Moving my blog to HTTPS brought many questions. Here is my simple, complete tutorial to move a WordPress site from HTTP to HTTPS, step by step.
10th Anniversary of SQL Authority – Thank YOU!
Ten years ago today I started this blog. On the 10th Anniversary of SQLAuthority.com, I answer the five questions readers ask me most, starting with the name.
Profitable Blog: How a Technical Blog Pays for Itself
A profitable blog starts with readers who trust the writer. This post shows how a technical blog pays for itself through ads, consulting and books. It ends with a short checklist for your own blog.
Blog Clean-Up: What a 20-Year-Old Blog Removed in 2026
A blog clean-up is the work nobody sees and every reader feels. This post lists what a 20-year-old blog removed and fixed in 2026: plugins, unused images, thin tags and dead announcements. Each step comes with a lesson for any blogger.
Blog Launch Checklist: What to Set Up Before Your First Post
A blog launch checklist saves you from mistakes that are hard to fix later. This post walks through domain and HTTPS, a phone-friendly theme, the About page, search, categories, ways to follow, analytics, tested backups and the first three posts.
Blog Ideas: What to Do When You Run Out of Things to Write
Every blogger hits the day when the list of blog ideas is empty. This post shows where new topics come from: your own questions, reader comments, mistakes you fixed and old posts that deserve a better answer, plus a simple way to keep an idea list.
Blogging Ethics: Credit, Copyright and Images
Blogging ethics comes down to saying where things came from. This post covers quoting versus copying, crediting and linking sources, the images you can use, including AI-generated ones, sponsor disclosure, public corrections and comments.