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WordPress is very very easy to use and I think it is one of the best blogging platforms out there.  Almost everything you can set up yourself and you usually don’t need any help to quickly get a good looking blog up and on the web.  But sometimes you want to take things to the next level or sometimes you start messing with code that you aren’t quite sure what are doing.  Where do you go for help?  Many of my friends call me and I tweak it til it gets fixed. Who do I call for help?  Well until recently – I wasn’t sure.

I was really happy to learn about this site WeFixWp.com.  I think I learned about this site from Chris Brogan and I am going to hire them to help me fix up the back end  and the theme on IheartPGH.com, which has had more than a few hiccups in the past and to help me update the theme.  It is time for a blog makeover and I think getting some outside help with that will help improve the whole blog.

When I set up IheartPGH – I didn’t know what a blog was and I wasn’t planning on setting up an ongoing site that would actually get traffic so I found the cheapest web hosting I could find.  As the site grew I forgot about the hosting and it finally came to a big bad crash and we were offline for almost a month.  the folks at El-chepo- hosting were of no help.  I blogged a plea for help and thankfully an old intern came to the rescue and moved everything over to a hosting account at Media Temple.  Thus far – Media Temple has been great – no down time and they have 24 hours phone support.  Meida Temple also allows you to host multiple urls on 1 hosting account.  There are still some kinks on the back end and I have been afraid to upgrade wordpress ever since.  So I am turning to the folks at WeFixWP.com to help with the repair/upgrade.

Some more reading about taking your blog to the next levle

• Need Your WordPress Fixed
• Shall We Talk? Easy Blogging For Blog Newbies
• Need Your WordPress Fixed