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How to add Related Posts to WordPress
2007-09-05 20:15:00 The following tutorial illustrates how to add Related Post entries to your Word Press blog. This is done in conjunction with the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin. If you aren't already using Ultimate tag warrior, I highly recommend adding it to your plugin list. There are so many awesome advanced features this plugin has to offer other ... More About: Wordpress , Posts
Problems with post text after upgrading to WordPress 2.2
2007-08-30 17:46:00 WordPress bloggers that have recently upgraded to WordPress version 2.2 may encounter strange character set or charset encoding problems where apostrophes, hyphens, quotation marks and dashes appear or are displayed in posts and pages as strange characters like â??, Â?., or even as simple ? (question marks). The symptom is obvious, your WordPress posts ... More About: Wordpress , Post , Problems , Text
How to manually upgrade WordPress
2007-08-30 16:58:00 The following tutorial explains how to quickly upgrade Word Press to a newer version. The process is fairly straightforward and simple, however, I have frequently caught people including myself being lazy on an upgrade skipping important steps of the process. I feel it’s important to perform a manual WordPress upgrade and not auto upgrade using a ... More About: Wordpress , Manual , Ally
Removing the limit of posts per page
2007-08-29 23:52:00 Removing the Word Press post per page limit: By default, WordPress posts are limited based on the posts_per_page setting. Making many of your older posts incredibly hard to find for both search engines and readers. Like many readers, I hate (pagination) having to read through pages of posts in a category one page at a ... More About: Page , Posts
Removing the WordPress sidebar bullets
2007-08-29 23:21:00 Remove bullets from the Word Press sidebar: The following tutorial is for those who use the default Kubrick WordPress theme or a derivative of it and want to remove the sidebar bullets to make for a cleaner looking blog. The bullets normally don’t appear if your using the Internet Explorer browser and although some people prefer ... More About: Wordpress , Sidebar , Bullets
WordPress Duplicate Sidebar Widgets
2007-08-29 20:13:00 The following Duplicate Sidebar Widget Plugin for Word Press allows a WordPress user to duplicate or copy sidebar widgets and use them on multiple sidebars or use the widgets more than once in the same sidebar. Duplicate Sidebar Widgets is based solely on the original Jaw Duplicate Widgets plugin. I have simply cleaned up a couple ... More About: Wordpress
WordPress Language Translator Plugin
2007-08-28 23:34:00 This language translator plugin and widget for Word Press 2.2.2 + is based solely on Trevors translator widget plugin. His plugin worked fine up to the latest WordPress version release. In WordPress 2.2, there are complications that caused his great plugin to break. The first problem was that one of the functions in WP 2.2 ... More About: Wordpress , Plugin , Language , Translator
WordPress Firefox and Position: Relative CSS problems
2007-08-27 15:03:00 When creating or editing the content of a Word Press Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), many people neglect to take the time to check their work using multiple browsers, IE. Opera, Firefox , Internet Explorer, Navigator etc. Unlike Internet Explorer and many of the other popular browsers, Firefox is one of the only browsers that properly use some ... More About: Wordpress , Problems , Posi
How to clear the Browser Cache
2007-08-20 17:09:00 In order to display any changes on a Web page, a user might click the Refresh button on the browser toolbar or press the F5 key on the keyboard. While this sometimes works, refreshing a page simply reloads the page without clearing the browser’s cache. Here are some additional techniques used by specific ... More About: Browser , Clear , Cache , Browse
WordPress broken by Plugin
2007-08-20 16:42:00 At some point in time, nearly every Word Press Blogger will experience a broken WordPress blog due to the recent activation of a non compatible plugin. A broken plugin can wreak all sorts of havoc on a WordPress blog including the inability to access the WordPress administration panel. In most cases, when a blog breaks, ... More About: Wordpress , Plugin , Broken
How to add an Ultimate Tag Warrior Tag Cloud
2007-08-17 22:48:00 The Ultimate Tag Warrior is an awesome plugin for Word Press that allows a Blog author to add keyword tags to your WordPress posts and pages. UTW is relatively simple to install and use, but contains many advanced features that the user can customize as well. For example, tag clouds (one of the most popular keyword ... More About: Cloud , Tag Cloud
What is a trackback and why how to use them
2007-08-16 21:48:00 A Trac kBack is a mechanism used for communication between blogs: if a blogger writes a new entry commenting on, or referring to, an entry found at another blog, and both blogging tools support the TrackBack protocol, then the commenting blogger can notify the other blog with a “TrackBack Ping”; the receiving ... More About: Word , Trackback
New Post does not show up for some people
2007-08-16 21:12:00 New Word Press Post is not showing up or displaying for some people: I get this question quite frequently and in almost every case, the Post is flagged as Private. The reason most bloggers think it has been posted and is viewable to the public is because private posts are viewable to those that are logged ... More About: People , Show , Some
WordPress - How to change the more tag text
2007-08-16 19:26:00 As a WordPress user, you may have noticed that you can insert a more tag to your posts so that only the text before this tag appears on the archive or category pages. By using the more tag, more post entries can appear on each page while still utilizing an introductory paragraph for each ... More About: Wordpress , Change , Text , Chang , Chan
Automate WordPress Post Publishing with Post Timestamp
2007-08-14 20:05:00 Automate Word Press Post Publishing : There are the many features WordPress Bloggers rarely take advantage of. One such feature is Post Timestamp. I typically use this feature when I plan to go on vacation, during holidays or when I know I will be busy with other things. The Post Timestamp settings allow me to set a ... More About: Wordpress , Stam
