It’s been about a week and a half since I started this blog and I’m beginning to get spam comments as well as pingbacks from blogs that are just posting the first paragraph of my posts. Since I don’t want to have to moderate each individual comment, especially as the site grows, today I’m going […]
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At the time of this writing, I’m using the Thematic Theme Framwork. I’m sure I’ll build my own theme for this blog in time, but for the moment I’m concentrating on other things. The Thematic Theme Framwork has 13 widget ready areas, which is more than plenty. I’m just going to rearrainge my sidebar today,
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There are two reasons I like to install WordPress in its own folder, rather than the root. First, I like to keep my root folder uncluttered. I don’t like a bunch of WordPress files that I’ll never be messing with getting in my way. That’s just a matter of personal preference though. The second reason
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This will also be in my upcoming post on improving SEO in WordPress, but since I promised to write about everything I’m doing on this blog, I’ll make a separate post about it now. Permalink structure refers to the way URLs are formed within WordPress. For example, the default permalink structure in WordPress looks like
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The default tagline “Just another WordPress weblog” is obviously not the description I would choose for my blog. Today I’m going to change it, and I’ll show you how to change yours as well. 1. Login If you’re already logged in to WordPress, skip step 1 🙂 2. Change the tagline You can change the
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Installing a New wordpress theme is quite simple. With very little effort, you can transform the look and feel of your blog. I started this blog less than a week ago and I’m definitely getting tired of looking at the default theme. Eventually I’ll create my own theme for this blog, but for now I’m
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In my last post, I explained step by step how to install WordPress manually. However, not everyone is a web developer, so I figured I should mention that there are a few ways to use WordPress without installing it yourself. First, you could hire me to do it! But that isn’t really the point of
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As promised, here is a step-by-step guide to installing WordPress manually. 1. Download WordPress Go to http://wordpress.org/download/ and download WordPress. Click the “Download WordPress” button and save the .zip file to your computer. I personally use Linux, so I chose to download the more compressed .tar.gz file from the small link below the button, but
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