Articles for 'Tutorials'
How To Create A Facebook Fans Page For Your Blog
by Jerome
November 11 th
To keep in touch with your readers effectively every blogger should have a Twitter account and a Facebook fans page to promote your latest blog posts. A few days ago I decided to create a Facebook page for PimpMyWordPress.com. It’s an easy way for Facebook users to keep in touch with your latest blog news, videos, [...]
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How To Setup Your Gravatar In 5 Easy Steps
by Jerome
November 1 st
I still have clients asking me “How can I add my photo profile when I leave a comment?“. It only takes 5 minutes and is done in 5 easy steps. No more excuses now with this tutorial! Let’s all have our lovely photo and stop having those ugly blue gravatar logos and mystery men next [...]
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A Quick Way To Post HD Video On Your Blog With VideoPress
by Jerome
October 14 th
For anyone who is looking for an easy option to publish high definition video on your WordPress blog without depending on others like self hosted video services (like YouTube) look at VideoPress. Owned by Automattic it offers an awesome video service. Unfortunately it is not a free but for only $60 a year they will [...]
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How To Create A Static Page For Your Homepage
by Jerome
October 5 th
In this quick tutorial I will demonstrate how you can easily create a static page for your homepage and a separate page for your blog on your WordPress website in just few clicks. Go to your dashboard –> Pages –> Add new –> Create 2 new pages: one called “Home” and one called “Blog” and [...]
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How To Switch Off The Flash Uploader
by Jerome
September 9 th
To upload any media files WordPress gives you two options to choose from: the Flash uploader or using your browser uploader. The Flash uploader set by default has been a source of many problems with various clients (myself included). It is mainly caused by older versions of Flash or running old versions of WordPress. I [...]
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How To Highlight Search Terms With jQuery
by Jerome
August 25 th
Make a better search experience for the user by highlighting any search terms with jQuery. Simply open your functions.php file and copy and paste the code below: function hls_set_query() { $query = attribute_escape(get_search_query()); if(strlen($query) > 0){ echo ‘ <script type="text/javascript"><!–mce:0–></script> ‘; } } function hls_init_jquery() { wp_enqueue_script(’jquery’); } add_action(’init’, ‘hls_init_jquery’); add_action(’wp_print_scripts’, ‘hls_set_query’); [...]
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How To Display Your Total Number Of Followers
by Jerome
June 22 nd
If you are starting to be a rock star blogger and have 100 and 100′s of followers and subscribers, why not show to the world how many followers you have from your feed subscriber and Twitter followers. Of course you could use Feedburner or TwitterCounter script but why not create your own with just few [...]
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How To Share A Blog Post Without A Plugin
by Jerome
June 7 th
If you don’t want to use any sharing or bookmark plugins to help you share your latest blog post, I have come up with a list of the most popular sharing website links that you can drop at the bottom of your post. The examples are simple text links but of course you can add [...]
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