How to dress up your 404 page

What do visitors see when they click on a link to your site and the page they were looking for is missing, or the URL has changed? The 404 page is easy to customize, but it’s something that is often overlooked in the quest to make a site “stickier”....

Want to be successful? Learn to manage expectations.

When I was working a “regular” day job and review time would come around, the main thing I looked for was that last page of the review where there were 3 check boxes: Does not meet expectations Meets expectations Exceeds expectations My main concern as my...

How to hide pages and rearrange your menu in WordPress

Update: This post was written years ago, before WordPress added the very cool Menus functionality. Most new themes are using this function, so that the default might be just to list your pages, but you can go to Appearance/Menus and create your own menu for you...

How to show your most popular posts in the sidebar

As I’m working towards making my sites “stickier”, I’ve been looking around for a good plugin to show the post popular posts in the sidebar. I found an excellent plugin/widget combination that has been easy to use and has provided me with a lot...