Edit Your Images in WordPress 2.9
WordPress released version 2.9 last week, and one of the best new features it offers is the ability to edit uploaded images! You can upload your image, click the ‘edit image’ button and crop, resize (scale), flip horizontally and vertically, and rotate your images and undo or redo your edits.
Now, if that’s not incentive enough [...]
Continue reading »What Are Categories and Tags and How Are They Used?
Categories are the broad topic divisions of your content, and tags are the more granular, specific topics you write about. Both are used to help make your content more accessible and your navigation easier, and both apply only to posts (not pages.)
While you can add both categories and tags on the fly, it’s a good [...]
Sales Pages in WordPress? Yes, You Can!
Once upon a time, many moons ago, I had a bright idea. As with many of my bright ideas, I didn’t have the time at that moment to execute said bright idea, so it bounced around in the back of my head for awhile.
What was my bright idea? To figure out a way to [...]
Interview with Tom Volkar: WordPress Summer Camp 2009 Sneak Peek
At the request of several of the already registered campers who received this pre-camp BONUS call over the weekend, I am sharing it with you. As Marty Marsh so eloquently put it in an email to me:
“I hope that all of your summer camp participants will listen, and I also hope that you won’t [...]
WordPress 2.8 is Available! (and my list of plug-ins that don't like it)
WordPress 2.8 has hit the streets, folks, and there are some serious goodies awaiting you!
WordPress 2.8 Highlights
* Theme Browser and Installer
* Ability to add Custom Headers
* New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new Widgets API
* New ways to customize [...]
Let Your RSS Subscribers Choose: Full Text or Summary?
WordPress automatically sets up two feeds for you: your posts feed and your comments feed. You have a choice on the posts feed to publish the full text of your post, or a summary. Which do you choose?
Some of your readers may prefer full text feeds, while others prefer a summary. So which group do [...]
Upgrade WordPress Yourself? Yes, You Can!
Upgrading the version of WordPress you were using used to be a rather arduous task, requiring knowledge of FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and server access, which quite frankly, was just a bit much for a lot of folks. End result? Upgrading WordPress to the latest version was relegated to the ’someday I’ll get to that’ list.
With the recent release of WordPress 2.7, upgrading WordPress has become a two-click process anyone can do – even you! No geekiness required.
Continue reading »Color Schemes for the 2.7 Dashboard
If you, like me, have a hard time with the two available color schemes for the WordPress 2.7 admin interface – take heart! Help is on the way.
Continue reading »WordPress 2.7 Feature: Reply to Comments from the Admin Dashboard
I have to tell you, I’m more and more impressed with WordPress 2.7 the more I play with it. So many of the items on my WordPress wish-list have been addressed, it’s like they actually had my list!
The feature I want to “show and tell” today is the ability to reply to comments from the [...]
WordPress 2.7 – I'm Lovin' It!
I’m so jealous. WordPress 2.7 rolled out to WordPress.com users at 8pm EST Thursday night. I will be a happy girl come Wednesday the 10th when 2.7 is scheduled to be released for self-hosted installations. (It might even be before that!)
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