Archive for the ‘Configuration’ Category
Friday, November 5th, 2010
1. Open Wordpress Dashboard. Go to WP Options at the sidebar.
2. After Adding a new Carousel by (This will automatically add a new Carousel to Manage)..
Go to the Carousel Option. i.e.
- Now just Drag and Drop the things that you want to be in included in the carousel.. (It’s ...
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Similar to this post, you can add a new function that is called by the "user_contactmethods" filter. Then, unset the values for the contact methods you no longer would like.
For AIM, you would do the following in your functions.php file:
function bwa_remove_some_contactmethods( $contactmethods ) {
unset($contactmethods['aim']);
return $contactmethods;
}
add_filter('user_contactmethods','bwa_remove_some_contactmethods',10,1);
You can modify the other items ...
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
After you have found your ideal domain name, go to 1and1 to register it. All you have to do is find their "Domains" section, enter in the name you have already found and follow their instructions. Creating an account is very easy with 1and1.
If you already have a 1and1 account, ...
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
If you are only going to register 1 domain and you choose to get hosting with DreamHost, you can save the money and steps below by cashing in on your one free domain from them. The benefit here is that you can manage your hosting and domain registration in the ...
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
I have heard this complaint form a couple different people where all of a sudden their visual editor is gone and they only have the plain-text (HTML) version of editor. It seems like this mostly happens after an upgrade, but in older versions of WordPress it seemed to happen almost ...
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
I spent a good 30 minutes trying to figure out how to give a User administrator access throughout all of the the WordPress MU blogs. Here's what I found:
1) Under the Users Menu, click on the User's name
2) Click on the 'Grant this user super admin privileges for the Network.' ...
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Sometimes you want to make sure that your smilies do not get turned into graphics inside your posts. All you have to do is change one of your WordPress configuration settings.
Here are the steps to take care of this setting:
1. Log into the backend of your WordPress site and then ...
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
If you are not changing the domain of your WordPress site, please check out our article called "Moving Your WordPress Site to a New Server".
We will cover both scenarios of what to do if you need to change your WordPress domain name, the first being the "right" way to do ...
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
I really wanted to use WordPress Mu for Focus Of The Week, which is a site where I give people blogs and they post on their topic once a week.
WordPress Mu is a multi user platform for WordPress where you can manage multiple blogs from the same administrative area. It ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
When you get your site set up, or you have your site set up and you have found a theme you like and that fits your website's purpose, you need to install it.
Just about the only way to install your theme is to use an FTP program to push it ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
When you first install WordPress you will find that the theme is, well, bare. While some famous blogs like XKCD (also one of my favorite webcomics) choose to leave their blogs with the original theme, this sort of thing only works for people who already have TONS of traffic coming ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
From Wordpress:
Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to link to your article (or section), or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail message. ...
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