Author Archives: Edward R. Jenkins

About Edward R. Jenkins

Edward is a Florida-based webmaster, writer and photographer. He's built several well-trafficked WordPress based websites over the years. His current projects include TechBunk and The American Liberal.

WordPress User Roles for Multi-Author Sites

WordPress has a history of winning CMS-related awards, including Best Overall Open Source CMS in 2009. But purists may argue WordPress’s label of content management system, while insisting that it’s instead a supercharged blog engine.

In reality, they have a valid point. Out of the box, WordPress is lacking many standard features found on modern content management systems, including a viable user-role management system. In its default state, WordPress is ideal for single-author blogs. But what happens if you want to launch a multi-author site or expand your present blog to include outside contributors? Such setups are typical for newspaper and magazine-style sites. In the future, WordPress may expand its features to cater to such users.

In the mean time, you’ll need to utilize plugins and make modifications to WordPress if you want to give it the traditional CMS user-role capabilities necessary for a site with multiple authors [...]

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Moving from WordPress.com, Blogger or Typepad to a Self-Hosted WordPress Site

Are you a newbie to the blogging world and considering WordPress? Or perhaps you’re a longtime WordPress.com user looking for more control over your blog. If so, you’re probably wondering what the difference is between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, and what it means to you [...]

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How To Move WordPress to a New Host

The process of moving WordPress to a new hosting company once seemed so daunting to me that I spent almost two years with a Web host I was very unhappy with. The site in question received a fair amount of traffic and was a consistent earner. I didn’t want to jeopardize those earnings by switching hosts and dealing with potential complications.

When I sold said site to a somewhat technically-challenged buyer, I had no choice but to dive right in. The simplicity of the move and lack of downtime amazed me, and I’ve since gone on to move the majority of my Web properties to a much faster, more reliable host [...]

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