Tag Archives: Tutorials
Display Author Picture Without A Plugin
by Jerome
April 25 th
There are a few plugins out there that help you to add the author photo within a post. The one I like to use for large blogs for easy management is the User Photo plugin. For blogs with just a few nominated authors there is no point to use a plugin- just simply follow this [...]
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How To Customise BuddyPress Default Messages
by Jerome
March 4 th
Thanks go to the BuddyPress development team for making it really easy to amend any text labels and messages through your BuddyPress install. For example, if you would like to change the word “Groups” to “Topics” through the site, or you would like to change the entire website into a foreign language- simply follow the [...]
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How To Insert Videos With One URL In WordPress 2.9
by Jerome
January 7 th
In WordPress 2.9 there is no more need to embed the full source code of your videos into your post thanks to the support of oEmbed. Now you just simply need to drop the video URL in your WordPress blog post. It’s that simple! As an example we are going to show you how to [...]
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Be More Productive With The ‘Press This’ WordPress Tool
by Jerome
December 13 th
Press This is a free tool to help you easily grab a section of a web page you want to quote and add it to your blog post. You can even import images and videos. How To Install Press This. Simply go under your Tools section, select Tools and drag the “Press This” link marked [...]
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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 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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