February 23, 2012

Proof that Spongebob Squarepants is a Rapist? (yes, this is WordPress related)

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While Drinking My Morning Coffee… This morning I was going through my email and had a few dozen new Twitter followers (thanks to all of you who follow by the way) and clicked through to their Twitter profile pages. I always like to do this to see if who’s following me seems legit or if [...]

How to Add and Delete Contact Info Fields for Your Users

How I changed the contact info area of my user profile page

I want to share a code snippet I recently learned about from following the action (online) at WordCamp Montreal. This is a function written by Stephanie Leary and was presented in her slideshow available here. This function allows you to add/remove/edit the available fields in the Contact Info area of a WordPress user’s Profile page. [...]

How to Customize and Remove Items in Your WordPress Dashboard and Post Edit Screens

What are the screen options in the WordPress Dashboard area?

If you’ve read my previous post and have been waiting for the step-by-step tutorial, here it is. If you haven’t read my previous post, I suggest you give it a quick scan to learn the real world use case that prompted me to write this tutorial. I hope I didn’t keep you waiting too long [...]

How to Hide Pages in Your WordPress Navigation Menu

I made a tutorial over at AdamWWarner.com and included a video. Unfortunately, in the video I directed people here to watch it….whoops. It’s over here folks! Sorry about that…

How to Avoid Confusing Your New WordPress Authors and Only Give Them What They Need.

How to Customize Your WordPress Dashboard and Post Edit Sreens

I run the website for my neighborhood association. No wait. Let me rephrase that…I am the guy who developed a website to facilitate the needs of my neighborhood association. It was never my intention to write posts about the neighborhood happenings or to document the minutes from the association’s monthly meetings. My position (as I [...]

What is the best WordPress Plugin for Making a Personal Connection with Your Visitors?

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Not long ago I moved this site to a new domain and in the process axed a lot of custom code and plugins I had been using for almost three years. I was frustrated with the bloat of the site and wanted to start fresh. During that process I deleted a plugin that I had [...]

Why Your Visual Editor Width is Different in WordPress 3.0

Why is my WordPress Visual Editor Width Different?

One of the first things I noticed after upgrading to WordPress 3.0 was that my visual editor was a bit different. What I mean is that as I typed my posts, the text wasn’t filling the entire width of the visual editor like it always had before. At first I thought it was a plugin [...]

How to Change Your WordPress Theme Without Losing Your Widgets (or your composure)

If you’re a regular reader of WPM, you may have noticed that I’ve changed the look and feel of the site recently. While changing themes, I ran into a Widgets issue that I had forgotten about. Sometimes when changing themes, the new theme you’ve chosen won’t display your Widgets properly. This is kind of a [...]

The Real Deal On How To Create Your Own Blogging Success Story

Typical Sales Page

If there’s one thing I hate, it’s being duped. Tricked into believing you’ve finally found the answer to online riches. You’ve seen all the eBooks, you’ve purchased all the “special reports”, you may have even paid big money for someone to “optimize and market” your blog. If this describes you, then read on, because I [...]

Three Blogging Tips

Wordpress Blogging Tips

By Peter Nisbet This article is not intended to provide you with a host of blogging tips, but simply to guide those of you who have either just started or have been blogging for a while but have some bad habits. Bad blogging habits are easy to get into, and one of the worst is [...]