17 Jan
Posted by lucy as blog page, comments, common WordPress problems, copy paste, installing themes, line break, screen options, static homepage, widgets, Wordpress, WordPress Tutorials - Basic
I teach people on a daily basis how to use WordPress, from the ground up. A few face-smackingly simple issues come up time and again. 1) Pasting from Word will make your posts look funky Anytime you copy and paste directly into the WordPress editor, from Microsoft Word, another website, or any other outside source, [...]
10 Jan
Posted by lucy as password protected, plugins, private pages, shortcodes, wordpress plugins, WordPress Tutorials - Intermediate
I had a client recently who needed to create private, password-protected sections on her WordPress site. She wanted each of her clients to have a private page with information related to what they were working on together. Easy! Password-protection is an in-built feature of WordPress, in case you didn’t know. When creating a page, you [...]
21 Nov
Posted by lucy as Twitter, widget, wordpress plugins, WordPress Tutorials - Basic
Need a Twitter plugin that does a little more than simply display your own Tweets in the sidebar? Tweet Blender does a ton of stuff: Tweet Blender is tag-aware and has support for multiple authors, lists, hashtags, and keywords all blended together. The plugin can show tweets from just one user or a list of [...]
06 Oct
Posted by lucy as columns, grid layout, plugins, tiny mce advanced, Wordpress, WordPress Tutorials - Intermediate, wp easy columns, wp post columns
WordPress makes most things easy but, sometimes the in-built editor just won’t comply, especially if you’re trying to do something like align pictures next to each other in the same row, perhaps place 2 videos next to each other, or various other things that seem like they should be simple, but are maddening to attempt. [...]
04 Oct
Posted by lucy as adsense, advertising, affiliates, Blogging Basics, monetization, products
Ah, I thought that might get your attention….. Yes, what blogger does NOT want to make money from their hard work? Oh what’s that? You’re independently wealthy and just doing this for kicks n’ giggles? That’s nice for you. Now go sit in the corner with my other imaginary friends. But for those of you [...]