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How to Create a Recipe or Photo Index in Genesis

April 17, 2012

These templates/snippets will work only if you have the Genesis Framework installed and a child theme active. This will provide a graphic / image based index of your photos or recipes categories. Before you start, you'll need this: FTP access Text / Code editor All posts for this index in one big category, for example, "Recipes" with all the sub-categories below that. Each post/recipe should be placed in one of the sub-categories. The ID of the main category WARNING: adding this code to your site can break it entirely - cause it not to show up. I recommend making … [Read more...]

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How to Start a Website – Introduction

April 11, 2012

There is simply so much information out there - how do you narrow down the pieces needed to start a website? I give you - the Start a Website series. The Intro How to Select a Web Host and Domain Name Can you Do It Yourself or Hire a Designer? - plus how to hire the right contractors Selecting Software the Big Bang Way A Nerd Glossary- that you can use as a reference when the jargon starts to make you cross-eyed. Top 10 tips for Attracting an Audience Recommended Tools to Measure Your Website Success I like things that are quick to read and succinct. So by skimming … [Read more...]

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How To Upload A Picture

January 30, 2011

We all know that pictures speak louder than words. And you have ideas about how you want your posts to look - but when starting out, there can be unending frustration in the how-to. We intend to start a short series on the beginner's steps to blogging with WordPress. Know someone who is going it without any technical support? Send them our way and we'll help them along over the coming weeks. How to Insert an Image 1) Log in into Wordpress admin panel and click "Add New" under Posts to create a new post. 2) Click the small image titled "Add an Image" besides "Upload/Insert" You … [Read more...]

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10 Proven Strategies to Increase Traffic

September 27, 2010

For the business person, we put content online to lure you into our web of products and information. For the mom blogger, we put a lot of love and sweat into our writing. And we love, love, love it when people read and comment! But for every popular blog on the web, hundreds more are read by Loyal Mom, and on some days, Loving Grandma. Writing a blog is usually a labor of love. And most of us are really truly surprised how much work it is to keep fresh, well written posts on the front page! For those of us who are hoping to turn our blog world into something more than a monthly … [Read more...]

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The Argument between WordPress and Thesis for the Lay Person

July 15, 2010

There's a big kafuffle going on right now in the tweet/ wordpress/ social world. Have you heard? Dave of ThinkDave.com summed it up the best: Bill Erikson sent out a Tweet explaining that WordPress had dropped him as a developer because he suppports Thesis (they feel Thesis violates the GPL). A bored 12-year old in Elbonia injected some malicious code into the Thesis 1.7 and 1.8 Beta releases, so that anyone installing the theme from these downloads got infected. It’s fixed now Matt smacked Chris across the face with a wet fish, suggesting he doesn’t know how to code (how many … [Read more...]

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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...]

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WordPress 2.8 and Google Analytics

June 22, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Hello all, I wrote here about upgrading to wordpress 2.8. And if you follow my directions, you will be able to log out and log back into your blog no problem. However, if you leave the plugins active, you will likely not be allowed back into your blog once you log out. You will need to erase/rename the offending plugin from your wp-includes/plugins directory. ***There is a conflict with the Google Analytics plugin that we provide to most blogs when we install them. To resolve this conflict: Please deactivate this plugin Install "Google Analytics for … [Read more...]