beginners in blogging. You being able to help those who are new and also the experienced wordpress users is great.
I agree with you guys, Wordpress is really awesome. I’ve been using wordpress for several blogs that I manage. And I love the Thesis theme!
but i use blogger too….
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Hey Derek,
Do you have any experience with the “Genesis” Theme for WordPress?
Russ@Michigan Web Design hopes you will read… Web Design and SEO Services
No, I have never worked with Genesis.
‘A few tricks’ is probably an understatement. From what I’ve read thus far you’ve got more than a few Wordpress tricks up your sleeve, my darlin’
Anita. xx
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Come by your blog post only 6 months after
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Im currently using Wordpress too, but I’m having problem finding a problem optimisation+caching tool. I was using W3 Total Cache and Im afraid of it now, it nearly deleted my entire blog’s media + theme files while exporting to CDN, luckily i had my back up.
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My opinion differs from many but I personally don’t like any of the caching plugins, or at least the ones that I’ve had experience with so far. I prefer to try and reduce the load as much as possible by not including unnecessary plugins, utilizing a well built theme such as Thesis that doesn’t introduce much code bloat, optimizing images for loading, etc.
I’ve been involved with too many blogs that have had significant problems due to the mismanagement of the caching plugin so I avoid it if at all possible.