What a Difference a New Header Can Make

If you’re itching for a new look and feel for your WordPress site, you’re not automatically locked in to a complete site design overhaul. You have options. I have a perfect example of this to share with you via my friend, Patsi Krakoff. She asked me to create a new header for her site. Here [...]

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Sticky Posts and The Six Ws

In honor of Mrs. Williams, my 7th grade English teacher, I’m trying out a new kind of post format here: The Six Ws, (a.k.a. The Five Ws and One H.) She introduced me to them by quoting Rudyard Kipling and the tale of “The Elephant’s Child“: I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all [...]

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Why Google Loves WordPress and You Should, Too

You’ve probably heard me say it, but now you can hear Matt Cutts (the head of Google’s web spam team) say it: “Google Loves WordPress” The good news is Matt is a funny guy – very fun to watch/listen to. (Further proof that we geeky tech people really can have interesting personalities…) Which is a [...]

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Make Your WordPress Site/Blog More User-Friendly for SmartPhone Users

March 5, 2010 was the day I left my 26-year tenure as “a PC” and purchased an iMac. Since I opted for the desktop Mac, rather than the portable Mac Book Pro I’d been drooling over for months, I also upgraded my cell phone to an iPhone. O-M-G!! I’m in love with them both. Then [...]

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Edit Your Images in WordPress 2.9

WordPress released version 2.9 last week, and one of the best new features it offers is the ability to edit uploaded images! You can upload your image, click the ‘edit image’ button and crop, resize (scale), flip horizontally and vertically, and rotate your images and undo or redo your edits. Now, if that’s not incentive [...]

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What Are Categories and Tags and How Are They Used?

Categories are the broad topic divisions of your content, and tags are the more granular, specific topics you write about. Both are used to help make your content more accessible and your navigation easier, and both apply only to posts (not pages.) While you can add both categories and tags on the fly, it’s a [...]

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Sales Pages in WordPress? Yes, You Can!

Once upon a time, many moons ago, I had a bright idea. As with many of my bright ideas, I didn’t have the time at that moment to execute said bright idea, so it bounced around in the back of my head for awhile. What was my bright idea? To figure out a way to [...]

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Interview with Tom Volkar: WordPress Summer Camp 2009 Sneak Peek

At the request of several of the already registered campers who received this pre-camp BONUS call over the weekend, I am sharing it with you. As Marty Marsh so eloquently put it in an email to me: “I hope that all of your summer camp participants will listen, and I also hope that you won’t [...]

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WordPress 2.8 is Available! (and my list of plug-ins that don't like it)

WordPress 2.8 has hit the streets, folks, and there are some serious goodies awaiting you! WordPress 2.8 Highlights * Theme Browser and Installer * Ability to add Custom Headers * New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new Widgets API * New ways to customize dashboard widgets * Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin [...]

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Let Your RSS Subscribers Choose: Full Text or Summary?

WordPress automatically sets up two feeds for you: your posts feed and your comments feed. You have a choice on the posts feed to publish the full text of your post, or a summary. Which do you choose? Some of your readers may prefer full text feeds, while others prefer a summary. So which group [...]

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