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Adding New Plugins to Your Site
As your site evolves you may want to add new plugins to it thereby increases the functionality. This is a simple and painless process. First, be sure and check out the ratings of the plugins you are considering adding. If you add a plugin that is not well supported you take your chances on whether that plugin will continue to work well... Read More
Creating Unique Page Sidebars
If you would like to create unique sidebars for some or all of your pages luckily there is an easy way to do it. Here’s how you make that happen: 1. Go to “Plugins” then go to “Add New.” 2. Search the available plugins for “Per Page Sidebars.” 3. Install and activate the plugin. 4. Go to... Read More
How to Add a Facebook Fan Page
Now that we’ve created a great website for you it may be time to move on and get on the Facebook bandwagon! I get a lot of requests on how to get your business or organization on facebook and so here’s a quick step by step tutorial on how to do it. First of all you need to realize the difference between a Facebook profile and... Read More
Weird Spacing When I Hit Enter…
Here’s a question I get a lot from folks who are new at entering info into their content management systems. “When I am editing the page and I hit the ‘enter ‘ key I get large spaces and can’t get things lined up correctly.” Luckily this is an easy fix. On the web the “enter key” gives us... Read More
Creating Drop Down Menus
To create drop down menus on your site navigation you will use the sub page feature of Word Press. To do so simply go to the page you want in the drop down menu and look on the right hand side under “Page Attributes.” Look for the drop down menu at the top and choose the page that you want as the “Parent Page,” or... Read More
Ordering Pages in Your Navigation
To customize the order of how the pages appear in your navigation bar simply do the following: Go to each page and look for the section on the right that says “Page Attributes.” Look underneath it for the subsection that says “Order.” Place a number in there for each page. Lower numbers will show first on the navigation... Read More
How to Edit Your Post Order
In Word Press posts are time and date stamped and are ordered most commonly by latest date first and then older posts following. To reorder these posts for any reason you need to simply change the published date. Here’s how we do that… 1. Log into your WordPress account and go to your dashboard. 2. Click on “Posts”... Read More
WordPress 3.0 Menu Addition
With the release of Word Press 3.0 you know have the option for custom menus added to the software. This will allow you to create custom menus of pages, categories or any other links you want and put them in your sidebar widget area. Here’s a brief tutorial on how you access and use this new feature. 1. Go to “Appearance”... Read More
Changing Your Passwords
To change your site admin password simply log in and go to “Users..” Select the user that you want to modify and click on the name. Scroll to the bottom and enter your new password twice and hit “update.” Read More →
Backing Up Your Content
The easiest way to back your content up from your site is to download the XML file. You should do this anytime you have made major changes and probably once a month anyway at the least. To do so, login to your site, go to “Tools” and then to “Export.” Download the file and save it in a safe place. If you ever... Read More
