Category: Wordpress
How to customize your WordPress 404 page
Ever searched for something on a blog and didn’t find it? It’s awful to see that 404 message and not have anywhere to go from there. Have you tested your blog’s 404 page? Try testing it out by trying to go to yourblog.com/testpage or some other page you know isn’t there. If you only see [...]
How to install a theme
If you’ve never installed a theme for WordPress, don’t worry. It’s pretty straightforward and easy. The hardest part is finding a theme you want to use. Once you find it, download the theme to your computer. Unzip the files and upload them to the themes directory of your WordPress blog. In the WordPress dashboard click [...]
Add This – How to add social bookmarking options to your post
Did you ever see a widget within a post that had a + and said bookmark this, add this or share this? And when you rolled over it a bunch of different social bookmarking sites were listed? You probably have. If you’ve seen the one I’m referring to it’s a free WordPress widget called Add [...]
How to show someone’s last post (and some love) on your blog
Did you ever see links in the comments of a blog? Ever wonder how to get them to appear there? If you want to show the last post of people leaving a comment on your blog, use the plugin Comment Luv. The plugin tries to visit the feed of your commenter’s blog and grab the [...]
How to let your readers subscribe to comments of a post
Have you ever seen a post on a blog that has a little checkbox at the end that said subscribe to comments? For anyone who isn’t sure what that means, I’ll tell you. If you check that box you’ll get an email notifying you when new comments have been made on that post. It’s a [...]
How to find out how many words are in your post
Have you ever wanted or needed to know how many words you’re written in a post on your blog? It’s easy to check at any time if you use the WordPress plugin Leprakhaun’s Word Count. To use it, just unzip and upload it into your plugins directory. Then activate the plugin in your WordPress dashboard. [...]
How to keep up with your WordPress plugins
Have you ever gone into the plugins section of your WordPress dashboard only to see that several of your WordPress plugins have been updated? They don’t appear in the dashboard tab to see when you first log in, which I think would be really helpful. So, in order to keep up with my plugins I [...]
How to clean up your blog archives
A couple of weeks ago I came across a plugin that organizes your archives on a page of their own. This easy to use plugin is called SRG Clean Archives and can be downloaded for free. The plugin will lists the years, months and days that you’ve posted in. The listings include the post permalink [...]
How to manage the ads on your blog
Do you have sell advertising on your blog? Wouldn’t you like an easy and efficient way to manage the ads? If you would, then you need to get OIO Publisher. OIO Publisher is a WordPress plugin designed for managing blog monetization and sales. If you’re like me you might have kept track of things in [...]
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 [...]
