Blogging

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Whether you are coding a blog layout for WordPress, Typepad, Blogger, or another platform, knowledge of HTML and CSS are required. The Web programming language HTML controls the structure of your…

With the economy still struggling and many of us trying to stretch our fashion budgets to the max, do-it-yourself style is more popular than ever. It's become all the rage to make beautiful new things…

To make your WordPress-based website load faster, you might decide to use caching. Caching plug-ins offer many options for caching parts of your pages on the server, and you may choose to employ a…

Give away ideas from a Blogger blog to a WordPress blog to give the WordPress blog the look and feel of the Blogger blog. Although not all features and functions of Blogger blogs are directly…

WordPress began in 2003 to provide a platform for users specifically to create blogs. These online journals emerged in popularity in the dawn of the 21st Century, which helped this user-friendly site…

The "LIMIT" clause controls how many results are returned back from a SQL query, and is available on MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. It's readily available to WordPress developers, since the…

A variety of potential causes can lead to a white screen appearing when leaving a comment on someone else's blog. If the problem is restricted to one blog in particular, it's likely there is an issue…

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, or Ajax, has become very popular and is used in many WordPress themes. This popularity, however, does not necessarily mean that Ajax is being implemented correctly.…

An initial installation of WordPress creates a site that, while fully functional, may not totally suit your needs. A lack of customization features makes it difficult to change the look, feel and…

For those who are not design- or development-savvy, a common practice when contracting a new WordPress design is to "mock-up" the look you want for your site in a Photoshop PSD file. Several…

Migrating from an ASP-based website to a WordPress-based website means you'll have to move all of the content from your previous website into the WordPress site, as well as set up the menu structure…

Not all WordPress plugins are created equal. WordPress plug ins offer add-ins and extension features to a theme built upon the WordPress platform. While the WordPress platform is continually updated,…

When you use plugins with the Multi-User or Multi-Site version of WordPress, you can activate a single plugin across multiple sites with a single click. From your network dashboard, you can manage…

WordPress, a content management system, allows you to post text-based Web content to a blog site. Because the default setting for the text editor is a "what you see is what you get" type,…

If you use a website hosting service, you can install and create multiple blogs by installing each blog in its own subdirectory. Installing blogs to individual subdirectories allows you to map a…

You can set a specific value for the "Posts Per Page" variable in WordPress to entirely remove the posts per page limitation on the category page. To properly remove the posts per page on…

The Blogger platform comes with its own built-in lightbox tool for displaying multiple pictures within blog posts, but you can also install a third-party lightbox tool through the Blogger interface.…

The best way to control your WordPress site with AJAX is to install one or more AJAX-based plugins. These types of plugins enhance your site with AJAX features, which control how your posts, pages,…

Blogrolls originated as simple lists of links to other blogs, displayed in a sidebar. The purpose of a blogroll is to show your readers what other blogs you are reading and find valuable. In…

You can avoid spam in your Wordpress blog's comments by having your readers sign in to comment using the OpenID authentication standard. To enable this open standard, you must connect your blog to an…

When you no longer want a post, page or comment to display within your WordPress blog, you send it to the "Trash," just as you would do to an object on your computer desktop. Several options…

Most of Tumblr is sequential in a reverse chronological order: a single stream of content, with the newest content on top and the oldest content on the bottom. This holds true on the dashboard, on the…

Even though it began as a simple blogging platform, WordPress is quickly becoming the content management system of choice for easy to control and manage websites. WordPress consists of a MySQL…

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML allow websites to respond to clicks and display updated content without forcing your browser to refresh the page. WordPress uses AJAX throughout its administration…

The Lightbox Plus plugin provides lightbox effects for all of your WordPress images. When a visitor clicks an image on your blog, the full-sized image will automatically open in a floating layer…

Gravatars are globally recognized avatars used on blogs. Each time you comment on a blog or forum, your Gravatar will appear next to it. Gravatars are 80-by-80-pixel photos, usually with a picture of…

The vBulletin message-board software installs on your Web server to provide your site visitors with a communication method. The standard install sets up the vBulletin logo as the default image in the…

The PHP session class lets you create sessions for use in your WordPress blog pages. WordPress includes a PHP editor with which you edit and customize the WordPress installation. You use sessions to…

The WordPress admin dashboard is part of the WordPress core. Site administrators and users should not modify the WordPress core due to the potential implications of making a mistake, which could cause…

By default, WordPress directs visitors to a WordPress blog to that website's main URL, rather than a specific page such as "index.html" or "index.php." Several reasons underlie…

The Pods CMS Framework gives a key feature of powerful content management systems such as Drupal and Joomla to the WordPress blog engine: the ability to create custom content types with custom fields.…

The WordPress blog interface requires all users to create a password that protects their accounts. The site encourages users to create a complex password, so that it is more difficult for other people…

A Web page has three types of page widths: fixed, fluid and hybrid. In a fixed layout, the width of the content area does not alter with the width of the browser window. In a fluid layout, it does. A…

WordPress is an open source platform that allows you to create a blog accessible from any Web browser. If your WordPress blog doesn’t display in IE 8, there may be several culprits causing the…

The URL of your blog can become part of your brand and you may find yourself printing it on business cards, magnets and other advertising materials. You should consistently use the same address in…

In a WordPress network, you have a main or “home” blog that is usually located on the domain's home page. Each child blog on the network has its own administrator, but the owner of the…

Gravatars, a shorthand for globally recognized avatars, are images that represent a blog user when posting or commenting on blogs. Gravatars can be easily created and implemented into different blog…

WordPress and Drupal provide ways to create configurable, interactive websites. The two platforms work differently from each other, and the specifics of how to accomplish any given task are quite…

Lightbox is a script that overlays images on websites. A small thumbnail of the image appears, and when the user clicks it, the full version appears in the middle of the screen, while the rest of the…

DotNetNuke, often called DNN for short, contains a built-in blog module that lets you easily create administrator or user blogs. The module must be added to a specific page, so you'll want to create a…

The Internet is filled with bloggers and journalists who share content daily on topics from business and politics to pop culture and education. Writers tend to spend time reading other content on the…

A variety of factors may result in a timeout when you attempt to log in to WordPress, which range from basic Web browser issues to complex problems with your WordPress site. Rule out simple causes of…

After you finish editing a WordPress widget, which is a visual, interactive plug-in within a WordPress blog, you can "collapse" the widget within the "Widgets" menu to hide its…

Android phones give you the option of syncing the device with your Google account. This can help you import contacts and photos to your phone. If you have a Blogger account, your photos are stored in…

The WordPress platform provides a user-friendly interface to update and manage your blog's content. You can protect the blog's content by creating a backup using the WP-DB-Backup plug-in. The plug-in…

Quicktags are a downloaded tool used in conjunction with Wordpress blogs that allows users to insert coding with the click of a button. Adding media to blogs was once a very time consuming task, but…

Moving posts from your Blogger blog to a WordPress setup doesn't have to be a difficult task. Instead of leaving you to copy and paste all of your posts from one platform to another, the websites have…

If you have created a presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint, you can upload it to your Blogger blog to share the presentation with your readers. You can upload the presentation directly from your…