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Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
Most themes that have widgets setup a default display of widgets in the sidebar that only shows when you have not specifically added widgets.
When even one widget is added through the Appearance >> Widgets area, the default display that is defined in the theme is overridden. At this time, only ...
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Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
You need to modify the PHP in your single.php script to look at whether comments are on or off.
You can wrap all of the comment functionality in your theme file (single.php) with:
if ( comments_open()) {
//comment stuff from theme in here
}
You may have to play games with php tags (<?php or ...
Posted in Toubleshooting WordPress | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
How to set up Twitter Tools?
Here are detailed instructions to complete your set up for your Twitter Tools.
If you haven't connected to twitter, the image below will guide you on how to do it. All you need is to follow the instructions and you will have your Twitter Tools connected.
To ...
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
Twitter Tools
Plugin Home Page: http://alexking.org/projects/WordPress
WordPress Plugin Page: http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/
What is it?
Twitter Tools allows WordPress to post the title and link to all of your articles to Twitter as they are published.
You can use this plugin to create posts from your Twitter messages, but we do not suggest this as it gets ...
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
WordPress Plugins
Plugins are one of the best features of WordPress. They allow you to extend the functionality of the default WordPress site to do thousands of different things. All you have to do is put a couple files in the right place on your server using the built-in Plugin Installer ...
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Installing Plugins
There are two ways to install Plugins. Through the Automatic Plugin Installer (the easy way) and through FTP (the less-easy way). We'll cover both methods here.
Using The Automatic Plugin Installer
Go to the Plugins page in WordPress
Click "Add New" at the top of the page next to "Manage Plugins"
Search for ...
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Builds a list or drop down of all of the categories that you have used on your site. The categories will be linked to a list of posts that have this category assigned to them.
Posted in How to set up your website, Widgets | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Adding a Widget
To add a widget all you have to do is go to your widgets admin page and drag one of the available widgets into one of the available locations. Each of the available locations are on the right side with a grey background and are directly associated with ...
Posted in How to set up your website, Widgets | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Editing a Widget
To edit a widget, all you have to do is click the arrow on the right side of the widgets you have already added to your sidebar. The widget edit interface will fly out and some options will appear. You can change any of the options, press the ...
Posted in How to set up your website, Widgets | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Removing a Widget
You can remove a widget by opening the "edit" interface for the widget and then clicking "delete". You can also drag the widget out of the sidebar box and drop it somewhere else.
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Puts a search box on your site that will allow visitors to search all of the content on your site by keyword or phrase. When users search then WordPress will list out the posts that match the search criteria.
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Shows all of the blogroll or other links that you have added to your site. In your sidebar each link section will be listed out with the links under the section header.
Posted in How to set up your website, Widgets | 1 Comment »
