WordPress for Small Business

WordPress Plugin to Show Your Online Reviews

July 21, 2010
Online Reviews Wordpress Plugin

Have you ever wanted to show off your online reviews on your website? If you are a small business, it’s a best practice for a few reasons: It makes it easy for your customers to leave you an online review It shows potential customers that you are transparent about your reviews and what your customers [...]

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WordPress 3.0 is out and SmallBiz is Ready!

June 17, 2010
WordPress 3.0 is out!

Well it’s out. WordPress 3.0 is here and packed with a ton of exciting new features. And I’m happy to say that our SmallBiz WordPress Theme works perfectly on it. We’ve been testing all through the betas and the release candidates. We were even at WordCamp last month in San Francisco planning out which of [...]

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WordPress Running on Microsoft?

April 30, 2010
WordPress on Microsoft Windows Server

I‘ve been telling my blog readers that they shouldn’t try to run WordPress on a Microsoft Windows Server hosting account. Why? Because WordPress is based on a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and many of my clients who have tried to run WordPress on Windows Server based hosting accounts have had tons of problems [...]

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See You at WordCamp San Francisco

April 30, 2010
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Expand2Web is going to be at WordCamp SF (#wcsf) this weekend en-force. (Yeah, that’s right, all THREE of us ) We’d love to meet up with you, so if you’re going to be there ping me on Twitter at @doncampbell and we’ll grab a coffee and geek out over WP themes and plugins. Thomas, Randy [...]

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Verify Your WordPress Website in Google Webmaster Tools

February 3, 2010
Google Webmaster Tools = Swiss Army Knife for your WordPress Website!

Google Webmaster Tools is one of the most powerful free toolkits at your disposal for making sure Google can crawl your website properly. In order to use Google Webmaster tools for your website, you need to verify it with Google to prove that you own the website. There are two ways to do this: Uploading [...]

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Local Search Marketing Guides

January 2, 2010
Catch Search Marketing Logo

Recently I met Jeff Howard from Catch Search Marketing, a local search marketing agency based in Bethesda, MD. Jeff is a super nice and very talented guy who has created a lot of valuable content for small business owners. At his website he’s got a series of Local Business Guides that are packed full of [...]

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WordPress 2.9 Update for SmallBiz Theme

December 24, 2009

WordPress 2.9 was released this week and comes with a bunch of cool new features. Here are a few highlights: My Favorite New Features in WordPress 2.9 Built-in image editor: crop, update, flip and scale right from within WordPress Batch plugin updates: update your plugins all at once instead of one at a time. I [...]

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WordPress Website Theme Update – SmallBiz v1.4

November 2, 2009
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We just completed a few changes to the Expand2Web SmallBiz WordPress Theme that I think you will really like. First, I thought it would be cool to be able to preview new header graphics that you upload in the SmallBiz Options panel. Visual Header Image Chooser So we added a preview feature where you can [...]

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WordPress Custom Page Template with No Sidebars

October 25, 2009

When building a WordPress Website for your business, one of the common things people want to do is to provide a home page that does not look like a blog. The Expand2Web SmallBiz theme automatically provides this for you – a page that tells visitors about your business and provides a clear call to action. [...]

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How to Add a Video to Your WordPress Home Page

October 24, 2009

A *lot* of people have asked me how to add a video to the home page of their WordPress website using the Expand2Web SmallBiz WordPress theme. The SmallBiz Theme comes with a static home page by default since many business owners want that instead of the traditional list of blog posts on the home page. [...]

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