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…
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…
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…
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 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,…
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…
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…
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 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…
Your WordPress website automatically displays a vertical scrollbar on the right side of the browser window when the content exceeds the length of the page. This feature enables you to move your site…
Twenty Eleven, the default theme for WordPress blogs, devotes a large portion of the top of the screen to displaying a "featured image" that the blog owner selects when creating a post or…
If your HostGator account allows you to create subdomains, you can use this feature to create several independent websites under a single domain name. For example, creating a subdomain such as…
Breadcrumbs are an essential part of navigation for a blog, especially a large blog with several inner pages. Breadcrumbs help your users go back to a category or a main page instead of clicking the…
The DreamHost account dashboard does not have a traditional file manager like cPanel and other common Web hosting management tools. It does, however, include a feature known as WebFTP, which lets you…
Twenty Eleven, the default theme included with WordPress, uses a large portion of the screen to display the top image or "header" of a page. The default header image size is 1000 by 288…
The term “suckerfish” refers to dropdown menus. Both are the same thing, being menus that contain submenus that drop down when the user hovers a mouse pointer over certain items. Many…
The WordPress application includes global variables you can import and display in your blog webpages. You must use the PHP coding editor in the WordPress dashboard to add the global variables to the…
WordPress, an open-source platform for blogging, is essentially a database on top of a Web server. All your posts are contained within the database, and if that becomes corrupt or if the…
Use a free Web service to create PSD, or Photoshop, images for your WordPress theme. Note that if the Photoshop image you create for a section of your theme is too small for the section, the image…
You can use a BlackBerry device to view, add comments to and even maintain your WordPress blog. With a BlackBerry, users are able to browse blogs made with WordPress templates through the device's…
To allow interactive chat on your website using a WordPress theme, you need to install a third party widget or plugin that provides the chat function. Widgets and plugins are related terms for adding…
A tracking code makes it possible for you to monitor and manage Internet traffic on your WordPress site. WordPress offers plugins that you can install on your site to add additional functionality.…
The team widget in the WordPress Vulcan theme grabs the posts featured in your team widget category, displaying the profiles within the widget. If a team member's bio has changed, or if a member is no…
Plugins for Wordpress add additional functionality to your blog or website. There are numerous link plugins that you can install that provide additional functionality in the form of link checkers,…
According to the WordPress developers, most of the standard WordPress plugins are also compatible with WordPress MU. You can manually check to see if a plugin is compatible by installing it on your…
Getting thousands of daily hits on your website could turn out to be a mixed blessing. To handle the added traffic without slowing to a crawl, you will need a scalable system, one that can upgrade to…
The WordPress plug-ins repository contains several lightbox plug-ins, including Lightbox Plus, jQuery Lightbox, Lightbox Gallery and Lightbox 2, which you can add to your blog free of charge. Any of…
Many WordPress themes have a fixed width by default. A fixed width is one set to a specific pixel value. For example, a site with a fixed width of 800 pixels will always be 800 pixels wide, no matter…
Several factors can lead to trouble using Blogging platform WordPress on your BlueHost-hosted website. WordPress comes installed on all BlueHost websites, which permits you to add it to any domain you…
Combine elements from past themes you've used on a WordPress blog to implement them into the Thesis theme. Thesis is a premium WordPress "framework" that gives you the flexibility to…
The WP Client File Share plug-in for WordPress extends WordPress with private file-sharing pages. Each user account with file-sharing permissions you create has their own file-sharing page where they…
To install premium WordPress themes you need to connect to your website and upload the files. The usual way to connect to the site is with an FTP client. You need a user name and password to connect…
WordPress-powered blogs and websites can reside on your domain or even if a specific directory or subdomain. You can link to any non-WordPress page or subdomain by adding the code to your theme but…
