This post is part of a series put together after I lost my blog on a holiday weekend. Thankfully because I had good backups in place I was able to restore it entirely aside from a few comments (which I was also able to replace). In this post I will share how to add a backup plugin to your WordPress blog so that you don't lose anything: for example, if your computer crashes, heaven forbid your web host crashes and… Read the rest

August 1, 2010: This post has been updated with new information resulting from an email conversation from Alex at Automattic, the creators of Akismet. It seems I made some incorrect assumptions on how Akismet works, so I would like to correct that information now. Following my original post you will find a few more questions that Alex answered for me. Some personal finance bloggers lately have been diving head first into my spam folder, no thanks to my Akismet plug-in. … Read the rest

I use Quicken to download transactions from my bank. In this series, I will give you step by step instructions, including screenshots of how to download transactions from your bank. In this series, I am using Quicken Deluxe 2010*. There are two options for downloading transactions.  Quicken can do it for your automatically using “Web Connect”, if your banking institution allows the method. The other option is to log into your checking account first using your web browser (Internet Explorer,… Read the rest

If you're a blogger, and you use Adsense, do you have a privacy policy in place? About a month ago I learned while reading this post over at Christian Personal Finance that any site which uses Google Adsense is required to have a privacy policy in order for the site to be within compliance of the Google Advertising Cookie and Privacy Policies.  Bob found when he put his privacy policy in place that his revenue from Adsense went up.  He… Read the rest