July 2009

Adding a new link to your WordPress-sidebar

July 26, 2009
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Links are the way you can tell your visitors about other sites you recommend.  These can be your sites – your photos page on Flickr, another blog or website you maintain, your page on LinkedIn or any link.  Since you can promote any link, these can also be links to other sites that you would [...]

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How To Change the Order of Your Nav Bar Items in WordPress

July 24, 2009
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By default, WordPress tries to order the Pages in your Navigation bar alphabetically by title. But what if you want to re-order them? Well, don’t worry, it is possible. It’s a bit quirky, but you have total control over which order your navigation items appear in most WP Themes. The key is setting the Order [...]

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Twitter Provides Guide for Business Owners

July 23, 2009
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Twitter has a page now for business owners called Twitter 101. This page provides a nice, easy to follow description of what Twitter is and how to use it for your business. The guide covers topics like: How do businesses use Twitter? How to get started with Twitter Learn the lingo (following, retweets, DMs, etc.) [...]

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How To Add Navigation Sub-Menus in WordPress and the SmallBiz Theme

July 22, 2009
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If you are using the Expand2Web SmallBiz Theme v1.2 or higher you can add sub menus underneath any of your navigation menu items. This video shows you how: Steps for adding sub-menu items: Create a new WordPress Page (not a Post!) If you don’t know the difference, read this article: WordPress Pages vs Posts – [...]

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Adding & managing WordPress categories after the fact

July 21, 2009
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Categories are the key to organizing your WordPress blog.  Even long after a post has been published you can edit the categories. You can edit them one at a time or in bulk.  Check out the easy steps in the video and written out below.

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WordPress Post-Install Checklist

July 20, 2009
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After installing WordPress, there are some important steps that you need to take for security and search engine optimization. This video shows the basic WordPress Post-Install steps that I recommend: Here is a quick list of what is covered: Change default Admin userid and password Delete default post and comment Update WordPress General Settings (Blog [...]

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The RSS widget – pulling any blog feed into your sidebar

July 18, 2009
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The RSS widget lets you display (and customize) the latest updates to any RSS feed in the sidebar of your WordPress blog or website. What is RSS? RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a way to subscribe to the updates of another blog or website. Typically, you would use an RSS reader like Google Reader (that’s [...]

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Spring Cleaning – Adding and deleting categories in WordPress

July 15, 2009
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Categories are the key to organizing your WordPress blog. It’s not something that you need to do everyday – but every now and then a spring cleaning is a good idea. Some reasons why you might need some category cleanup include: You only have 1 or 2 posts in a category.  You planned on writing [...]

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How to Upload a PDF File to Your WordPress Blog

July 14, 2009
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Have you ever wanted to make a PDF file available for download on your WordPress blog or website? For example, maybe you want to make your patient pre-visit form available on your website so new patients can print it off at him and fill it in before coming to the office. This video shows you [...]

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Add a Map to Your Website With Google Web Elements

July 10, 2009
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Just the other day Google released a new gadget to add directions to your website. At first blush, this looked like a pretty cool way to add directions to your website, particularly for offline businesses. A better way to do this is to use Google Web Elements. Google Web Elements makes is super easy to [...]

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