Archive for January, 2007

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What page does what part 1?

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

This series of posts will cover what the various pages within your theme editor control. Now some themes have additional pages and I will only cover the basic pages to help you understand how the pieces fit together. Here are the basic theme files on most Word Press blogs. I will go through the default [...]

How do I edit my theme?

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

If you are familiar with HTML you can edit parts of the theme of your blog.
First it easiest to edit from your dashboard but you have to have chmodded the theme pages to 666. No, it’s not the sign of the devil but it will allow you to wiite to the files ;-). If you [...]

Another update from Word Press

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

After just releasing 2.06 about 10 days ago Word Press has issued another upgrade yesterday to version 2.07. Here is what has been changed from the Word Press Development blog.
Here are the changes that have been made since 2.0.6:

Security fix for wp_unregister_GLOBALS() to work around the zend_hash_del_key_or_index bug in PHP 4 versions less than 4.4.3 [...]

What is CSS?

Monday, January 15th, 2007

CSS stands for cascading style sheet. In relation to Word Press blogs it controls the look of the page displayed.
You can control the font size, color, what is bold, define your header tags to change the look of your blog through the CSS file on most themes. You can change the background, background colors, and [...]

What is a trackback?

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

A trackback is basically a link from another blog that is commenting on your post to that particular post. If your blog is set up to allow trackbacks it will post a relavent slug from the referrence made to your post in your comments on that section.
This allows you to see what people are saying [...]

Comments - Do you contribute or do you spam?

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

After writing your blog post one of most bloggers favorite things is to get comments. After all how do you know if people are even reading your blog if there is no conversation.
The problem comes in with the people who have decided that gee the search engines like blogs and if I can get my [...]

What is a ping?

Friday, January 12th, 2007

A ping is a notification that your blog sends to various services to let them know that you have changed your content. This is one of the advantages of a properly set up blog. Now it is easy to get banned at various ping services if you are pinging and haven’t put up new content.
This [...]

How do I change the theme of my blog?

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

One of the nice things about Word Press is that you can totally change the look of your blog in a few minutes. If you have the file loaded you only need a few mouse clicks to change the look of your blog.
Now a quick caveat - If you have customized the theme you are [...]

New poll on the Squidoo lens

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

One of the things that I would like to know to help me provide better content for you the reader is the answer to various questions.
Today the question is have you upgraded your blog to the newest version 2.06 and did you do it right away?
You can vote at the Squidoo lens for Word Press [...]

How many categories do I need?

Monday, January 8th, 2007

Answering this question is like answering how long is a piece of string? It will vary from blog to blog.
Deciding how many categories to create will depend on how tightly targetted your blog is. If you cover 10 topics then you could easily have 20 or more if you only had 2 subtopics for each [...]

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