What if I upload a photo and then realize it’s too big? Since we’re living in an era where even your phone takes an image that can be 1800 pixels wide or long, it’s a good thing the newer versions of WordPress have a native re-size function! The only thing you need is to know [...]
How to Change the Order of Posts (and Products)
I have worked on a couple of projects over the past few months that both needed similar “tweaks” to the usual method WordPress uses to order Posts as well as delving into the various ins and outs of ordering product listings in sites that use the WP E-Commerce plugin. It’s basically very easy. All it [...]
New Site: DeathWishpiano.com
Once DeathWish Piano Movers owner Greg Keane stepped in front of the cameras for the Travel Channel’s new show, DeathWish Movers, he realized that his company would need to update their website to a more dynamic version that would also function as their online storefront. Since hoisting Black Sabbath-worthy mixing consoles and antique Steinways out [...]
“Random Image, Meet Short Code Exec PHP”
-Now shake hands and play nice… I’m putting together a proposal site for a (potential) client and using Sayontan’s excellent “Suffusion” theme. What makes it awesome (for me) is that it’s a snap to customize with the various customizing menus. And, it comes with a bunch of different layout templates so it’s easy to set [...]
Site Launch: Michael McCarthy Law
Michael McCarthy Law has been in development for a while now and readers will soon find that it was worth the wait! Meant to be much more than a simple “shingle site” for a Personal Injury and Estate Handling firm, MML is aimed at educating both current and potential clients, an approach that more and [...]
A Guide to Web Color-
-right in your own (WordPress) backyard! I was ready to do a search for a good online hexadecimal color guide for a client, when I realized that they have one right there in the Editing window!
How To Start A Forum Topic In WordPress
Let’s face it, sooner or later you are going to have to check out the WordPress support forums for help with your WordPress site. So, to save you a lot of time-consuming trudging through the Codex and all over Google for information on how to find help with troubleshooting your site, I’ll give you some [...]
How To Custom Color Your Links in WordPress and Blogger
So you want to include a link in your WordPress or Blogger site, but the usual link color won’t do? There’s an easy way to color your links with inline styling! Since this takes advantage of the cascade function in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), it’s a great way to add extra spice to a link [...]
Post or Page?
If there is one issue that consistently crops up with new clients who have WP sites, it’s defining which content is a Post and which is a Page. WP actually has a fairly decent guideline: Pages are like posts except they live outside of the normal blog chronology and can be hierarchical. You can use [...]
Tabling the Matter
This is actually an addendum to the previous post, “A Case of the DT’s”. While a Definition List worked for the simple matter of placing an image and some information together neatly, when I wanted similar information to line up across the page, things got crazy again! After an hour of the “WordPress Shuffle” (changing [...]
