Most navigation bars on WordPress themes are lists of WordPress Pages (not posts). If this is how your nav bars are configured, you can easily change both the items in the nav bar, as well as the order of them. To Change the Order of the Items 1 go to Page Panel(#1), hover on the page you'd like to edit, click on "Quick Edit" (#2). 2 - for each page, edit the 'order'(#3) like this: … [Read more...]
WordPress 2.9
Another chic WordPress release. One of the reasons I trust WordPress to store my writing (which is rare and precious these days) is the huge community that supports it. Fortunately, the days of a lone geek in his mama's basement are long past for WordPress. In this release there were over 4001 contributors! So, to the new goodies in this version: image editor in the media module (as … [Read more...]
My research into Commercial Email Marketing Providers
I did some research a couple months ago into newsletter services for our DSWP monthly newsletter. There are a number of plugins, and most combine the newsletter recipient info with the WordPress user registration tables. In my case, I needed to also combine the sign-up form from the Members Only site. And all that information is only for the sign-up form!! Then we have to put this data into … [Read more...]
Get your blog numbers in the dashboard
Image via Wikipedia Most of us use, or once used, Google Analytics for thorough analysis of our blog numbers. By numbers, I'm referring to the numbers of site visits, or number of pages that were visited in a day or week; numbers can also refer to the number of comments you receive or number of clicks until someone leaves your website. Although Google Analytics has nearly everything you'd want … [Read more...]