There are a hundred reasons why you might want to start a blog. You could be a business that needs to stay engaged with its customer base, you might be someone interested in a certain topic and so you want to write about it or report on it. You might be in need of creating …
Blogging scripts, such as WordPress, revolutionized the internet as they allowed non-technical people to create websites easily. WordPress is famous for its five-minute installation process. All you have to do is create your database, configure the wp-config.php file, upload the files and run the installation script. Those that struggled with installing WordPress manually could install WordPress …
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One of the biggest problems with fonts is that if the person visiting your site doesn’t have them installed on their local machine, they won’t see them. This can cause issues because you never know what font it might get replaced with and what it could look like for each visitor. In this tutorial we will …
An options page is essential to any plugin or theme that requires the end user to enter or modify custom information. Even if you just want to display some instructions, an options page is still a good idea to incorporate into your software. Luckily, the process is not difficult for beginner developers with prior experience in HTML …
This is an intermediate level tutorial for aspiring theme developers. Although I will not go into the finer points of theme developments, I will demonstrate how to create a custom page template that you can add to your current theme. The purpose of the tutorial is to create a customized home page that doesn’t necessarily …
Galleries are a great way of highlighting a series of images such as a recent holiday with your family, a business trip or a review of a product or service. There are hundreds of WordPress plugins available that allow you to add a gallery to your website, however a plugin is not necessary as WordPress …
Today I will be showing you how you create a template to display all links from your blogroll (or link manager as WordPress now calls it). I will be using the current default WordPress theme Twenty Eleven in my example though the steps that I will be showing you can be applied to any theme. What is …
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The difference between a competent blogger and a great blogger can sometimes be very small. Despite the importance of grammar and the benefits of understanding blogging platforms such as WordPress, I believe the main thing that sets top bloggers apart from the rest is their ability to connect with an audience. Being able to connect with …
In this intermediate level WordPress tutorial, I will cover how you can host an absolutely free WordPress blog that you can customize as you see fit. The only alternative solution for a free WordPress blog has to do with signing up with WordPress.com and hosting your blog with them, but they do not offer you the freedom …
One of the best features of running a WordPress blog is the option to add contributing editors or sub-users. This feature is particularly useful when running a professional website and outsourced writers have been hired to produce content. You can provide contributing users with proper access to create new content as well as control their …
