How To Add Twitter to your Sidebar

I encourage twittering!  It's fun, and its good marketing for your blog!  Sign up at Twitter.com.  Fo'sure your first order of business will be to follow me!  @multimom, and then ya know, if there's time, there's Heather too:  @relocatedyank.  :D You might even be able to ask questions there, since ya know, we do it! (unlike the posting around here!)  Sorry 'bout the posting bit... I got a … [Read more...]

Everybody’s got one, do you?

It's one of the cool things about blogs.  You can read them in your very own "feed reader".  And for those who do this, it is quite likely the ONLY way they will read your blog.  So, we need to make sure that your blog is EASY PEASY for others to subscribe to.  (Subscribe = how they grab your blog and feed it to their reader.) 1.  Find an image of those RSS buttons. Here's over 35 styles, each … [Read more...]

Don’t do what I did

The easiest way to really screw up your blog is to make changes in the Theme Editor. They are permanent, and they are 'uploaded' immediately to the internet.  So there is no "undo" button.  If you want to change the font, colors, width of a column, etc, you can do this on your own computer, where there is an undo button.  I swear, it's the better way.  I know this.  From experience.  :) So in … [Read more...]

Every Post needs an Author

Every post needs an author, unless of course, you are the owner, author, and keeper of the blog.  If you would like to have your name on each post that you write, it is as simple as one line of code.  I've written it for you (me and the wordpress authors), and given you the step by step below: For most templates you will want this in the main index.php, archive.php and category.php templates.  … [Read more...]

Your Questions Answered: Changing the Font Size

A few days ago I posed the question on Twitter, "What do you want to know about Wordpress?" And surprisingly, people read my tweets because I got four good questions. So I'll start with the first. The Bloggess wants to know how she can change her font size on her blog. It's a good question.  The themes we get come with certain font sizes and they may be too small for us to read, so we fear that … [Read more...]

How to remove the generic title of your blog…

When you install your wordpress blog, the only things it asks you for is your blog name and your email address. So you enter them.  Then you upload the fancy new "clothes'' that you've just had designed for you and your blog title, appears in the header. You do what seems the simplest fix and that's to take it out of the Title line in the settings, but then you realize that your RSS feed doesn't … [Read more...]