Workshop: Adding Widgets to your Sidebar

In this screencast I’ll explain how you populate your sidebar with useful widgets. WordPress has plenty of them built-in and it’s really easy to add them to your site. Many websites offer badges for their services, and I’ll explain how you can embed them into your own site using the Text widget. Check out my [...]

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Workshop: Custom Menus

In this screencast I will introduce you to the WordPress Menu System. With it you can add pages, blog categories and even internal/external hyperlinks to your menu. You can even create pages that will never show up in your navigation – that’s great for landing pages and content you don’t want every visitor to see. [...]

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Workshop: Setting up your Front Page

If you want a static page instead of your blog posts on the front page, this screencast is for you. I’ll explain all you need to know to remove the blog from your home tab (as is the default). I’ll also explain how to do the opposite and will talk more about pages and the [...]

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Workshop: Writing Pages

In this screencast I’ll tell you everything you need to know about writing pages in WordPress. These are great for static information that does not change over time.Once you grasp this, you’ll be able to build brochure sites quickly and you’ll be able to update pages. This used to take forever with static HTML! Pages [...]

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Workshop: WordPress Workflow

Let’s have a look at the basics of working with WordPress. I’ll show you how to use the “back end” and the “front end” at the same time.  I’ll also demonstrate how a change you make to your website will become live on your front page. Check out my other workshops in this series here.

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Workshop: WordPress Anatomy and How to Log In

In this screencast I’ll talk you thorugh the basics of WordPress. I like to call it the “anatomy” – i.e. Front Page Header Sidebar Footer I’ll also show you how to login to your backend and how to work with two browser tabs open at the same time. Enjoy! Check out my other workshops in [...]

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Workshop: How to Upgrade WordPress

In this screencast I’ll show you how easy it is to upgrade the WordPress Core, Themes and several Plugins at once. Note that this may not work on some hosts. If you’re hosting with me you have nothing to fear of course Check out my other workshops in this series here.

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How to style Modularity Lite 1.3 by GraphPaperPress

Modularity Lite returns with version 1.3, this time boasting WordPress Menus and a dynamic slideshow option to keep us excited. You can even change colours and your background image. Making it your own was never easier. Here are my notes from when I created minor amendmends for Simon’s website SoundCredit.tv. My original article on how [...]

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Disk Space Pie Chart Plugin

I’ve written a Plugin that shows your free and used server space as a funky Pie Chart in your backend. It also shows a percentage bar in your WordPress dahsboard. Following the success of my server space script for one of my clients, I thought it would be great to use it under WordPress. This [...]

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Upgrading WordPress… FAILED!

We’ve all been there many times: a new WordPress Version comes out, you think you’re upgraded in under a minute, and then this message comes up to tell you that you’re not: WordPress Upgrade Failed! Bugger… Let me talk you through the many many possibilities for this and what you can do to make this [...]

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Why does WordPress ask for your FTP Details

So you’re upgrading a Plugin, a Theme or the WordPress Core. Thanks to the built-in upgrade function it’s a piece of cake for most of us. But have you noticed that on some installations WordPress will ask for your FTP credentials, while on others it doesn’t? I certainly have, and I wondered how this could [...]

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Adios IntenseDebate!

For those of you following comments on my sites via IntenseDebate, I’m sorry to say that I’ve decided not to use the system anymore. I used it here on WP Guru and over at versluis.com to provide an easier commenting experience for my readers and more comfortable back end features for myself. Turns out it [...]

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How to style AutoFocus by Allan Cole

One of my all time favourite themes is AutoFocus by Allan Cole – it’s a superb portfolio theme that lets your pictures to the talking. Great for sites that show off images. I wanted to use it over at Cloud-TV but thought that a different colour scheme would better suit my pictures – so I [...]

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How to style Misty Look

The other day Richard moved his blog from WordPress.com over to The Guru Network – welcome Richard He was using Sadish Bala’s beautiful Misty Look Theme and wanted to stick with it. However, the self-hosted version doesn’t quite look like what he had on WordPress.com, so here are some code tweaks to adjust it. Please [...]

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