Articles for 'Tutorials'
Make Your Blog Work For You Not Against You
by Jerome
December 1 st
These are words from the WordPress Queen Lorelle VanFossen. Spoken at the WordCamp Netherland during her presentation. A highly amusing presentation! This 30 minute video will teach you some tips on how to write good content and how to be productive and make your blog work for you- by sharing great software and firefox addons [...]
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Awesome Plugins To Help You Create An Hyperlocal Website With BuddyPress
by Jerome
November 23 rd
A few days ago at the WordCamp event in New York Ted Mann from InJersey.com shared some awesome plugins tips to help you create a Hyperlocal website with BuddyPress. I have listed below the plugins that he suggested, plus some extra ones that I have found quite useful. What is a Hyperlocal website? It is [...]
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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 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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