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How to Check Your WordPress Theme for Malicious Codes and Links
Just recently, two pals of mine had their blogs hacked. Apparently, the hackers gained access through the website themes. The themes were either coded poorly or contained loopholes though which hackers could gain access. It’s a very vulnerable feeling to have your blog hacked. All your precious posts and comments can be wiped out in [...]
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...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A sticky post is an article, forum thread, or blog post that remains at the top of the website even after it has been outdated by new and fresh content.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...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...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 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 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 [...]
Continue reading...How to Add Google Friend Connect to Your WordPress Blog
26. February 2011
As much as many bloggers prefer the versatile WordPress as their blogging platform of choice, Google’s Blogger remains a very popular (and adequate) blogging platform, too. Unfortunately, Blogger hasn’t been exactly friendly toward other blogging platforms (WordPress users are routinely restricted from leaving comments with their WP url unless the blog’s owner “opts in” to [...]
Continue reading...How to Change the Default WordPress HTML Editor Font
4. February 2011
The font in the WordPress HTML editor section is, well, dull. Courier and Arial are, in my opinion, lifeless and sometimes difficult to read. You can change the default font of the HTML editor quite easily. If you are unfamiliar with the WordPress HTML editor font, here it is: Changing the font is as easy [...]
Continue reading...Eight Terrific WordPress Plugins
6. January 2011
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Having tinkered with various blogging platforms, such as Blogger, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and others, I really like WordPress. The others certainly have their advantages, but I love WordPress because of plugins. Plugins have really made WordPress a terrific software suite. Not only is WordPress suitable for blogging, it is a superb content management software suite. [...]
Continue reading...How to Customize the Fresh News Woo Themes Header
20. April 2010
I love WooThemes – Premium WordPress Templates. My favorite theme of all is Fresh News by WooThemes. I use the theme for several of my blogs, and it looks spectacular on them all. This is my Woo Themes theme on one of my other blogs, FreakyFrugalite.com. It’s easy to customize the Fresh News header, called [...]
Continue reading...How to Install a New WordPress Theme
24. January 2010
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If there is anything that stands out about a WordPress blog, it is the superior themes available to you. There are scads and scads of free and premium WordPress themes. I use a mixture of themes, both free and premium. Do not feel as though you need to spend a dime to get a good-looking [...]
Continue reading...How To Install WordPress with Fantastico
13. January 2010
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This is Part 5 in the series, How Do I get a Blog? You’ve bought a domain name, a web host, you’ve inspected the cPanel, and you’ve issued your name servers for your domain. Now you’ve hit the big time– time to install THE BLOG! By far, the most popular blogging authoring tool is WordPress. [...]
Continue reading...What is a cPanel?
10. January 2010
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This is Part 3 in the How Do I Get a Blog? series. Once you have acquired and purchased your domain name, and acquired and purchased your web hosting service, you can access your web hosting account and files from something called your cPanel. According to my handy dandy Glossary of Blogging Terms, a cPanel [...]
Continue reading...How to Upgrade Your WordPress Blog
8. January 2010
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Way back in the olden days before WordPress 2.7, we used to have to manually upgrade WordPress. It was a nightmare (at least to me). Thank God I never wiped out my blogdata or anything (I heard horror stories), but it was still a laborious and sometimes long process. Then a terrific plugin, WordPress Automatic [...]
Continue reading...WordPress.com and WordPress.org
4. January 2010
WordPress is a rather generic name. It can stand for the blog authoring tool (blogging software) or it can stand for the website that offers free hosting with a “wordpress.com” suffix attached to the domain name you choose. Here’s a detailed breakdown of the difference between them: WordPress.com… …is the website where you can start [...]
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I'm Rebecca Mecomber. I have been a professional blogger and writer since 2006. I currently maintain more than a dozen blogs of various niches, including technology and computers, travel, politics, home renovation, parenting and gardening. You can check out my blogs on my About Page. Thanks for reading TheOlderGeek.com!
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