On WordPress 3.0 and higher sites, you can use plug-ins to create meta descriptions for the pages on your site. These descriptions are called "meta" because they don't appear on the page…
WordPress relies on template files that control the look and feel of your website as well as a SQL database that hosts all of the content and text of your site. If you plan on moving your WordPress…
FeedBurner is a service offered by Google that enables advanced syndication of website content. FeedBurner will allow content published to your WordPress site to be syndicated to remote sites and…
Publishers who use WordPress as the engine to create a blog or website are typically interested in reaching the largest audience possible. Web publishing is not limited to just creating a website. It…
Drupal and WordPress both are content-management systems (CMS) used to produce dynamic websites without the need for laborious hand-coding. However, WordPress tends to offer greater ease of use and a…
The migration of a site from Blogger to WordPress has been automated with a set of import scripts built in to WordPress since version 2.0. You may run into errors that prevent the transfer of your…
The “Internal Server 500 Error” refers to any error that causes your website not to load. The 500 error is a general error that means something in the configuration of your website is not…
WordPress unconfirmed users have had their status manually changed to "Pending" by a site administrator, or they've yet to fulfill your specific requirements for activation, such as…
Besides containing content that is displayed at the bottom of a website, such as meta tags and blog archives, the footer file of a WordPress theme often includes contact and copyright information and…
When creating or searching for a pre-made WordPress theme, you will want to display information besides your posts. You can do so in customize headers, sidebars and even footers. Because WordPress…
When you publish an article to your WordPress blog, the system automatically will notify the other authors and sites with which you are linked. It is considered good "netiquette" to notify…
If you're integrating a WordPress blog into an existing website, you might experience a problem when attempting to visit the existing website's home page. WordPress uses a URL rewrite code to pass all…
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a chatting system that works over the Internet. Users of IRC typically log on to an IRC server through a stand-alone chat client that does not run inside a browser. Some…
WordPress is a content management system that enables you to perform several activities automatically or with minimal effort. Its automated ping service notifies linked websites every time you publish…
The WordPress default setting for a permalink -- the individual, permanent link associated with a blog post -- displays your blog post pages with a number. If you want the WordPress post to display…
The WordPress blogging platform includes a number of features that let you customize the look and feel of your blog to make it all your own. One such feature is the ability to install themes that fit…
The WordPress footer, generated by the theme's footer template file (footer.php), is an ideal location for several codes, such as advertising and tracking codes. The third-party scripts usually load…
Traffic-sharing plugins let visitors to your WordPress site email, bookmark and share your website or blog content. Dozens of traffic-sharing plugins are available for download from the WordPress…
WordPress allows you to customize your blog's appearance to suit your own design goals and needs. You can create your own theme or install a pre-made theme. Even with pre-made themes, you can…
The default WordPress system, like most blog-management systems, displays your posts in reverse chronological order. This means your latest entry is on the top part of the WordPress "Loop," which is…
Blogger and WordPress are content management systems that allow individuals and organizations to publish blogs and websites. Blogger and WordPress offer hosted solutions, where you can sign up for an…
Later releases of the WordPress content management system include a plug-in known as JetPack. The JetPack plug-in is primarily a statistics plug-in, but it also includes a few other features,…
The WordPress content management system dashboard gives users the ability to relocate WordPress admin panels or columns. However, if there is a problem with your admin panel, and you cannot see a…
A tracking snippet is code that you can add to your website or blog, such as a WordPress blog, that allows a tracking service to function. This is is a common way to install online trackers such as…
Webmin, a Web hosting administration panel, does not come with a one-click WordPress installation like some other admin panels. You manually install WordPress through Webmin, which requires loading…
All websites and Internet accessible data may be subject to malicious exploitation. The Structured Query Language used in modern databases is one of the most common vectors of attack. SQL injection…
WordPress themes come in parts, called template files, that build each page of your blog based on what content the visitor is reading. The footer goes in its own file, which is then loaded into other…
