Archive for July, 2007

WordPress Guide To Writing A WordPress Post

Writing a new WordPress post is pretty straight forward, you login, click write and the Write Post screen appears. But depending on what plugins you have installed you may have some different options available to you. This WordPress Guide will cover all the important options available within the WordPress write post screen.


Adding MyBlogLog Widget To A WordPress Blog

You probably have seen the MyBlogLog widget on a few WordPress blogs. It has pictures of the latest visitors of the blog shown on the sidebar. What is MyBlogLog? Taken from the MyBlogLog About page: “MyBlogLog enables you to take advantage of your existing presence on the Web and ties it into communities of like-minded readers and authors to add context to the conversations in which you take part.”


WordPress Discussion Options WordPress Guide

Allowing your visitors to comment on your WordPress blog is a great way to encourage interaction and repeat traffic. With the use of the Akismet comment spam plugin, or your favorite comment spam plugin. And The Subscribe To Comments plugin, you can allow comments with very little moderation on your part. This short WordPress Guide will provide you with a balance of allowing comments without letting them over run your WordPress Blog.


WordPress Categories Adding Subcategories To Your WordPress Blog

Adding subcategories, or as it is done in a WordPress blog, adding a category to a parent category is an easy way to keep your blog organized and easy to navigate. This Short WordPress guide will show how to add categories in a parent category.


Getting To Know The WordPress Dashboard

The WordPress Dashboard may look a bit overwhelming to the first-time blogger. With all the different menus, or panels as I call them, and subpanels, it can be hard to figure out where to get started. This quick little WordPress Guide will help familiarize you with the WordPress dashboard.


Change WordPress Default Theme Header Colors

The default WordPress theme is probably the most popular and base of many other themes that have been created after it. Changing the color of the default themes header is a way to keep a simple uncluttered look yet making it stand out and look different.


Working With WordPress Text Widgets

Adding additional WordPress text widgets and what to do when you need more. The easiest way to Customize WordPress is working with WordPress widgets. Adding items to your sidebar and moving them into the order you want is easily accomplished by simply dragging and dropping. You can also add anything you want including HTML code into a text widget.


WordPress First Full Post Remainder As Excerpts

How to change the main page of your WordPress blog to show the latest post in full and the remainder as excerpts. This is a good way to reduce duplicate content and help your readers find what they are looking for without scrolling through full posts on the main blog page.


Install And Configure AdSense Deluxe WordPress Plugin

AdSense-Deluxe is an easy-to-use WordPress plugin for WordPress 1.5+ (including WP 2.0) for quickly inserting Google or Yahoo! ads into your blog posts, and managing when and where those ads are displayed. Instructions with video…


Upload WordPress Themes and Plugins From The Dashboard

OneClick is one of the best plugins for people who are always tinkering with their WordPress blog. Easily upload new plugins and themes from within the WordPress dashboard.