Blogging

Upgrading Wordpress with the iPhone

I’ve been using InstantUpgrade for over a year now to keep my blog on the latest version of Wordpress without fail. Every upgrade has been smooth and successful and has gone off without a hitch. This evening I got really brave and used my iPhone to upgrade to Wordpress 2.7, again everything went More >

GreatWebGuy gets a face lift

Well, upon running into the theme we were using for the umphteenth time, we decided that it was time to change things around. Not finding anything that really jumped out and not wanting to start from scratch, we borrowed and modified a theme from web2themes.com I think it’s definitely an improvement, but please More >

InstantUpgrade – My new favorite WordPress plugin

Suffering from an internal struggle, I love to be on the latest and greatest WordPress, but I’m also extremely lazy and don’t enjoy the pain of upgrading. The WordPress upgrade process is annoying at best. If you follow all the rules and, back up your database, backup your old files, disable all your More >

Upgrades complete at GreatWebGuy, we’re back now and posting

We’re still here, just been too busy to blog, it’s been a month, but we’ve done a lot.
First and foremost we found a new host and at a great price. We opted for a VPS at JTLNet, for $19.95/mo. we get 15GB of disk space, 256MB of guaranteed memory, 200GB of bandwidth More >

21 WordPress plug-ins, some good, some bad, some just ugly

You may have noticed that I’m short on entries this past week. New to blogging and easily distracted by shiny things, wordpress plug-ins are my Kryptonite. If you’re not hosting your own blog and not playing with plug-ins all the time I imagine you’re probably a much more productive blogger than me. More >

Hosted Wordpress Blog – How to do it quickly

There are several sites such as wordpress.com and blogger.com where you can sign up for free and start your blog right away.
But if you’re like me, that’s not good enough, you want to express your individuality, make your own name, control your own destiny. You want your own domain and your own host so More >