Widgets: Editing a Widget

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 ...

WordPress Widgets: How to Use them, what they do

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Widgets were a HUGE deal when WordPress added them in as a feature, before adding them in to the core system widgets functionality was added through a plugin.  This was clumsy but it worked well at the time. Since being added to WordPress core widgets have allowed site owners to manage ...

Suggested Plugin: WP Super Cache

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Plugin Home Page: http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/ WordPress Plugin Page: http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/ What is it? This plugin will create cached versions of pages on your site when they are visited so that the next visit to that page will require less of your server's resources and load much faster than if the pages were generated by the ...

Create a Twitter Widget for your Website

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

Go to http://twitter.com/goodies/widgets.  Make sure you're logged in to your Twitter account and click on 'My Website' You'll then need to decide which Twitter Widget you'd like from the list.  You may have different needs but for tjkimberly.com I used the 'Profile Widget'. Then you can customize your widget's colors and appearance ...

WordPress Theme: WP-Polaroid Questionable Code

Friday, June 25th, 2010

Matt and I came across a nice business styled WordPress theme called WP-Polaroid. We both liked the style and format, and with some minor color changes we decided to make it the theme for our Spotted Koi Website. As I dug into it to make some edits we found a couple strange ...

WordPress Theme: WP-Polaroid RSS Feed Correction

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Having recently installed WP-Polaroid on our Spotted Koi business website we wanted to run through all the links and make some customizations.  We ran across a few oddities (like this one) including a BIG problem with the RSS Feed link. It seems the designer decided that our RSS Feed ...