Kevin S Brown

If you have read posts here, you will see I know some things about using WordPress. Readers contact me frequently, with questions about their sites and I always try my best to help. A couple of months ago, I heard first from Joy. Not only did she get me to sort-out her WordPress challenges, she [...]

After many 2.x versions of excellent WordPress, the new 3.0 version is soon to be fully released. So I thought I should take a look and install the latest WordPress 3.0 Release Candidate (RC1) as a demo site. To install WordPress, I almost always use the automatic Fantastico service included with my hosting. It makes [...]

You may already know, I enjoy astronomy as an amateur observer. So it will come as no surprise, I write an astronomy blog… Using the internet delight WordPress (of course). I do use basic SEO strategies, but mainly, I just try to produce good content which visitors will enjoy and find useful. Today, the traffic [...]

It depends on your web hosting service, but sometimes when I try to edit the theme on a new WordPress self-hosted blog, I get this error message.. ‘You need to make this file writable before you can save your changes’ Here’s a short video on how to solve this problem, by setting the theme file [...]

Today, I was updating one of my many WordPress blogs, with some new content. I was not writing new posts… Just editing existing posts to add new images I’d found, plus tidying a few bits to improve readability. Then it struck me.. the DATE at the top of the posts, still showed the original creation [...]

If you look at your browser address bar as you’re reading this blog, you’ll see my favicon image. It’s the sweet-looking, small speech-bubble image, with the letter “K” inside. [now different] And if you add this blog to your favorites or bookmarks (and I hope you will!), you’ll also see the image appear in your [...]