The FirstSiteGuide Blog

Sitemap, as its name already suggests, is a map of your site. To be more specific, a sitemap is a list of all of the pages found on your website. Sometimes, this list can be created manually in order to display structure of your site. By showing the list of your pages, you can show […] Read the full story

Google Webmasters Tools is a set of handy applications that can help you analyze your website and see how it’s dealing with the most popular search engine. Those tools will also help you manage your site in order to improve your SEO. If you’re serious about presenting your website to a broader audience, you shouldn’t […] Read the full story

A lot of people who are starting a WordPress blog get stuck on the first step – choosing between the “org” and the “com” version. Googling won’t do much good as most articles are just rants about which version is better (neither is better because they serve different purposes). And while they may appear the […] Read the full story

We don’t condone, approve nor encourage any illegal or malicious behavior! The purpose of this article is to explain how to hack or regain access to a WordPress site that belongs to you, or that you have rights to edit, admin, and access. Whatever you do, you’re doing it on your own.  Described methods will help […] Read the full story

Once you set up your permalinks, WordPress will use that structure in order to point browsers to content located on your server. It doesn’t matter if you left the default permalinks structure or if you customized it for SEO, your posts and page titles will automatically link to a unique URL set by WordPress. And […] Read the full story

Reaching for the Stars An astronaut with a wrench floats in the void of space, with only a smoking satellite for the company. Beside him are the words, “Posterous Spaces is no longer available.” On April 30, 2013, this popular service went down. At the time of its demise, Posterous had an estimated 60,000 daily […] Read the full story

Blogs are everywhere. Everybody, every business, everywhere, has a blog these days, some run on free platforms like Blogger and WordPress, but the majority of blogs are created on self-hosted platforms where you are in charge of everything. There are blogs on family, health, writing, music, news, a million other things, and, yes, blogs on […] Read the full story

When you just starting a blog you have many things to take into consideration, from choosing a domain name and web hosting services to writing content and promoting your blog. Whatever you started a blog as a creative outlet or to make some money, you probably want other people to see your hard work. After […] Read the full story

Tool description Summary. The “Blog Checker / Fifth Eye” tool comes in handy when you have to check big lists of websites (URLs). It lets you preview web pages in one display without annoying copy-paste processes and mark (vote) them Yes or No. By using this tool, you can review 100s of websites in less […] Read the full story

60 Free Blogger Icon Set We’re happy to offer a free useful icon set for you. This cool set of 60 New Blogger Icons was released by FirstSiteGuide and our friends from Infographics.kz for the WordPress Blog Community. The icons are available as PNG (in two sizes) and AI source files and FREE of use […] Read the full story

We’re happy to present you with the “Blogger Sans” font, which was custom-designed to be used on our website FirstSiteGuide.com. However, we would like to release this font 100% free, which means you are FREE to use it in any web design or blogging project with one condition. The font is licensed under the Creative […] Read the full story

When blogging began, the original purpose was for individuals to share their personal lives online, similar to an online journal. Over the last decade, blogging has evolved from having more personal to more professional goals. Instead of individuals solely blogging for their friends and family, blogging began to encompass professionals blogging for the public to […] Read the full story