Category Archives: Wordpress

Wordpress Articles – Tips & Tricks:

While I realize that Wordpress itself is not considered Inbound marketing, certainly blogging is a major component…. if not most important in the inbound scheme of things. With that said, preparing and customizing your blog falls into an important factor in the Inbound scheme of things. I have provided this section to save readers the trouble of searching hundreds of forums for the same information…. Comments and suggestions of course are always welcome.

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WordPress: The perfect “front page slider” – easy home page posts slideshow

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A while back I was dinking around with various front page sliders. For WordPress there are maybe about 10 noted. Though for my needs, I wanted something quick, something easy and one that actually looks pretty decent. I installed a few of which some worked and some didn’t. My search seemed to be complete with the inclusion of “Recent Posts Slider”

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recent-posts-slider/

To make things easy for ya, I’ve included MY recommended settings. I’ve also included a screen shot (click for larger view) for those who like to just see everything visually.

The section that says “Category IDs” is used for keeping certain categories OUT of the slider.
(NOTE the use of a negative number) Continue reading WordPress: The perfect “front page slider” – easy home page posts slideshow →

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WordPress: How to Remove the Header from a Theme?

Sometimes you might find that you need to remove the header (top banner) portion from a WordPress theme. It may be for a certain look or even to include your own coded header.
To take that top portion out of your theme is actually pretty easy…and you can do so without deleting the code.

01– Open your theme’s file “header.php”

02– Locate this piece of code in your “header.php”  file.

<img src=”<?php header_image(); ?>” width=”<?php echo HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH; ?>” height=”<?php echo HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT; ?>” alt=”” />

03– Now to disable it, just comment that whole section out. Continue reading WordPress: How to Remove the Header from a Theme? →

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WordPress: Plugins – Upgrades that don’t work Solution

How to undo a plugin Upgrade

Often WordPress updates its core file, along with it you might get notifications of your plugins that need upgraded.
Though what I have found is that plugin upgrades are not always correct, or even always the version that worked for you best. This could be due to a number of things, compatibility, themes…..take your pick.

Did you know that plugins on the WordPress plugin directory save old versions?

Easy enough if you upgrade a plugin that doesn’t work, you can go back tot he original page and download its previous version

(now you’ll have to uninstall the new version completely as well)
(Make sure to write down any settings that you might have to reset)

01- Go to the WordPress plugin directory Continue reading WordPress: Plugins – Upgrades that don’t work Solution →

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Worpdress Homepage that shows HTML Excerpts, thumbnails and videos – How to?

Customizing my homepage in wordpress to show excerpts while also including videos and html tags

By using a little code change and the use of 2 plugins, I was able to customize my homepage (frontpage) to include a nice use of html tags and my embedded videos. Why the video part was important to me was that I was getting less video plays when they were only available on the full posts. Alot of my video traffic came from my front page announcements which was easier for the users to click and play. So I had to come up with a solution that included excerpts, videos showing and thumbnails……..not easy

The good news is I worked thru all the parameters to a really easy solution

INSTRUCTIONS:

01– Open up your file,  loop.php and change the following page code (backup up just in case)

– do a search for “the_content()” and replace with “the_excerpt()”
– this will set up “excerpts” instead of full posts for your homepage (only)

02– Add plugins below and note instructions:

Want to see a visual example of this? Check out HTML exceprts with thumbnails and video here

PLUGIN:”ADVANCED EXCERPT” (location once installed     dashboard->plugins–>Excerpt)
On bottom where it says more tags, make sure and add “param”, “div”, “object” to list
– now uncheck “div” and “img” (you uncheck markup that you don’t want showing)
– this will put your video on the front home page, the “div” will be removed so it doesn’t look odd

Need to add youtube / vimeo or daily motion to excerpt?
In plugin :”ADVANCED EXCERPT”, make sure and add these tags, leave them “checked” Continue reading Worpdress Homepage that shows HTML Excerpts, thumbnails and videos – How to? →

SEO, Wordpress

How to add a file extension to your WordPress posts?

If you are looking for the optimum SEO format for your filenames, you’ll want to set this up pretty early so you don’t got and change it later. If your wordpress site is already ranking and you have pages getting indexed, then this permalinks solution will cause errors on those pages within the search engine

Now the reason for adding a filename extension is due merely to a posting on Google where Matt Cutts says it’s better to have files with extensions for a more natural indexing. Meaning, that you might increase your chances slightly.

Again if your site has been around for some time, I’d pass on this little SEO tweak. Fro new sites, you’ll want to follow accordingly.

01- Login in your WordPress admin

02- Click Permalinks below the Settings tab

03– In permalinks page you will see your WordPress default permalinks structure is /%category%/%postname%/

04– Now just add .html to that structure.
So it will look like /%category%/%postname%.html Continue reading How to add a file extension to your WordPress posts? →

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WordPress: Forgot Password?

How to recover?
Wordpress password recovery?
Hacked wordpress – need to change password?

3 ways

01- You can change your password while logged (via your profile)

Users–>Your Profile (scroll to bottom)
(now enter a new password)

02- You can change your password when locked out (forgot)
– Navigate to WordPress login screen (wp-admin)
– Click the “lost your password” link
– Enter username of email (it will get mailed it to you)
– Then click “Get new password” Continue reading WordPress: Forgot Password? →