Category Archives: Wordpress

Widgets and Plugins?

WordPress widgets and plugins add functionality to your website. Widgets can be found on the WordPress Dashboard under Appearance. Choose the widget you want from the list on the left and then drag and drop it to where you want the … Continue reading

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Research Your Plugins

WordPress Plugins can do everything except clean your kitchen sink, it seems (and I hear they’ve started working on that one). Some plugins do wonderful things; others, not so much. And some plugins used to do wonderful things, but not any … Continue reading

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Use WordPress Mobile Templates to Boost Your Audience

Plugins can be used to create optimized versions of your site for cell phone. Users will see a condensed version of your site on their small screen. This makes is easier for them to navigate and to read your text. … Continue reading

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All WordPress Plugins Are Not Created Equal

WordPress plugins can be a marvelous things, or they can be a curse. I recently had a problem when a client started to receive about 1,000 emails a day from an unidentified source after I had installed and tested several … Continue reading

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The Most Popular WordPress Plugins

WordPress provides the platform, but WordPress plugins supply the magic. When you set up your WordPress website, you get the basics: the ability to add pages and posts, the ability to add links and images, and to amend your WordPress … Continue reading

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WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

The following is taken from WordPress.com: WordPress.com Benefits It’s free and super easy to set up All of the technical maintenance work is taken care of — Setup, upgrades, spam, backups, security, etc. Your blog is on hundreds of servers, so … Continue reading

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Back Up Your WordPress Database and Files Regularly

WordPress is vulnerable to attack by malicious sofware, also known as malware. Two of my clients had their WordPress files hacked within the last year. Luckily, in each case, backups of their files and mysql databases were available. To resolve … Continue reading

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Misty Look WordPress Template

The “Misty Look” is a popular WordPress template that is clean, relatively simple to configure and easy to update for web site owners who are looking for a useful, attractive springboard for their new Web presence. Features include: Sidebar widgets … Continue reading

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How to Insert “Continue Reading” Link in WordPress

To insert a “Continue Reading” , “Read the Rest of this Entry” or “More” link in your WordPress blog, open the “HTML” tab in your Edit Post Dashboard panel (found next to the “Visual” tab) and enter: <!–more–> This will … Continue reading

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Render Your WordPress Blog for Mobile Phones

MobilePress is a WordPress plugin that will render your WordPress blog on mobile handsets, with the ability to use customized themes. The MobilePress plugin will detect when your webpages are being viewed on a mobile phone and reformat the pages … Continue reading

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