In most WordPress themes, an excerpt of each post is displayed by default, rather than the full post content. Themes use the excerpt generator, a core part of WordPress's configuration system. The…
Since the beginning of the Web, it has been popular among some website owners to add hit counters to websites, letting each visitor know how many visitors have seen the website before. A hit counter…
Excerpts in WordPress are snippets or previews of blog posts or articles. One can either manually specify a post's excerpt in the post editing screen, or rely on the automatically generated excerpt.…
The NextGen Gallery is a free WordPress plugin that takes the place of the default gallery and image handling features included in the script. This plugin expands the image related features that…
The benefits of transferring your Blogspot blog to the WordPress platform are contingent on what you’re looking for in a blogging platform. WordPress and Blogspot are both well-designed…
PHP's power lies in its flexibility and effectiveness combined with a friendliness that allows beginners and veterans alike to make use of it. It is the programming language behind the popular…
WordPress is a content management system website platform that allows you to customize and update your website from an online dashboard. Several WordPress files control the look and feel of the…
Backing up WordPress, allows you to save to your computer, a copy of your WordPress installment --- including all posts, comments, categories and custom fields. If your WordPress installment becomes…
A Flash SWF file lets you add an animation to your WordPress blog's header. The animation can also contain sound that plays when the user opens the Web page. You must edit the header page for your…
WordPress provides a free blogging platform for users who want to start a blog. To make your posts easier to read and more visually appealing, break up long blocks of text with paragraphs. Create new…
Add a widgetized footer to a WordPress blog or website theme to allow for easy manipulation of items in the site footer. WordPress' "widgets" feature allows you to drag and drop items such as lists of…
Moving a domain from a WordPress blog to a Blogger site isn't difficult, but it does help to have experience editing Domain Name Server (DNS) records. It doesn't matter where you originally purchased…
You can monitor hits to your WordPress-powered blog by installing free plug-ins that connect your blog to various analytic services. Once installed, configuring the WordPress analytic plug-ins to…
WordPress is a useful tool for programmers who want to start their own Web development blogs. You can get a WordPress site up in a matter of minutes and begin posting right away, but authoring a code…
The WordPress Sphinx Search plugin replaces WordPress's default search function with a more advanced engine. The Sphinx Search plugin lets you customize search results, including the number of…
WP Skinner is a site featuring dozens of downloadable WordPress themes. Like the themes in the WordPress repository, WP Skinner's themes are free. Because the site's themes aren't in the repository,…
Anchors in Web pages create targets for scroll down links. In WordPress, you can add a custom link to your menu to add a scroll down tab that links to an anchor. Rather than entering a URL in the…
WordPress has several plugins that let you assign an article rating system to WordPress posts and pages. The plugin functions vary. You can choose to use a zero to 10 star rating system or a simple…
Headers display content such as logos, website titles and sometimes menus, icons and search bars as well. Typical WordPress blog headers include at least the blog name and its tagline, also known as…
WordPress is an open source blogging platform that also works well as a Content Management System for building websites. Users extend the functionality of their blogs by installing plugins. Installing…
Each blog you create under WordPress creates a different database in which it stores the applicable data. If you want to install multiple databases on your WordPress account, you simply need to create…
The developer Big Webmaster has only designed one theme for the WordPress content management system, known as "Calming 2010." Calming 2010 is a child theme for the WordPress default theme, Twenty Ten.…
The WordPress blog management program can be installed on almost any Web server because of its open-source nature. You can install WordPress onto your WampServer by downloading the WordPress…
Widgets are small Web applications that display in the sidebars and sometimes footers of WordPress blogs. The exact code used to display the widgets depends on your theme, the template that dictates…
WordPress Sandbox is a starter theme for the WordPress content management system, designed for Web developers who want to start with a clean slate for design customizations. By default, Sandbox…
WordPress is a popular blogging platform that some Web hosts, such as Bluehost, offer as part of their packages. Bluehost comes with a WordPress installer included as part of Fantastico, which can…
The default WordPress dashboard includes content widgets such as "Quick Press," "WordPress News" and "Right Now," which display the number of posts, pages and comments. If you are dissatisfied with…
