Version 2.8.6 of Wordpress is now available. Make sure to log in to your Wordpress dashboard and upgrade asap as it is a security update.
This fixes a bug that is available to users who are logged in and have posting privileges. Hopefully you trust all the people allowed to post to your Wordpress, but just in case you don’t, upgrade now.
When I’m creating a Wordpress them or editting one, I usually clip out snippets of coding and paste them into notepad incase I’ll need them later. You never know what you’re going to mess up or why, so it’s good to have the original coding to be able to slap back in whenever you need to. Sometimes, I want to keep that coding and saving notepad files in random places around my desktop has worked, but it’s not extremely efficient because when I save them I save them as the date I made them, and if I don’t know what the date was when I saved the clip I need.. well, you get the picture. So what I’ve started doing is saving notes in my wordpress theme. It’s easy to do without a plugin (though it’d be nice to have one).
So it’s extremely easy and truly has been a life saver at times.
An important part of your online presence is choosing a webhost. If you haven’t already been around the block, you’re probably posting on forums and asking friends who they’ve gone with. Doing this is probably going to get you a large list of cheap hosting companies that may or may not be quality. Can you go by what 1 person says to pick a company? Probably not. And it’s probably not likely that everyone is going to suggest the same company. What you need is a reliable resource with reviews and ratings of the web hosting companies so you can decide which will fit you best.
One such choice for this it Web Hosting Choice, a directory of hosting companies rated by the site’s developers based on the information found on those websites. Basically, it condenses everything you should be looking for when you visit a host’s website and sets it up there for you, along with their own rating scale. But keep in mind that just because this site is here and they have a review, that does not mean that this site is not owned by one of the hosting companies (say the one ranked #1) or isn’t being paid by those hosting companies to be ranked so high. Do you research, but definitely put this site on your list of places to look.
I’ve just submit my own hosting company to this list in hopes of being accepted.
In the past my page rank on this domain has been as high as 4, which wasn’t extremely high at the time, but has become pretty hard to obtain lately. Now I’m back down to a page rank of 0. But since I’m rebuilding the site I want to keep an eye on my rank conveniently. There are a couple of ways I’ve found to do that.
1. Google has a Google Toolbar that allows you to see the page rank of any site you’re visiting. The only problem with this is that you must use Internet Explorer or Firefox to see the ranking. As of lately I have been gravitating more toward Google Chrome because it’s a bit faster. Just go to the site in your preferred browser and it will give you the correct page for your toolbar.
2. There are 3rd party websites out there that will check your page rank and display it for you. Most of these sites require that you go to them and put in your URL, then they will give you your page rank and possibly even more information, like how many backlinks your site has. The site I’ve picked shows you your page rank, then gives you a button to paste onto your website. I put mine up and now all I have to do to see my page rank is scroll to the bottom. Once I actually have some page rank, I’ll put it above the fold.
3. Google will tell you. They have free webmaster tools to help you make the best of your site, but will also show you the page rank of all the pages on your site. This will help you in determining a few things, but is most important for deciding how much you should charge for advertising on each of those pages. A page with PR 8 will be worth a lot more than a page with PR4, but the PR4 is still worth quite a bit. Every page has a different ranking. This is a great tool to use once a month to keep tabs on your site.
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My name is Amy, and I've been creating and designing websites for 10 years. I live
in the lowcountry of South Carolina where there is plenty of natural inspiration. 
