Get the total post count across all your WPMU blogs

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

Just drop this code into a script in your blog's root directory:

Widgets: Adding a Widget

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 ...

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 ...

Widgets: Removing a Widget

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.

Widgets: Recent Posts

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Shows a list of the most recent posts that you have published on your site.  This is very useful if someone comes to a specific place on your site without seeing the homepage.

Plugin: Post Notification

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Plugin Home Page: http://pn.strübe.de/ WordPress Plugin Page: http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/post-notification/ What is it? This plugin will send an email to anyone who subscribes to be notified whenever a new post is published on the site. Install Directions Follow the normal plugin installation procedure, then once the plugin is installed you will want to add the widget to ...

Suggested Plugin: Related Posts By Tags

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, ...

Upgrading my Swift Theme completely broke my site

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Over at Journey To a Better Man, we use the Swift theme.  So far we have absolutely loved it because it provides some great functionality that helped us to get a clean theme out of the box that has some great and easy customization tools. Everything was going great, until 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 ...