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Editing Your Existing List of Links in Wordpress

Tom — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:57:27 +0000

If you’d like to go back and reassign the categories your links and blogrolls fall under, this video will walk you through how to get it done in a short space of time.

Creating Pages in Wordpress

Tom — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:53:16 +0000

Pages are static, evergreen content on your blog. This short video walks you through how to create an about-me page, or any other page you’d like to feature on your blog.

How To Write and Publish a Post in Wordpress

Tom — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:47:36 +0000

The thing you’ll probably be doing most with WordPress is writing and publishing posts which is covered in this short video tutorial.

Wordpress Plugin – My Link Order

Tom — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:53:56 +0000

One frustration I had in the past with Wordpress was organizing my link navigation. I tried for a while using the WordPress Navigation Tool (NAVT) plugin, but found that it was a bit quirky and unpredictable. Recently I’ve discovered and have been using the My Link Order plugin.

My Link Order allows you to set the order in which links and link categories will appear in the sidebar. Uses a drag and drop interface for ordering. Adds a widget with additional options for easy installation on widgetized themes.

This is one of my favorite Wordpress plugins.

Errors with Wordpress Comment Login

Tom — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:36:54 +0000

I’ve found that on some of my Wordpress sites since upgrading to version 2.7 that if a user clicks on the link to login to leave a comment they would not be taken to the login page. I was able to fix it by copying some code from the default comments.php file to the theme I’m using.

Old code:

You must be /wp-login.php?redirect_to=”>logged in to post a comment.

New code:

You must be /wp-login.php?redirect_to=”>logged in to post a comment.

I hope this helps anyone experiencing the same problem.

Adding Wordpress Plugins

Tom — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:17:34 +0000

One of the many improvements in Wordpress 2.7 is the ease of adding and updating plugins. In the past you had to download the plugin, unzip the file and transfer the files back up to your site via FTP.

Now when a plugin becomes outdated and requires an update you simply click on the update link. In addition from the Manage Plugins page there is a Plugin Browser/Installer function. It just can’t get any easier. Once you’ve found a plugin you like, click on install. It will tell you if the software has been tested on your version of Wordpress.

You can see what plugins are available at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

Website on a Budget

Tom — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:00:00 +0000

I often get asked how much does it cost to build a website. Of coarse there’s no clear cut answer to that. Every site is different, but the initial costs are:

Domain name registration
Hosting and
Design

After you made your decision on that great domain name, who will host and design your site it’s more about adding/maintaining your content and getting some traffic to your site.

So, let’s say you own a small business, are in a band or have some product to promote and are on a tight budget. How can you have a decent website? I say the answer is to use Wordpress. Although any wed design knowledge is helpful, you don’t necisarrily have to be a web designer to run a Wordpress site. Version 2.7 is very cool and more intuitive in my opinion than past versions. Here’s a presentation on some of the features:

Installation is easy and once you become familiar with the interface you’ll be able to create your own pages and posts. You can catagorize and tag your content to keep it organized and easy to navigate your site as well as add key words and descriptions for search engines. Oh, and did I mention this software is absolutely free?

There are also endless plugins available to add functionality and design themes.

I’ll be adding more articles on some of my favorite tip and plugins. Until then, happy blogging!

75 websites you can submit your blog to

Tom — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:34:45 +0000

I found this article today that looks like it has lots of useful links for increasing traffic to you blog http://www.bloggingtips.com/2007/11/29/blog-rss-directories/

Installing Wordpress

Tom — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:39:52 +0000

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it. If you host your website with Web Hombres, Worpress can easily be installed from your control panel. If you host your site elsewhere I can still install it for you if your hosting package meets the minimum requirements.

Key Features

Full standards compliance — We have gone to great lengths to make sure every bit of WordPress generated code is in full compliance with the standards of the W3C. This is important not only for interoperability with today’s browser but also for forward compatibility with the tools of the next generation. Your web site is a beautiful thing, and you should demand nothing less.
No rebuilding — Changes you make to your templates or entries are reflected immediately on your site, with no need for regenerating static pages.
WordPress Pages — Pages allow you to manage non-blog content easily, so for example you could have a static "About" page that you manage through WordPress. For an idea of how powerful this is, the entire WordPress.org site could be run off WordPress alone. (We don’t for technical mirroring reasons.)
WordPress Links — Links allows you to create, maintain, and update any number of blogrolls through your administration interface. This is much faster than calling an external blogroll manager.
WordPress Themes — WordPress comes with a full theme system which makes designing everything from the simplest blog to the most complicated webzine a piece of cake, and you can even have multiple themes with totally different looks that you switch with a single click. Have a new design every day.
Cross-blog communication tools— WordPress fully supports both the Trackback and Pingback standards, and we are committed to supporting future standards as they develop.
Comments — Visitors to your site can leave comments on individual entries, and through Trackback or Pingback can comment on their own site. You can enable or disable comments on a per-post basis.
Spam protection — Out of the box WordPress comes with very robust tools such as an integrated blacklist and open proxy checker to manage and eliminate comment spam on your blog, and there is also a rich array of plugins that can take this functionality a step further.
Full user registration — WordPress has a built-in user registration system that (if you choose) can allow people to register and maintain profiles and leave authenticated comments on your blog. You can optionally close comments for non-registered users. There are also plugins that hide posts from lower level users.
Password Protected Posts — You can give passwords to individual posts to hide them from the public. You can also have private posts which are viewable only by their author.
Easy installation and upgrades — Installing WordPress and upgrading from previous versions and other software is a piece of cake. Try it and you’ll wonder why all web software isn’t this easy.
Easy Importing — We currently have importers for Movable Type, Textpattern, Greymatter, Blogger, and b2. Work on importers for Nucleus and pMachine are under way.
XML-RPC interface — WordPress currently supports an extended version of the Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and finally the MovableType API. You can even use clients designed for other platforms like Zempt.
Workflow — You can have types of users that can only post drafts, not publish to the front page.
Typographical niceties — WordPress uses the Texturize engine to intelligently convert plain ASCII into typographically correct XHTML entities. This includes quotes, apostrophes, ellipses, em and en dashes, multiplication symbols, and ampersands. For information about the proper use of such entities see Peter Sheerin’s article The Trouble With Em ’n En.
Intelligent text formatting — If you’ve dealt with systems that convert new lines to line breaks before you know why they have a bad name: if you have any sort of HTML they butcher it by putting tags after every new line indiscriminately, breaking your formatting and validation. Our function for this intelligently avoids places where you already have breaks and block-level HTML tags, so you can leave it on without worrying about it breaking your code.
Multiple authors — WordPress’ highly advanced user system allows up to 10 levels of users, with different levels having different (and configurable) privileges with regard to publishing, editing, options, and other users.
Bookmarklets — Cross-browser bookmarklets make it easy to publish to your blog or add links to your blogroll with a minimum of effort.
Ping away — WordPress supports pinging Ping-O-Matic, which means maximum exposure for your blog to search engines.

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