How Do I Install a Wordpress Theme?

[By shames at intogeek.com as per the recommendation of BlueHost Support via chat at 2am this morning.]

This process can seem daunting at first, but after you learn how to do it you’ll find installing a theme to your wordpress site is quite easy. All you need to start this is a wordpress site, and a theme .zip file already downloaded to your computer. If you don’t have a theme file to install yet, you can find many just by searching google.com for ‘wordpress themes’. Here are the steps to install a theme:

Which hosting service should I use for Wordpress?

The official WP hosting recommendations (http://wordpress.org/hosting/) are:

• Bluehost
• Dreamhost
• MediaTemple
• Laughing Squid

Affiliates' Wordpress Plugins, Widgets & Themes of Choice

The 2011 Affiliate Summit polled their attendees and then generously shared the results in the published Affiliate Summit Report.  There's a number of interesting findings, but I found two areas to be particularly  helpful.

First, it was determined that the most popular Wordpress theme used by affiliate marketers is.... [drumroll please] the "Affiliate Theme".  (how appropriate), and I plan to be checking it out asap.

And second, the top Wordpress widget of choice for affiliate marketers?  The Clickbank Widget.

Wordpress Tool: "Press This"

"Press This" is a bookmarklet: a little app that runs in your browser and lets you grab bits of the web.

Use it to clip text, images and videos from any web page. Then edit and add more straight from "PressThis" before you save or publish it in a post on your site.  It can be installed by dragging-and-dropping a link to your bookmarks bar, you can right click it and add it to your favorites for a posting shortcut.

Wordpress or Blogger?

I think I'm going to have to go back to Wordpress.  Regretably.  And this makes me sad.  So sad.   However, feel free to talk me out of it.   I'm very impressionable.   ::cry::