Archive for April, 2007
« Previous EntriesEditing and installing plugins
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007This is the third part of the answer to the following question.
I’m new to blogging with WP. I want to know how to quickly modify a theme template and edit a plug-in without being a geek-nerd
The past two days we discussed the theme portion. Today lets talk about the plugins.
Quite a few plugins don’t require [...]
Customizing your graphics
Monday, April 23rd, 2007This is a continuation of the question asked yesterday.
I’m new to blogging with WP. I want to know how to quickly modify a theme template and edit a plug-in without being a geek-nerd
Yesterday I talked about changing themes and more importantly picking the right theme which is the key if you don’t want to be [...]
Changing themes without being a geek-nerd
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007Here is today’s question.
I’m new to blogging with WP. I want to know how to quickly modify a theme template and edit a plug-in without being a geek-nerd
Actually you should rarely need to edit the themes other than graphics. Obviously, you can edit them in lots of ways but mostly you pick a theme that [...]
Sick and now traveling
Saturday, April 21st, 2007Sorry for the lack of updates here. This Old Bald Guy has been hit by some bug that has slowed an already slow guy down even more.
I will be traveling today down to Philadelphia for a Word Press meet up. It will be my first time but figure it would be good to actually get [...]
I thought blogs were for kids?
Monday, April 16th, 2007This is a question I got a while ago. Kind of like MySpace. Lots of people think that they are just for kids. Blogs can be very effective for your small business and more and more you are seeing large businesses add blogs to their websites. Like MySpace there are more adults and businesses blgging [...]
Rating Dominator arrives today
Sunday, April 15th, 2007Jason De Velvis has released a new plug in today called Rating Dominator. You can use it to allow people to rate your content when they leave comments. It also allows others to rate the comments and whether or not they are useful.
This can allow you to generate more comments and interaction with your [...]
Web 2.0 and SEO teleseminar
Saturday, April 14th, 2007Yesterday I talked about generating traffic to your blog and the various ways to do that. I also mentioned that I would be doing a teleseminar this coming week with an expert on using Web 2.0 and SEO to generate extra traffic to your blog, Ross Goldberg.
The details are firmed up and the call will [...]
Traffic, traffic, traffic
Friday, April 13th, 2007Next to how to make money with a blog the biggest question I get by far is how to get more traffic.
First and foremost is good content and regular postings. If your content, pardon the expresion sucks, then you just won’t get people to come back to your blog. Sorry that is the facts. Along [...]
Upgrading Word Press versions
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007Before I get into todays question just a bit of an aside. I love using Google’s Alerts to keep track of various topics of interest to me. I found a gentleman who had asked about upgrading his Word Press blog as Word Press upgrade is one of the topics I watch. I made a comment [...]
Video plugin
Monday, April 9th, 2007Okay this is the plugin that I had a problem with. Turns out it wasn’t my fault and at this point it won’t work in the rich text editor within WordPress 2.1.3. It does work fine if you turn off the rich text editor.
You can do that under users - your profile. Just uncheck the [...]