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 of the work for you!  Check it out:

It works the same with YouTube, Vimeo and Viddler.  you can check out the post on my personal blog here: tjkimberly Star Wars Video

Or just look at this:

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.

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 randomly. Either way, if you are used to the visual editor, having it disappear can be quite a jarring experience.

The solution is usually pretty easy. Just click your username in the top right corner of your WordPress administration screen.  This will take you to your profile page.

The very first option on this page is a checkbox, which if checked will keep the visual editor from showing. Make sure this box is unchecked and then click the “Update Profile” button at the bottom of the page.

Now, go back to your “Add new” post page and you should see your editor. It will look similar to this:

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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, users will be able to find other articles you have written that are on or near the same subject of the article they are reading. This gives your visitors a much better experience with your website.

Setup Instructions

You can install this with the normal plugin installation routine. Then just view a single post (click the title from your homepage) and scroll to the bottom to see the list of related posts.

You will have to make sure your posts have tags of course, otherwise nothing will be listed! When you have related articles, it will look similar to this:

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 articles at the end of your post pages.

To add tags to your posts, look in the right sidebar of your post-editing page for the “Post Tags” box:

From this form field, you can enter the tags you want to use in a comma separated manner (as seen above).  If you then click the “Add” button, the tags will be created in your database and added to this post. This is displayed in the following manner:

You can also “Choose from the most used tags”, by clicking the link in the bottom of the “Post Tags” box. This will display a tag-cloud of post tags.  Click a post tag to associate it to your post

As you can see above, we clicked the “Posting” tag, and it was added to the list above.

If you go ahead and save your post, the tags are associated to your post. Visitors and search engines can now use the tags to find articles they are looking for!

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 way WordPress is setup, you cannot disable this feature without a plugin.  The reason is that WordPress does not have a built in setting to disable this functionality.  All they provide is the normal “hook” interface that they provide for plugins.

Now, the consolation prize is that you can do this with a very simple plugin.

But, if you want the email to go out to the new users too, then you need to use a plugin that already exists called the Disable WP New User Notification Plugin. This plugin comes well recommended and does everything the default wp_new_user_notification function in the WordPress core does, without sending an email to the site administrator.

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 navigate to Settings >> Writing.
2. Once you are on this page, you will see a page like this:

3. Just un-check the box indicated in the picture above (Convert emoticons like to graphics on display).

4. Save the settings with the button at the bottom and you are all done.

Any other questions or comments? Please feel free to contact us or leave a comment for us below.

Widgets are small applications you can drop into your website, the images below will help you to know how to use the widget management screen: