One of the best new features of the WordPress 3.0 upgrade was the support of custom menus. What does this mean for the user? It means that you can now create a menu that uses a completely custom made list of links, not only posts and pages, but also links to any other site you…
One of the basic and most-used WordPress skillz is to upload images and display them in your WordPress blog or site. Here is how to do it: The first thing to remember is that you don’t want to upload huge images straight from your camera. This is for several reasons: The camera gives you image…
It has happened quite often, that a client says to me: I can’t find a way to edit this. I don’t see that option on my screen. Well, it may just be that you have not discovered the Screen Options on the WordPress dashboard. When you are logged into your dashboard, in the right upper…
WordPress Widgets are little self contained apps, that you can drag and drop into your sidebar and they will magically display all kinds of information there, that is pulled from the content of your site. WordPress comes complete with a standard set of Widgets, but if you go to WordPress.org you can find 13,817 plugins…
When you create a post in WordPress you can assign it categories and you can assign tags. What is the difference? Categories allow for a broad grouping of post topics. For example if you blog about traveling, you might have a category for posts dealing with a specific country like “Italy”, “Tanzania” or “India”. Tags…