How to Turn off trackbacks and pingbacks
2007-08-14 00:05:00 The following article explains how to turn off Word Press trackbacks and pingbacks. In most cases, a WordPress Blog author might decide to disable comments if they are getting an overwhelming amount of spam. However, sometimes the spam can still get through in the form of trackbacks or pingbacks, enabling an abusive user to spam links ... More About: Trackbacks , Turn , Trac
Visual Acuity Eye Chart test
2007-07-30 20:43:00 An eye chart is typically used by Ophthalmologists and Optometrists to test a persons visual acuity. The eye chart is usually read in a dark room from a distance of 20 feet, but in many cases the chart is mirror reflected in the eye doctors offices due to a lack of room. Visual acuity ... More About: Test , Chart , Char
How to find your eyes blind spot
2007-07-25 18:41:00 Many people might not realize that every eye has a blind spot. Typically, when both eyes are open, one eye will make up for the blind spot of the other eye, allowing us to see the completed image being presented in our field of vision. However, when either eye is removed from the equation, the ... More About: Eyes , Spot , Find , Blind
Reading a blood test - understanding blood test results
2007-07-22 16:25:00 Have you ever had a blood test done and asked for the blood workup results? Most results will give you a reference range which is great. However, due to a lot of abbreviations and a lack of understanding what role certain chemicals play in the body, you might be confused as to what the results ... More About: Reading , Results , Blood , Test , Understand
WordPress with both Static Home and latest Blog Posts Pages
2007-07-18 00:59:00 This article explains how to run a static front or home page while still resuming the chronological blog posts on another page. This basically allows a user to have both a Website and chronological Blog of the same content. For example if you write a page titled blog, it would be accessible separately at www.yoursite.com/blog. ... More About: Wordpress , Word , Home , Posts
Testing your Eyes for Macular degeneration
2007-07-11 18:56:00 Macular degeneration or “AMD” can be described as a slow and painless loss of vision. Early signs of AMD may vary from seeing shadowed areas in your central vision to somewhat fuzzy or distorted vision. Age related macular degeneration “ARMD” has been considered by professionals, a leading cause of vision loss and ... More About: Eyes , Testing , Generation
Color Blindness test
2007-07-11 18:25:00 After recently encountering a sudden loss of vision in both eyes, I have found it necessary to learn more about my eyes, and more importantly how to use simple tests to check the eyes for different conditions, disorders and potential disease. One test I find interesting is named the Ishihara test for color blindness. ... More About: Color , Test , Blindness
How to create trademark and copyright symbols
2007-06-21 03:20:00 How to create trademark and copyright symbols: The following short tutorial explains how to create those neat circled C copyright, circled R registered trademark and TM trademark symbols. These symbols are often considered more visually appealing and generally produce less clutter than standard text. More About: Copyright , Mark , Copy , Trademark , Create
Making a WordPress post template
2007-06-19 00:19:00 Do you publish Word Press posts on a regular basis which use the same structure? Maybe you have a signature or picture you would like to add to every post? You can eliminate the time spent going back and forth between posts doing copy and paste functions by simply creating a post template. A post ... More About: Wordpress , Post , Template , Late
Customizing the WordPress WYSIWYG TinyMCE visual editor
2007-06-18 19:27:00 Adding addtional buttons or tools to WordPress WYSIWYG TinyMCE visual editor: Like most people, you probably enjoy using the built in TinyMCE visual editor that is included with WordPress. However, by default the included WYSIWYG editor lacks some essential tools like font color, font size, font family and more. The good news is that ... More About: Wordpress , Visual , Editor , Custom
Add a button to change font color in WYSIWYG
2007-06-18 16:24:00 By default the WordPress WYSIWYG editor is pretty basic. In my opinion, the average WordPress user is probably one that does not know or care to learn a lot about html (they just want to blog). In which case most people that use WordPress are likely to use the WYSIWYG visual editor over the code ... More About: Color , Change , Button , Font , Butt
Cable Splitters for Road Runner and Time Warner services
2007-06-15 21:03:00 What kind of coaxial cable splitter should one use with Time Warner digital cable and Road Runner high speed internet services? We currently have Time Warner digital cable, cable phone and broadband internet services in our house. During a trial and error approach, I have come to the conclusion that 5Mhz to 2Ghz splitters tend ... More About: Services
Block AdSense Ads with Opera Web Browser
2007-05-31 04:09:00 Unlike Firefox, the Opera Web Browser can be setup to block Google AdSens e Ads without the addition of a plugin. Enabling Opera to block AdSense Advertisements is a simple process that can be done via it’s Advanced preferences as explained in the following tutorial. More About: Adsense , Ense
Windows Error Codes and what they mean
2007-05-30 22:17:00 What do those Window s Error Codes Mean?: Inevitably, every Windows user is bound to encounter at least a few error codes during their experience with the Windows Operating environment. Wouldn’t it be helpful to have a little more information as to why these errors occurred and what they mean? Luckily there is a free program ... More About: Indo
How to setup multiple users in Outlook Express
More articles from this author:2007-05-29 22:36:00 Share Outlook Express with multiple users: The following tutorial explains how to share Outlook Express with other users in your household while password protecting your e-mail via the use of identities. If the people in your household share the same computer and you don’t want to use a separate Windows login for every ... More About: Setup , Xpress , Users , Look 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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