11/13/2008
Tools I Use: Wordpress
Wordpress is awesome. If you’re not using it to build your websites, what are you thinking?
So, this video is a bit longer than I said yesterday was acceptable, but I think you’ll find it interesting. If not, you can always watch it at 2x normal speed!
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I met Matt at Wordcamp Utah back in September.
Here’s where you can find Jeff’s outsourcing workshop and his monthly outsourcing coaching as well as his free ebook on outsourcing.
The websites I show in this are:
My point of this is to help you realize that you can make wordpress do anything. I think it’s worth spending a few hours of your time looking at the wordpress plugins, wordpress themes, and looking at the options inside your wordpress website and configuring it to do the things you want it to do. I think that time will pay off over and over again over the years as you use Wordpress to build different websites. It’s amazing how much easier your business becomes when you know you can make your website do whatever you want without having a webmaster or a programmer to do it.
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Great information John!! Keep the emails coming but, don’t tell anyone else but me
Hi Jjonas,
U are rights Wordpress also seo freindly..i love to use wordpress since first time i start blogging…
Hey,
I just watched your video at 1.8 times the speed - you just saved me some serious time!
Also, I’m a member of replacemyself and I just hired a full time person - you da man John!
Great tip!
A headsup though; it doesn’t work for Chrome.
I switch between Chrome and Firefox pretty frequently so it’s not such a big problem for me
Hey John,
Where do we get salesletter themes from?
I had one some time ago but have since reverted to using html for those.
Might consider switching back because what you said does make sense; there’s simply no advantage of html over wordpress, and wordpress blogs get indexed so much faster.
One request!
Can you do a video about your ABSOLUTELY kewl multiple monitor setup behind?
I’ve been wanting to do a dual monitor but have no idea how much it’s going to benefit me.
I tried it for a day or so previously but it seems like I’ve gotten too used to windows-d-ing and always end up clearing BOTH my desktops.
Would be really interesting to see how you use them!
Hi John,
You mentioned Semiologic as the theme you use for your blog. Is that the basic (free) one or their pro version that you are using? I’ve been using Semio free theme for a while but would be interested to hear your opinion about all the plug-ins and features of the paid version, based on your experience.
Thanks.
@Derek
I use Semiologic Pro. I couldn’t tell you a difference between the pro/free versions because I’ve never used the free version. I’ve been using the paid version for a few years and have never even looked at the difference. My guess is that you can find everything that’s in the paid version for free in different places online…but I’m not sure about that.
John
Yeah I use Wordpress all the time too, unless its a membership site or a salesletter type of site, for which I feel there are much better solutions.
Such as?
Great post I love the tools. I use Semiologic. I read they are going to or have been sold. I wonder what this will do to the product?
Good Stuff John. Gonna give the FAQ plugin a whirl!
Great John,
How do you put the video on your website like this?
Also how do I use Cheap Web Masters?
@Simon - I use the mediacaster plugin for wordpress to put the videos on the site (although…now I just send the videos to one of my guys in the Philippines and he does it for me)
Here’s where you’ll find cheap web masters. I’ve never found anything better.
John
I really like your blog - you have terrific posts. I just started a blog and I’m having a little trouble with thinking of what to post!! Any tips???
Also, I haven’t read the book “getting things done” yet… but just wanted to know if you wouldn’t mind sharing what the very BEST tip was?? Please share
Thanks,
Traci Moore
http://www.tracimoore.com
Hi John
That was brilliant! You’ve just answered several questions that I’ve had lurking and bothering me for ages with superb simplicity and clarity. A big big thanks!
I can’t wait to get at the video speed-up as my email is jam packed with the latest Guru launch 50+ minute videos. Some great content (maybe)but where do the days go?!
Mike Kingston
John,
Thanks for the tip on MySpeed this is a really great tool and I am amazed at how slow everything seems when you slow it down.
Thanks,
Robert
John,
I love the semiologic theme as well. I am going to look at some of the plug ins you mentioned. I am a member of your replacemyself as well and love the value you give.
keep em coming John awesome stuff you’re sharing.
I agree that wordpress can make some nice looking sites but finding themes can be a pain. I search for themes and think I have found the perfect one only to find out it does not work correctly after I install it.
I used it with Chrome, no problems.
Hi Jonas,
Definitely wordpress is an amazing tool
I love the semiologic theme as well.
Anyone know of a video speed-up tool for Mac?