I got slammed on Twitter

Out in the bright light of social media, I twittered the following yesterday: “Oh the horror of someone claiming 2 b a WordPress Expert when they clearly are not! ARRRRRGGGGGG” I had been called in to help with a blog on which the previous “customizer” told the client that the only way to get her [...]

How to Remove a Page from Menus Two Ways

So you have a page that may have outlived it’s usefulness for now, but you don’t want to lose all your hard work in formatting it? No worries – there are a couple of solutions available to you with WordPress. First, if you have the Exclude Pages plugin, simply open the page in the WordPress [...]

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RE VA's Take Note of this WordPress Plugin

For all my REVA sisters out there, a great plugin for your clients WordPress powered websites. Roger Theriault has created a plugin called “Great Real Estate” to enable your WP site to display current listings and allow you easy access to the info thru the WP admin interface. From WordPress.org: The property information and listing [...]

Why WordPress is the Right Choice for Frugal VA's

Any small business owner, Virtual Assistant or otherwise, knows that having a 24/7 web presence acting as your virtual storefront is a great idea. But the upkeep on a straight HTML site can be daunting for new VA’s, or experienced VA’s who do not handle the more technical aspects of the own, or their clients’, [...]

A funny thing happened in WP :)

I created a page for a new site in WP and in the text was a numbered list with a close bracket after each number – ie. 1) 2) etc. When I was proofing and arrived at number 8, I had a huge LOL moment.

Gratitude in Business

As our American friends mark Thanksgiving day, I wanted to just take a minute and ask all of my work at home friends to quickly take note of three things in your business that you are grateful for. Here are my 3: 1) Diversity in my clients – each is a unique and wonderful being [...]

Overcoming a Virtual Assistant Business Identity Crisis

What is your business all about? Are you the go-to Virtual Assistant for a book promotion?

Use Paste from Word – or Else!

I had an unusual assignment yesterday – a WP post that was showing the title from one post and partial content from another post. And when you clicked on the title for the post, nothing at all showed – no content at all! And this was only happening in IE. How to figure it out? [...]

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Using Twitter in Your Social Media Marketing Mix

I have just installed the Twitter Tools plugin on the VADiva blog and I am quite pleased with the results. Adding Twitter to my social media mix was inspired by one of the team leaders I work with, and as a result I have actually gained clients thru Twitter.

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