May 18, 2012

How to Add an Amazon Store to your WordPress Website

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Adding an Amazon store to your WordPress site is made easy by Amazon’s aStore builder, but what if you want more features than aStore can provide? There is a better way to create a full featured Amazon Associate store with very powerful customization and configuration options. I’ve written about this amazon store script before and [...]

Ode to WordPress – A Personal Retrospective

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It’s that time of year when I get a little nostalgic and reflect on life a bit. The next article will be another tutorial I promise, but today I’d like to share some information on how I ended up choosing WordPress and what it means to me personally.

Adding a Widgetized Area to Genesis Corporate Theme

Corporate - Genesis WordPress Theme Framework by StudioPress

I’m a huge fan of several WordPress theme framework providers like Genesis, Thematic, Hybrid, and others. Each framework builds in some very unique features that can be easily used to position content the way one would like, but often times I find myself needing to make a few tweaks to the child theme files or [...]

And the WordPress Multisite Plugins Go To…

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Thank you to all who participated in my Free WordPress Multisite Plugin giveaway. I’m also thankful that @andrea_r and @wpmuguru allowed me to make it happen:) The Winners Aggregating Global Content paul Angie Meeker Chris Carrier Professional Domain Mapping Event Espresso Affiliatetheme Winners will be contacted via their email or Twitter accounts shortly. I’m also [...]

Giveaway of Free WordPress Multisite Plugins

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If you’re a regular WordPress user, it’s likely you’re aware of the Multisite capabilities that can be activated. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, in a nutshell, having a Multisite installation allows you to manage an entire network of WordPress powered sites, all from one Admin area. Stay tuned for more information [...]

WordPress Website Checklist

How to Build a Website with WordPress

Are you a non-technical small business owner thinking of building your own website? Maybe an experienced do-it-yourself-er who wants to make sure they know what’s involved in creating a website and all the different things to consider before you dive in head first? Would a checklist help? I often meet people who know that building [...]

Helping a New User to Understand WordPress

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As a WordPress tutorial writer I try my best to look at the software from a new user’s perspective. Sometimes it’s difficult to remember all the little details I’ve learned about using the platform through the years and that I now take for granted as “second nature knowledge”. I received a series of questions the [...]

How the WordPress Trash Feature Saved the Day

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In my last WordPress tutorial I explained Page Attributes and how to use them. That tutorial was prompted by a client who’s page navigation was horked. They had set several parent and child pages incorrectly and I was able to see that and get them fixed quickly. However, the navigation menu was still messed up. [...]

WordPress Page Attributes and How to Use Them

WordPress Page Attributes

Page Attributes in WordPress In all my years working with WordPress I’ve seldom uttered that phrase above but the other day I had to explain how to set them for WordPress, and also explain what they were, where they were, and why you would want to set them a certain way for individual pages. I’ve [...]

How to Create Your Own WordPress Shortcodes Using a Plugin

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I recently wrote a couple other tutorials about WordPress Shortcodes, what they are and how to use them in Widgets. This WordPress tutorial will show you how to create your own Shortcodes. The traditional method of creating Shortcodes includes hand coding them inside your theme’s functions.php file. I’m going to show you an easier way [...]