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Web Site Upgrades and Services
Although all of the sites that we build are made to be managed by our clients and you can do all of this stuff below by yourself, we understand that sometimes you would just rather have us do it for you. No problem…. here are some additional services that we offer. Please call us at (903) 771-2030 to talk about or order any of... Read More
Making Word Press More Secure
UPDATED: There is a new hacking effort taking place using bots to access Word Press sites. Read more about it here. Follow the below instructions and you’ll be fine… There are several ways to make your Word Press site more secure and this is always a good idea. Proper security can be a pain in the tush but also can save... Read More
How to Use Next Gen Gallery
I install the plugin Next Gen Gallery on most of my sites. It’s a great photo gallery plugin and simple to use. Here’s the basics… This photo gallery uses a two step process. 1. Upload your photos to the gallery. 2. Insert the Gallery into whichever post of page you want it to how up in. Uploading Photos: Take some pictures... Read More
How to insert an email address
1. Create the email address. 2. Go to your post or page and type the words you want linked to the email address (like: email us HERE.) 3. Highlight the words and click on the “Insert hyperlink” icon. 4. Insert the email address like this: mailto:john@aol.com 5. Click insert and save your post or page. Read More →
How to insert a PDF document into your site
This is a question we get a lot and is very straighforward. Here’s how it’s done. 1. Save your document to your desktop. 2. Go into the post or page you want it in 3. Click on the “add an image” icon next to Upload/Insert. 4. Upload the pdf document. 5. Scroll down to where it says “file url”... Read More
Gravity Forms
We always install cForms Contact Form Plugin to our sites because it’s free and works reasonably well. However, if you really need something more robust we have recently found out about Gravity Forms, which is a commercial plugin for Word Press. This plugin is completely rockin and if you use contact forms a lot it is well worth... Read More
CForms won’t work!
“I have the plugin set up correctly and it still won’t work! Help!” This happens a lot and here is the most likely fix. Log into your dashboard and go to cForms and go to the “Form Settings” area. There is a little box at the top that is checked and says “Ajax Enabled.” Uncheck the box and... Read More
Dashboard Options Are Gone!
When you update to the latest version of WordPress you may have some issues in your posts and pages. The new dashboard has some cool new features but they can look a little bit confusing… Here’s the biggest problem that we’re running into… “I’ve upgraded to the latest version of Word Press and now when... Read More
Using the Word Press Featured Image
If you have one of our sites that is built after March 2011 then we have more than likely incorporated Post Thumbnails into your theme. This feature will allow you to choose pictures from your media library and designate them as “featured images” to be used throughout the site. These featured images will automatically be cropped... Read More
Putting in Content
For the most part this is pretty self explanatory however if you need a good run through on knowing what the different icons are and what they do then Simple WP Guide has an old yet excellent tutorial on this here: http://www.simplewpguide.com/working-with-content/formatting-text-content-in-wp/ Read More →
