Updated for WordPress 2.8: I had an interesting question from a client last night, wondering how come her gorgeous sidebars disappeared when she put widgets in them. Here's the scoop: Sidebars: Most of the time, the theme you are using gives you two options. First, you can just leave the sidebars without widgets and the default stuff will show up. Usually Categories, Archives by month, Search, Pages, and Meta Data. And the second option is to use Widgets. To use the default sidebars: In your administration panels, go to [Appearance] -> [Widgets]. Remove all widgets from within … [Read more...]
Inspiration: Babies Gotta Have It
September 29, 2009
This was a collaboration with the gals at Ruby and Roja. They put together these graphics to resemble 'film' which is appropriate since she is primarily a vlogger. And we added some cute titles in the sidebar with a punch of red, and a background of green - it is her stance that as a product reviewer, she can still be judicious in what she uses, and what she tosses. "A well-supplied baby can be a green baby! Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! Your baby will be glad you did." We are so happy to have Ruby and Roja to work with - they are simply amazing! AND, we couldn't be more proud of our … [Read more...]
How to add thumbnail images to excerpts
September 28, 2009
Of course there is more than one way to do this, but we'll use the plugin, "Thumbnail for Excerpts". Log into your Admin Panels and open the "Plugins" panel. Click on "Add New". Type: Thumbnail for Excerpts in the search box and click on the search button. The first search result should be the Thumbnail for Excerpts plugin by Radu Capan At the far-right of the search result, you'll see the link. Click on that. Click the "install" button. On the next screen, click the "activate" button. That's it! And now, IF your theme shows excerpts in any page - for example, the archives - then you … [Read more...]
Summary of Last Week’s Posts
September 28, 2009
I know a lot of you are subscribed with good intentions, but if you are like me, the 'business' posts get read last (or not at all)! So here's a summary of the posts of last week so you can see if you missed anything important! Let me know what you think of this idea - of a review post. There is so much material that I need to get on this blog for resources for all of you, that I need to punch out at least one post per day, which(in my opinion) is feed-reader-overload. Here's the Scoop: Coupons/ Specials [[Client Spotlight: ($5 coupon) Complete Organizing Solutions| $5 Coupon to Complete … [Read more...]
How to Display the Feed Button
September 25, 2009
To some people words like "feedreader" and "rss" make their eyes glaze over and focus attention to that speck on your tooth. So why not loose the geekeze, and make it easy for readers to subscribe? Let them, "get an email every time you post" instead of "subscribe in a feedreader". Here are the subscription options and displays for some of the best sites out there: Copyblogger: This is my favorite title for a subscription feed "email updates" - how could you mistake that? Note, that copyblogger's audience is primarily bloggers, and yet- why use geekeze like rss & feed when you … [Read more...]
Inspiration: Working with Semiologic
September 24, 2009
Nell of Casual Friday has had us design a few Semi sites for her. You can find out more about semiologic here. And take a peak at these for inspiration: What Nell says about working with us, Cathy is my go-to-gal for all things wordpress related. I can't even tell you how many times I've used her services in the past several months, or how many times she's saved my rear end by fixing something, or helping me figure out which plugins to use and so forth. I've found my wordpress guru and I'm never letting go! … [Read more...]
How to Upload a PDF in WordPress
September 23, 2009
We want to upload a pdf and create a link so others can download it in this tutorial. Go to Media >> Add New Select the pdf and upload. Click on Media List Click on the pdf's "View" It will take you to the post attachment screen (in your blog's front end) There is a link there with the name of your pdf. Right click or (ctrl on a mac) and Copy the URL of the pdf to the clipboard Then you can add that URL as a link to any text you like - in a post, page, or widget. … [Read more...]
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