In WordPress, the file "sidebar.php" contains the settings for the visual design of your website's sidebar as well as the default widgets that are automatically installed with your WordPress theme if…
Show extra quotes in a WordPress blog post to set off an important passage or quotation in a published post. Using the "block quote" feature in WordPress not only places a pair of quotes around…
The name for a WordPress theme is declared in the theme's primary style sheet, which means you can easily rename a theme by editing the display name within the style sheet. Fortunately, a theme's…
When moving your WordPress installation from one domain to another, most steps are automated using the WordPress export feature and import plugins. Photos on the new website will remain intact, linked…
If you have a WordPress website with multiple contributors, you may prefer to add new content to the website yourself rather than giving each contributor full access to the website. For this reason,…
The upgrade process for WordPress can be performed inside the WordPress application.You may experience times when you're required to activate your WordPress installation by upgrading its database,…
By default, most WordPress themes are set up to display a post's full content, unless yuo manually set it to show an excerpt instead. You can either manually create a post excerpt for each post, or…
Although WordPress includes a default RSS feed, using Feedburner in its place can help you keep track of your feed subscribers, and it gives you advanced control over your feed. You can choose whether…
WordPress inherently supports the "Blockquote" feature within the post editor. This feature is for including quotes longer than one line. It places them in their own separate section and generally…
Most WordPress themes come with multiple widgetized areas for adding site widgets. Common widgetized areas include the upper and lower sidebar and the footer. Widgets are elements you can assign to…
WordPress is a blogging platform available free from WordPress.org. You can download and install the WordPress framework on your self-hosted website and access the WordPress dashboard, which allows…
Plug-ins allow you to extend the ability of WordPress beyond a basic blog engine to a functioning content management system. If you have a retail-type website built on the WordPress platform, you may…
Remove links to your RSS feed from your WordPress theme if you use WordPress to operate a static website, rather than a blog you update frequently. WordPress themes have links to RSS feeds embedded in…
Set footer options for your WordPress theme to show a different footer image each time someone visits your page, just as other developers do with different header images. Modifying the WordPress…
The delayed posting feature in WordPress gives you total control over your blog's publishing schedule. With delayed posts, you decide when an entry appears on your blog index. Whether you need to…
Gravity Forms is one plug-in that you may use to create contact or other forms on your WordPress website. Although you must pay for this software, PayPal and BuddyPress integration extend…
WordPress, a blog and content management platform, is sometimes used in conjunction with the open-source forum application called phpBB. In fact, using a plug-in called Wp2BB, you can integrate phpBB…
Avoid Blogger link redirects when moving to WordPress to make sure links you've made to other posts within your blog re-direct to WordPress after you import the blog, not Blogger. Blogger doesn't…
By default, the WordPress blogging software includes a limit on the number of posts that appear per page. While this is convenient for those who want a blog that divides its pages according to a set…
MediaWiki and WordPress are two separate content management systems used to post information and writing on the Internet. While the two systems are separate in function, you can install a plug-in that…
WordPress is a personal publishing platform that you can install on a self-hosted website. Characterized by its ease of use and the availability of numerous custom templates, many Web masters use…
WordPress blogging software can be installed in the root directory of your website or in a subdirectory on the site. When WordPress is in the root directory, it can be accessed directly by typing…
Wordpress template files do not always have the spacing you'd like to see on the site. Adding additional lines into the WordPress document can elongate the site, giving it the type of display you'd…
Thesis is a theme framework for the WordPress content management system; it uses child themes for customizing templates and building websites. By default, a navbar (navigation menu) height is not…
It's possible to redirect a WordPress post to a new post while keeping the same permalink, without having to access your server and create a 301 redirect rule. To keep the same permalink for the new…
The meta verify V1 script is used to verify a Google sitemap. If you are using the Thesis framework theme for WordPress, you can easily remove this script in the Thesis options panel. Be aware that if…
WordPress is a content management system that allows you to create your own blogs and webpages on the Internet. You can download and install plugins for your WordPress blog that can give your site…
