The text widget is one of the worst-named and most overlooked features in WordPress. It’s not just for text, but for images and HTML code or JavaScript. (Advanced text widgets even let you include PHP.) Easily add e-mail sign-up forms, linked images, and anything else to your WordPress sidebar just by pasting the code into… Continue Reading Video Tutorial: Adding a (Dynamic) Widget
Adding a Photo Gallery to a WordPress Post or Page
I have a client who’s on a world tour, and he wanted some help with uploading photo galleries to his blog, which is using the Coraline theme. Inserting a gallery isn’t quite as intuitive as inserting a photo, so I decided to create some instructions for him. Since I thought they might be useful to… Continue Reading Adding a Photo Gallery to a WordPress Post or Page
There’s a Plugin for That Presentation
This is a presentation I gave to the Breakfast Blogging Club on November 9, 2010. We covered 19 WordPress plugins in 40 minutes. The criteria I used to choose them was “Which of the options available to perform this task will be easiest to use for those who are primarily bloggers and not WordPress experts?”… Continue Reading There’s a Plugin for That Presentation
Review: Beginning WordPress 3 by Stephanie Leary
Beginning WordPress 3 By Stephanie Leary ISBN-13: 978-1-4302-2895-0 ISBN-10: 1-4302-2895-4 432 pp. Published Jun 2010 Print Book Price: $39.99 eBook Price: $27.99 Amazon Price $28.79 (affiliate link) The title of this book is deceptive, enough so that I handed it to a friend who was making the move from WordPress.com to self-hosted WordPress because I… Continue Reading Review: Beginning WordPress 3 by Stephanie Leary
Review: Create Your Own Blog by Tris Hussey
I highly recommend this book, and believe it will be almost as valuable a year from now as it is today, because most of the guidance it provides isn’t about the state of the technology. Continue Reading Review: Create Your Own Blog by Tris Hussey
