How to Add Enhanced Contact Form

This plugin makes it easy to create a very nice contact form on your sites. Step 1. Install plugin look for Enhanced WP-ContactForm Step 2. Activate plugin Step 3.  Update Configuration info.  Go to Settings >> Contact Form Start with the Contact email address and the Subject line that YOU will see when someone sends [...]

Post and Page Visual Editor

As we mentioned in class the formatting options are very similar to what is available in a word processor WordPress comes equipped with some great features to allow you to easily format your blog posts and pages without knowing or even seeing the underlying HTML coding. Here is what the Button bar looks like normally [...]

How to Add a Youtube Video

Once you have done this a couple of times you will be an expert! Step 1. Find a Video on youtube that you would like to share Step 2. Click on the Embed button to open the options Step 3. Select your options, the colours and the size of the viewing screen Step 4. Copy [...]

What is a Widget?

“WordPress Widgets (WPW) is like a plugin, but designed to provide a simple way to arrange the various elements of your sidebar content (known as “widgets”) without having to change any code.” Are you smarter now?    so let me explain a little more.  When looking for your new theme, make sure that you pick [...]

Easiest Way to Install Google Analytics

Having statistics for your website is a high priority if you are a business.  You want to know where people are coming from to track if you advertising dollars are paying off.  You can also see what information people are looking for most often. Statistics answer the big questions, who, when, where, what. Why would [...]

How to Change Your Post Writing Space

An easy change that makes a big difference to my comfort level when writing new posts, larger size means less scrolling. Go to Settings > Writing and the first option is ‘Size of the Post Box’. The default is 10 lines. I like mine at 30. I like to be able to easily read and [...]

How to Secure your website

There are a few quick easy tips to just give yourself a step up on the would be hackers out there. 1. Upgrade – Always make sure your running the latest version of wordpress.  If you are self-hosted do this as soon as you receive notice of the latest upgrades.  If you are using managed-hosting [...]

Reader Interaction made Easy

Comments are the best way to engage your readers and keep them coming back. 1. Pretty Comments – Add some formatting capabilities to the comments text areas. 2. Comment Notifier – Currently WordPress only sends an email to the email address entered in the Options->General->E-mail address field when any new comment is submitted or that [...]

How to Add an Image

I love pictures!  of course they have to fit the topic, but a picture really can speak a thousand words. Adding pictures to your posts and pages takes a few simple steps. I am making one assumption that you have pictures stored on your computer, that you have permission to use the pictures.  Check out [...]

What is the Pagemash Plugin?

Updated: June 10, 2010 This Plugin has been retired, you can find info on the newest plugin CMS Tree Page View Here With Pagemash you can Customize the order your pages are listed in and manage the parent structure with this simple ajax drag-and-drop administrative interface with an option to toggle the page to be [...]

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