Category: How to
How to add your Home page to your sidebar
Unfortunately, the pages widget does not permit the home page of a blog to be included in it’s output. A poor decision in my opinion. Not all people actually realize to click on the header to get back to the home page. Others don’t know how to alter their code to make the header a [...]
How to close comments on your blog
I didn’t want to leave comments open on my WordPress blog indefinitely, nor did I want to turn them off. I figured someone must have come up with a way to have comments turn off after a certain period of time so I went surfing on the internet. I found what I was looking for [...]
How to add footers to your rss feed
You’re probably familiar with rss feeds if you’re a blogger or read blogs. On the off chance you’re not familiar, rss stands for really simple syndication and it’s a way of getting your new content out to readers that want to see it. A footer, as many people know, goes at the bottom of your [...]
How to show similar posts in WordPress
If you use WordPress and want to add the ability to view similar posts at the end of a post then this plugin is for you. I have recently done this on this blog, as you might have noticed if you’re a regular reader. Implementing it isn’t too bad but will require a little fidgeting [...]
How to place a contact form in WordPress
Want to include a contact form on your blog? With CForms, it’s easy. I have it installed on all of my blogs. Here’s how you do it. Go to http://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin and download the plugin. Extract the plugin and upload it to the plugins directory of your blog. If you upload the file zipped into cpanel [...]
How to adjust what appears in the content of your rss feed
There are two ways to have your content appear in your rss feed, as a full post or as a summary post asking the reader to click to read more. There are benefits to both ways. A full post lets the readers who have subscribed to your feed read them at their convenience without the [...]
How to embed a video in a WordPress post
The first several times I tried to embed a youtube video inside a WordPress post I had problems. My themes would go crazy and get knocked out of alignment, and some things disappeared from my blog completely. That’s when I did a little research and found the WPVideo plugin. To install it just download it [...]
How to write your first post in WordPress
In December I set up a blog for my Mom. I’m sure she isn’t the only one out there who’s never used WordPress and was unsure of how to write so I decided to write this post. This post provides simple instructions on the basics of writing a post. The field you see that aren’t [...]
How to turn off the WordPress visual editor
Have you ever wondered how to turn off the visual editor in WordPress so you could just work directly with the code? If so then this post is for you. Log in to your WordPress dashboard. Click on the Users link up at the top. If you’re the only one writing on your blog, click [...]
How to change the author name in WordPress
This article is to teach you how to change the author name within WordPress, so that everything you write doesn’t list Admin as the author. I’ve come across a good number of blogs out there that are listed as written by Admin. If you’re new to WordPress or just never realized you could make this [...]
