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Our articles include how-tos, educational items and observations on the web and WordPress world, for website owners and developers.
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Adding a Photo Gallery in WordPress
for WordPress Version 3.5 or later. A gallery is a set of images displayed in a post or page as thumbnails, which you can click on to display a larger image. Including a gallery is a very simple process in WordPress and WordPress 3.5 brings a lot of control and versatility. Here’s my sample gallery Here’s…
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Updating a WordPress Photo Gallery
Here’s how to add new photos to a Page or Post which displays an existing Gallery within WordPress. 1. Upload the new images If your post or page already contains a gallery, you’ll see an image like this within the WordPress editing box:- To add a new photo, you can just click on the WordPress…
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Easily Add Video to a WordPress Post or Page
for WordPress Version 3.1 or later. The easiest way to add video to a WordPress post or page is to do it via YouTube. YouTube takes care of hosting the video files and managing file formats – whatever format your video is in, YouTube will convert it so that it can be viewed over the…
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Controlling Your WordPress Website Front Page
Here’s a question from one of my WordPress clients:- How do I control which is the front page of my website? WordPress basically has two options for that front (or home) page:- it can be a specific page that you select it can be the front page of your blog, containing the most recent posts (you can choose…
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How to Get Traffic Today
There are really only two approaches today to getting traffic to your website
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How to Easily Add Video to a WordPress Post or Page
The easiest way to add video to a WordPress post or page is to do it via YouTube. YouTube takes care of hosting the video files and managing file formats – whatever format your video is in, YouTube will convert it so that it can be viewed over the internet without concern about different video…
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Help for Including Images in WordPress
Upload an image by clicking on the WordPress Upload/Insert icon just above the text entry box. Then browse to the location of the file(s) on your computer and upload. In the Add Media box: Give your image a meaningful title. Remove the Link URL (by clicking on None) unless you want to be able to click…
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Help for Adding or Editing a Blog Post
Log in to WordPress and click on Posts. To write a new post, click on Add New…, to edit an existing one, click on its title in the list. Using the WordPress editor is quite similar to writing an email and most of the buttons will seem quite familiar. If you need a little extra help,…
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Introduction to WordPress Basics
Nice, clear help pages for people who are using WordPress to add and edit blog posts or website content.
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Website Basics
You’ve decided you want a website – what do you need to make it happen?