If you recently logged in to make a new blog post, clicked on Posts > Add New, and went to use your Visual Editor options, you may have found yourself muttering, “Where did my underline button go? Where did my Paste from Word option go? Why did they change things? Why did they take away […]
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Looking for a way to display excerpts of your posts, rather than showing the entire content and making your main blog page 100 feet long? There are simple ways to keep your main blog page looking clean and brief.
WordPress themes using the Genesis Framework offer 4 options for showing excerpts of your posts.
What are Keywords? Keywords are the words or phrases you type into the search box when you do a search. When someone types ‘blue widgets’ into the search box, the search engines look for sites that include the words ‘blue widgets’, and returns those as search results. So, are your keywords showing? If not, your
Often, when creating menu in WordPress that has a drop down menu beneath it, you don’t want the top menu item linked. To create a menu item that doesn’t link, you want to to add a Link instead of a Page, from the left hand side of the Menus page. Where it asks you to
Are you trying to move your cursor down one line space in the WordPress editor, but it keeps adding two spaces? There’s a reason for this! The page is coded in HTML and there is one tag for a line breaks (one space) and another tag for a paragraph (two spaces). Use Shift+Enter for a
This week I was looking for a WordPress plugin for a client that would enable them to sell a PDF e-book on their existing WordPress site. The requirements were pretty simple so there was no need to install an elaborate shopping cart plugin that would take hours to setup & configure. But they did want
How do you find the right WordPress plugin for your website? Check out the 4 steps below that we use to determine which plugins are worth trying and which ones are not!
A “favicon” is the icon that identifies your website in a browser tab or when someone bookmarks your website. This is a short tutorial on how to create a favicon and install it on a WordPress website using the Genesis Framework.
Updated 3/5/2016 Step 1 – Keyword Research The first step of getting your website to show up in the search engines, is to first figure out what terms people are searching for. If your website is aimed at selling “metal gadgets” but people more commonly search for the words “gadgets made of metal” you’ll probably
Pages Versus Posts Pages: Pages are static locations for information to reside in.Pages: – Not part of the date driven post stream – Have no categories or tags– Hierarchical may have child/parent pages– Hidden from the RSS feed Posts:Posts are individual entries of information that can be sorted by Date, Categories, and Tags.Posts: – bits
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