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 embed [...]

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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 in red [...]

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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, photos,  [...]

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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 publish [...]

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Migrating From Blogger To WordPress: Keeping Search Results

by Jerome

September 25 th

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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 have found [...]

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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 [...]

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