Start a WordPress “Membership” site for under $100

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Start a WordPress “Membership” site for under $100

By Admin on Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 | No Comments

A few years ago, I needed a quick and easy way to create a membership site for my Spanish lessons. I wanted to use WordPress for the site, and set off looking for membership software. There are two reasons for wanting a membership site: 1) to build continuity income (members pay a monthly fee), or [...]

The Easiest Way to Get an RSS Icon on a WordPress Blog

By Admin on Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Step 1 – Install/Activate Free Plug-In Install and activate the plug-in: RSS Icon Widget 2.2. Step 2 – Go to Appearance, then Widgets, Drag Widget to Sidebar In your “Appearance/Widgets”, drag the “RSS Icon” to the sidebar. Step 3 – Change size, click “Save” Set the size, I prefer 24×24 or 32×32. Most people are [...]

WordPress – Linking Navigation Menu (Header) to Blogs

By Admin on Tuesday, June 7th, 2011 | No Comments

For a few years now, WordPress has been more than a blogging tool. By creating “Pages” instead of “Posts”, you can create web pages for your site. On many of my WordPress sites, I have pages as the main content, with links on the navigation menu, but I also have a link to the blogs. [...]

First Results of PHP-Fusion to WordPress Conversion

By Admin on Sunday, February 6th, 2011 | No Comments

Today, I ran the following steps (elapsed time specified is an extreme high for each step): 1) Used Fantastico from CPanel to install WordPress in a subdirectory called wordpress on http://BizTalk-Training.com. Then did upgrade to 3.0.4 since Fantastico installed 3.0.3. (10 minutes). This will allow us to practice, and build the new site while the [...]

PHP Redirect Script (from PHP-Fusion to WordPress)

By Admin on Sunday, January 30th, 2011 | No Comments

What problem does this script solve? If you convert your site from PHP-Fusion to WordPress (or any other system), other websites might have “deep” links (like this: (for example: http://CMSTrainingVideos.com/viewpage.php?page_id=52) into the content of your site, and you don’t want them seeing an ugly page like this: Thus the solution follows: <?php Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 [...]

Action Plan for Converting PHP-Fusion Sites to WordPress

By Admin on Wednesday, January 26th, 2011 | 1 Comment

As mentioned in a prior post, I do plan to convert more than a dozen of my sites over the next few months from PHP-Fusion to WordPress – so I need to automate and document as much as possible, and potentially share the ideas and the work if anybody is interested. I see the steps [...]

Time for Me to Convert from PHP-Fusion to WordPress 3

By Admin on Wednesday, January 26th, 2011 | 1 Comment

I have several ideas, and I’m willing to write some code to help accomplish this. But I would also like to team-up with others, and either create a product or open source project to help other people who want to do the same. I used PHP-Fusion for at least a dozen different sites, mostly used [...]

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