How to Change Your Navigation with the Thesis Theme

If you’ve been reading my posts then you know that I use the Thesis theme for the WebBriefcase website. The main reason I like it is because it makes it easy to optimize and monetize my blog. It also has many features that make otherwise  tedious tasks something to look forward too. Seriously. In this [...]

Why You Shouldn’t Use WordPress for Your Membership Sites?

I’ve argued in the past that you should use a CMS like WordPress to run your membership sites. In fact, I described two different ways you can have this set up: a) with an external membership script and b) with a WordPress membership script. Recently, however, rayfellars left a comment on my blog saying Alex [...]

WordPress 2.9 – Should you update?

WordPress 2.9 – Should you update?

If you’ve logged into your WP admin these past few hours, you’ll see that dreaded Please update now message telling you that WordPress 2.9 is now available. Okay, so maybe I’m the only one who’s too lazy to do an update each time but with the features available this time around, this update is definitely [...]

Build a WordPress Membership Site with Wishlist Member – Review

This is a follow up to my earlier post about Building A Membership Site with WordPress. Just a quick recap on my earlier post. I went through my own setup of running my own membership site using WordPress. It consisted of using a combination of WordPress, Amember and Memberwing. I also listed several WordPress membership [...]

Building Blogs Versus Websites: Which Is Better?

Building blogs is a relatively recent phenomenon. It started out as a way for people to share their personal lives to whomever they chose all over the Internet. It stayed that way for a long time and it eventually started to become the norm for business owners to use blogs as a way of communicating [...]