X theme review ~ $115 blog Commenting Contest

x theme

X Theme review is what we are doing in this contest post today. I want to introduce to you an incredible WordPress responsive theme that has proven to be the most complete WordPress theme in the market today.

While I’ll be picking 2 winners in this X theme review post, I’m highly recommending the theme for your WordPress projects. As you take time to check out the details, you’ll discover amazing features that can only be found here.

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Free WordPress Themes ~ Why free is expensive!

free wordpress themes

There are thousands of Free WordPress Themes out there and many of these free themes keep coming up every moment. Of course, WordPress script itself is shipped with a couple of free themes.

While these free templates have their advantages, there disadvantages to my opinion outweigh the positive points.

You can have free wordpress templates just in any niche – from very simple to somewhat complex designs – for business, photographers, churches, musician, writers, etc When I say free, I mean free;

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WARNING! Your blog at RISK Again! Did you know this?

Do you think your blog is secured? Wait until you read this.

I got a mail from one of my readers pointing this issue out on my blog. As a matter of fact, as a webmaster and php developer, it took me just negligence to not have gotten these leakages handled. With just a few clicks in your cPanels, these security flaws can be dealt with in a matter of minutes.

I tested over 5 blogs I read so often and non of them was safe. This is serious! How come almost everyone does not care about this yet we talk about safety here and there.

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WordPress Performance and speed optimization tricks that work!

Performance and speed optimization tips and recommendations

Optimizing your blog for fast loading speed and high performance is a must in WordPress. Of course, that doesn’t mean every other site is left out.

As long as search engines and human readers are involved, high speed and usability are top priorities. Generally, if your blog takes over 2 seconds to load, this is considered slow. 3 seconds and above is very slow. With the mad rush for plugins, your new blog which should normally load under 1 second will soon be graded “very slow”. That’s why I highly recommend being so selective when installing new plugins is concerned.

This blog (at the moment of writing this post) takes less than 1 second to load and it’s graded 99% by Google PageSpeed. There are actually 13 active plugins, 7 of which are listed and recommended in this post

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How to install WordPress in 3 minutes!

how to install wordpress

Today, we will see how to install WordPress and one of WordPress’s strong points is its ease of installation.  Even  grand ma who can barely move the mouse can install this wonderful blogging script in less than 3 minutes.

This is Part V in our series of creating a money making blog. If you have not been following up, I  encourage reading the previous four parts. Start from the front page here

In this part, we are going to see how to install wordpress in 3 minutes or less. There are actually a couple of ways to install wordpress. Most of the web hosting administrative tools offer a set of scripts for quick installation. In cPanel, this is generally available in Fantastico. HostGator’s cPanel makes it a choice between Fantastico and QuickInstall. I will be basing this tutorial on these two script bundles.

NB: If you choose to host with WPX Hosting, you are going to have the best experience ever

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