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Installing Wordpress Locally So You Can Modify or Create Wordpress Themes
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Have you ever wanted to try your hand at modifying or creating your own Wordpress themes? Maybe you thought it would be ridiculously hard to do or far beyond your scope of knowledge, but modifying Wordpress themes and templates are not quite as hard as you might think.
Do You Know Your HTML?
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Show Me The Money List – Ways To Monetize Your Blog With Affiliate Products
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Anyone new to blogging eventually ponders whether or not to monetize their blog with products and services closely related to their chosen topic. While I can’t tell you whether or not you should or shouldn’t make some money from your blogging, I will say that there is no shortage of products [...]
Which Wordpress Plugins Will Really Help A New Blog?
In the spirit of helping others get the most out of their Wordpress blogs, I’m divulging the list of plugins I use on my blog in the hopes that it helps someone out there get more functionality out of their blog software. Feel free to try these plugins yourself and recommend any plugins you feel [...]
How To Configure Your Blog’s Wordpress Settings
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As a new blogger you’ve probably gotten Wordpress all loaded up to your server by now and even though you might not be too familiar with the Wordpress Admin dashboard you can’t wait to get your blog on and write your first post. While you could by all means get straight to blogging [...]
What Permalink Structure Should You Use For Your Wordpress Posts?
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In the Wordpress Admin there is a Settings tab and within that tab is the Permalinks tab. Setting up this area of your blog administration is crucial to having your blog post urls (or links) be the way you want them. The default setting for your posts is p=”whatever the post id number [...]
The Basics Of How To Style A Wordpress Post
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Now that you’ve gotten your blog up and running you’re probably already writing posts but some unusual anomalies have crept into your work. You’ve perhaps wondered why your text is not wrapping around your images? Or perhaps you find that you have oodles of whitespace to the right of your posts because your [...]
Graphic Giveaway: A Couple Of Free Graphics For Your Blog Or Design Projects
Hey everyone today I’ve been clearing out some old files on my computer and I came across some graphics I’ve made from random thoughts in my head, but that I haven’t been able to use in a practical application in my online works so far. So instead of tossing them into my recycle bin I’ve [...]
Where To Find Wordpress Themes and Templates For Your Blog
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Congratulations on getting your Wordpress blog installed! Now you can start blogging…what’s that? You despise the default Kubrick theme that comes with all Wordpress installations? I for one find that very hard to believe, I mean look at that theme…it’s simple, it’s rounded at the corners….it’s a sea of blue…
Okay, okay so there’s [...]
Wordpress Missed Schedule Future Posts Fix
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When I upgraded my Wordpress version to 2.7, the ability to schedule posts in Wordpress 2.7 no longer worked. I could still schedule a post but the scheduled time would come and go with no future post being published. All that I could see in the Wordpress dashboard was “Missed Schedule” no matter [...]
How To Install Your Wordpress Blogging Platform Manually Via FTP
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Setting your blog using Fantastico scripts is pretty quick and easy but what if you don’t have Fantastico scripts or cPanel hosting? Well then you will need to learn how to install Wordpress manually using FTP or File Transfer Protocol. In a previous post I outlined how FireFTP is by far the best [...]
