Archive for the ‘Basic Use’ Category
Monday, January 24th, 2011
Occasionally there comes a time when you need to disable your website to visitors, especially if you're setting up a website for a customer but it is in pre-launch stage. If you need do that you can drop some code into your header.php file quickly and easily using these instructions:
1. ...
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Thursday, January 13th, 2011
We're big advocates of favicons here at WP-Relief. They give a website a professional edge over any website without a favicon. In today's competitive internet markets that competitive edge can be the difference between no dollars, and lots of dollars, success and failure. You get the idea, so pay attention ...
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
We recently got this question from a reader Carol:
Is hosting a domain the same thing as maintaining it once it is set up?
Matt responded with an analogy that describes the difference between a domain, hosting, and maintaining a website.
That is a really good question.
A domain is like an address to ...
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Saturday, July 17th, 2010
I spent several hours trying to figure out how to post a YouTube video to WordPress just to find out that it's so EASY it actually becomes difficult. Here's the basics:
Post just the web address that the video is at in the Visual Editor on WordPress, it does the rest ...
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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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Monday, July 12th, 2010
Find a Domain
You need to have a domain. This is the name of the site or the URL that you type into a browser to get to your website. http://google.com is an example of a domain name.
To find a domain, you can use a tool like the one at BustAName.com. ...
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Plugin Home Page: http://tadhg.com/wp/wordpress-plugins/related-posts-by-tag-widget/
WordPress Plugin page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/related-post-by-tag/
What Is it?
The Related posts by tags widget will add a short list of articles that share tags with the article currently being read. This allows your visitors to click through another page on your blog and spend more time with your website. Also, ...
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Tags can be a very useful tool for allowing people and search engines one more way to find your blog articles. There are built in pages in WordPress for displaying related articles by tag, and you can even get a related posts by tag plugin to add links to related ...
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
The question we received through our contact form was:
Hey guys. I'm trying to figure out how to disable admin email notifications when a new user signs up without using a plugin. Any thoughts?
So I did some research into the code and found out that the answer is No, with the ...
Posted in Basic Use, Plugins | 5 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Basic Use, Configuration | 1 Comment »
