WordPress is my life and my passion – I wouldn’t know what to do without it. I often recommend it, I often install it and I teach people about it.
One of the question I often get asked by beginners is “what’s the difference between WordPress.com and this self hosted thing”? Let me explain.
Indeed they’re not, they look waaaaay to big and ugly. Help is at hand by adding this code to your Cutsom CSS File in Thesis: .custom .format_text input, #commentform input, #commentform textarea { width:auto; } Instant relief.
Yes, that’s an annoying one – and it has less to do with your Theme’s CSS and more to do with teh Flash Player. Easy remidy is at hand, even though it means that you need to add code to each video. Here’s how you do it: Your videos will be embedded with both <OBJECT> … Read more
WordPress has many pros for content creators like ourselves, but every once in a while there’s a big con that can get in the way of WordPress Fun. One of them is really annoying: when your website becomes regularly unavailable due to a server crash! Even though a reboot brings things back to normal for … Read more
YouTube allows you to easily share videos on many popular blogging platforms, such as Blogger and WordPress. With the latter, you can either link your WordPress.com account, or your self hosted blog. I tried this several times, only to find an unexplained error message on YouTube. Finally, thanks to The Social Media Guide, I know … Read more
If a new stable version of WordPress is available, you’ll be prompted to upgrade at the top of the dashboard. Upgrading not only introduces some new (and usually cool) features to your installation, but it also protects you from hackers as security holes are being fixed. I reccomend you upgrade as soon as a new … Read more
Here are some sites to check out for FREE WordPress Themes: http://www.themescore.com/ http://www.amazingwordpressthemes.com http://www.wordpress.org/extend/themes I’ll amend this list if and when I discover more – drop me a line of a resource you can think of.
Simple! Follow these steps: check out this fabulous free Favicon Generator: http://www.favicon.cc/ find or draw a picture you like download the file FAVICON.ICO and copy it into your root directory celebrate your new Favicon That’s it!
