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Several of you have mentioned either moving to your own self-hosted WordPress blogs or transferring your old Blogger blogs to a WordPress blog. Others of you have asked me how I make money online. I thought I would address both of these questions because they are related. One of the main ways I earn my [...]
Continue reading...How To Create Sub Menus in Fresh News Theme
19. December 2011
A reader asked me how to create those very convenient sub menu categories in the popular WooThemes Fresh News theme for WordPress. It’s actually very easy. Short version: The sub menus are automatically created when you attach posts to them. BUT before you can create sub menus, you must create main menu selections on the [...]
Continue reading...How to Customize HTML Tags for Your Clickable Button
20. October 2011
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In my previous post, How to Make a Clickable Button For Your Blog – the Simple Way, I showed you how to make a very, very basic clickable button with no bells and whistles. In this post, I’ll show you how to add some HTML tags to make the button do certain things. With tags, [...]
Continue reading...How to Make a Clickable Button For Your Blog – the Simple Way
11. October 2011
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Those “grab my button” graphics are very cute. They are an attractive way to share your link with other bloggers. Here’s a good example of a blog button: That button directs to my friend’s blog. If you click the button, your browser will load Carole’s Thoughtful Spot blog. Unfortunately, some grab buttons are a little [...]
Continue reading...How to Make a Sticky Post in Blogger
9. September 2011
In a previous post, I discussed the concept behind the sticky post and how to create one for a Word press blog: The Sticky Post: What, Why, and How To for WordPress. In this article, I’ll show you two ways to create a sticky post for a Blogger blog, using the Post Options feature and [...]
Continue reading...The Sticky Post: What, Why, and How To for WordPress
2. September 2011
A reader once asked me about the concept behind the “sticky post.” A sticky post is an article, forum thread, or blog post that remains at the top of the website even after it has been outdated by new and fresh content. Like a sticky note on top of your computer monitor or corkboard, a [...]
Continue reading...How To Add a Floating Facebook Twitter Google + Widget to Blogger
24. August 2011
Those floating “share” buttons are very attractive and handy– I think they are more conspicuous than the “below signature” share buttons. Here’s what mine looks like. Here’s a very easy method for adding your very own floating share button for Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon and Google +. Firstly, I’m assuming that you already know your way [...]
Continue reading...Blogger Tut: How To Show Sidebar Content Only on Homepage
19. July 2011
Usually, when you place information or a link or a graphic in your blog’s sidebar, the information appears sitewide; that is, it appears on the blog’s homepage AND on all the single pages and posts. This is a default feature of Blogger blogs. However, you can alter the HTML widget code to make the widget [...]
Continue reading...WordPress Tut: How To Show Sidebar Content Only on Homepage
9. July 2011
I came across a slight conundrum recently when an advertiser wanted to display an ad in my blog’s sidebar, but requested that the ad appear only on my homepage and not on single pages. Hm. I’m sure there’s some great, mystical method in the vast, geeky WordPress universe where you can insert text or an [...]
Continue reading...How To Take Good Photos For Your Blog
19. June 2011
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I remember the “old days” when Internet websites and blogs were *gasp* all text! This was before Flickr and Image Shack and Photobucket and Picasa took off. It took me a long time to adjust to all the graphics on blogs. It took a while for our computers to do, so, too. Remember waiting hours [...]
Continue reading...How To Make Your Own Forum Website
26. May 2011
When we think of getting web hosting service, we almost always think of a WordPress blog or plain old website. But you can do just about anything when you have web hosting service: store photos and documents as backups online (although some hosts frown on this so be sure to check your host’s policy); blogs [...]
Continue reading...Three Terrific WordPress Plugins for Simple Bloggers
6. May 2011
When I get a new computer or do a reformat, I have a little arsenal of favorite programs that I install almost immediately. And when I start up a new WordPress blog, I have a little arsenal of plugins that I install right away. Quite a number of bloggers (and would-be bloggers) have asked me [...]
Continue reading...WooThemes Easter Weekend Sale
22. April 2011
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WooThemes is having a terrific sale on their themes this weekend! I haven’t seen such a good sale. It’s a 5-for-1 sale– buy 1 theme for $70, get 4 more for free. I am a big fan of WooThemes, I use their themes on nearly all my blogs. I think they are of exceptional quality [...]
Continue reading...How To Tell If Your Blog Has Been Hacked
1. April 2011
It’s a heart-stopping moment, when you get an email from one of your blog’s readers notifying you of “weird popups” or “redirects to other websites” when they visit your blog. Or, worse still, Google has emailed you informing you that they have blacklisted your blog and removed it from their search engines, due to a [...]
Continue reading...How to Hide Your WordPress Plugins Directory
29. March 2011
It’s becoming more common so you may have heard of it: someone’s WordPress blog was hacked. Usually it is by a spammer, who inserts images or code to spread the spam. You can protect your WordPress blog in numerous ways. One of the easiest is to hide your plugins directory. Plugins are wonderful little tools, [...]
Continue reading...How to Add a “Tweet This” Button To Your Blogger Posts
5. March 2011
I’ve already showed bloggers how to add a Twitter “tweet this” Button to their WordPress blogs. You can also insert the same button to a Blogger blog, too. Before we begin, you should backup your Blogger template. In case anything goes awry, you’ll have a copy of your old template to restore. Also, go to [...]
Continue reading...How to Add a “Tweet This” Button To Your WordPress Posts
4. March 2011
Twitter is my social networking app of choice. I wasn’t initially too keen on it; the thought of being bombarded with thousands of chattering socialites 24/7 made my head ache. But now, it’s grown on me. Sure, there is a lot of unnecessary drivel on Twitter, but I am able to tune most of it [...]
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