Testing new WordPress themes, plugins, or upgrades before implementing it live on the Internet is a great way to streamline your workload as a web designer and developer. For example, if you want to create a new WordPress theme from scratch, it’s best that you develop the theme on your local server before you release it. Because once it goes online, who knows what can happen.
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Without a doubt, customizing every little aspect of your life will never grow old. No, you don’t want a plain old iPhone 4. You want one with 6.5 carat diamonds plastered all over it. Why? Because you are special. Everyone wishes they were like you. That’s why you have to continue standing out from the rest of the crowd and letting everyone know, well, you are damn important.

In this post, I will show you how you can:

• Customize your login screen
• Add a favicon to your dashboard page
• Change the footer text
• And more!

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Like many problems with this site, I prefer to fix things when I cannot afford to ignore them any longer or the solution presents itself to me with little effort on my part. One of these growing problems that I chose to neglect showed up again recently when Eric from FWebDe sent me a reply via Twitter.

@loneplacebo Hey man, I’m stuck with the mobile theme on your site!

Of course, failing to properly identify the issue at hand like the great minds at BP, I sent him a reply soon after explaining:
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Free WordPress stuff at its finest.

After slaving away as a volunteer at WordCamp Orange County last week in order to sneak into the sessions for free(don’t judge me), I flew up Friday night for today’s much-anticipated WordCamp San Francisco which was held at the Mission Bay Conference center. Nearly 800 people attended the event, 95% of whom refused to speak with me due to my laughable understanding of talking in computer language. Nevertheless, I successfully dodged most of these people and met some great people who had a lot to say about WordPress. I met a freelance web designer, a dude from the East coast who works at a university, a woman from Vermont who happens to be a Painting major(too cool!), and many other smart people. In this post, I recap the good, the bad, and the funny business that I witnessed at WordCamp SF.
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Are you getting the most out of your WordPress blog or website? Obviously not since you are reading this post, which by the way you shouldn’t forget to share with your friends, family, and neighbor’s cat. The beauty of WordPress lies in its massive scope of possibilities to experiment and create amazing things you’ve never dreamed of. In this post, I will share with you ten incredible tips I’ve come across and really found useful. I hope you discover something new.
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Is WordPress giving you a headache these days? I understand.

Let’s admit it. WordPress is an unbelievable blogging tool. Millions of businesses and bloggers are using WordPress as the foundation of their website or blog. But, like your mother always told you, “Nothing is perfect in life… even WordPress.”

So, you see, if WordPress was so damn perfect, there wouldn’t be anything to debate about it, let alone blog about it. In this article, I will present to you 5 common problems that are raised along with their 5 solutions. If you want to make your WordPress blog even better, I suggest that you keep reading.

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You couldn’t resist could you? Here I catch you red-handed with your pants on fire in an obvious attempt to read yet another blog post about WordPress plugins. There are literally as many posts about these as there are plugins available. There are articles about SEO plugins(ahem), the best-of-the-best plugins, money-making plugins, and plugins you just have to have.

So, let me bore you no longer and present to you yet another list of WordPress plugins. Yawn.

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Before I started my own self-hosted WordPress blog, I used a WordPress.com blog. All the articles claiming WordPress as being the best blogging platform available were indeed true. WordPress is the King. Even running a freely-hosted domain, I was blown away by all the things that I could do to customize and spice up my blog.

What made me hesitate in deciding to switch to a self-hosted blog was the level of maintenance it required on a regular basis. Sure, I knew some HTML and CSS, but was that enough? I needed to do my homework and I am glad I took the time to research everything I needed to know on how to properly manage things in the future.

For those of you unsure of changing to your own domain name, here is an article that highlights the reasons you should stay. It is simply to maximize your breadth of knowledge if you ever decide to take that next big step. If you are a newb blogger and currently own an unimpressive “yourdomainname.wordpress.com,” this article is for you.

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