Thematic is a WordPress theme that bids itself as "the ultimate in SEO-ready themes." It offers tools to make sure your blog is optimized for search engine crawling and a basic white layout that…
As competing technologies and platforms emerge, users are often forced to choose one over another. But if you have accounts with the social media platforms Tumblr and WordPress, you can use a handy…
Internet Explorer 8 supports embedded Adobe Flash files, which have the SWF extension. You must use the object tag to embed an SWF in an HTML page for IE8. You can set the movie to play automatically…
WordPress is a website platform that allows you to create your own blog and post articles on the Internet. Thesis is a premium theme that you can purchase and install on your WordPress blog. This…
The web host GoDaddy lets you install many applications and content management systems on your hosting account. Wordpress is a common blog engine and CMS. You can manually install it on your GoDaddy…
"Your Own URL Shortener" ("YOURLS") is a free PHP tool you can install on your website to create your own shortened links, similar to the popular, tinyurl.com or bit.ly. If your website is MySite.com,…
WPMU is an extension of the popular Wordpress software that powers more than 50 million blogs worldwide. Using WPMU, now referred to as "Multisite Support," users are able to create websites where…
Internet spammers don't just target email accounts. They also target blogs, including blogs hosted by WordPress. To stop it, WordPress users should utilize a variety of anti-spam features, such as…
CPanel is a website and server management system used by a number of web hosting companies, including BlueHost. CPanel gives you access to your databases and server files. WordPress page templates are…
Upload an XML file template to your WordPress account to import the content of a different blog, regardless of whether you created it using WordPress, into your WordPress account. When you upload an…
In its default installation, cPanel comes with the MySQL database program. This organizes back-end site data into tables, allowing for efficient processing and loading for users. You can search MySQL…
The latest version of WordPress has integrated the WordPress MU ability to create many different blogs on subdomains through a single WordPress installation. You can control a network of subdomains…
If you want to make your WordPress blog post appear like an article, with multiple pages for a single post, you can use a plugin that introduces post level pagination. This type of plugin splits your…
Prior to an update of your WordPress blog, WordPress prompts you to back-up the blog in the event of a fatal error during the upgrade process. Each time you back-up the blog, which involves exporting…
One advantage of using BlueHost to build and host a temporary WordPress site is that BlueHost's "SimpleScripts" allows for instant installation of WordPress onto any of your hosted domains. After you…
The WordPress installation process is a straightforward process even when you aren't using a Web host who offers a simple one-click installation. The only thing you need to do during the installation…
WordPress is a popular, free, web-based blog-publishing application. Its plugin architecture allows virtually unhindered expansion of its platform. Because it is an open-source project built on other…
Webmasters often make references to books or other products on their web pages. In the event that they wish to monetize these references with links or images, they must go through the repetitive task…
Although the blogging platform WordPress gives you the option of using a free blog on its server, several advantages -- namely, using the blog with your own domain name -- exist for hosting it…
One disadvantage of using the free hosting WordPress offers for bloggers is that your blog address is myblogaddress.wordpress.com, rather than myblogaddress.com. No matter the reason you want to…
If you're moving to a new blogging platform or just want a backup of your WordPress content for safekeeping, you can use WordPress's "Export" feature to save an XML feed file of your blog's content to…
WordPress is a free blogging script that some Web hosts and hosting software provide with an expedited installation script. Generally, such scripts will install WordPress to a new database, with a new…
Wordpress blogs use an open-source, popular code that makes it a target for hackers who seek to gain entry into your blogs for their own purposes. If you do not take steps to secure your Wordpress…
WordPress is an open-source blog and website creation tool that offers a Web template system and widgets you can use to customize your blog. WordPress version 2.9 was released in 2009, and offered the…
WordPress 2.9 is an open-source blogging platform that supports templates and plugins, and gives users a wide variety of customization options for creating a unique website. When customizing your…
The WordPress dashboard post editor lets you edit HTML links and store the changes in the MySQL database. All edits done in the WordPress dashboard are saved to the MySQL database. The MySQL database…
One of the behind-the-scenes structures organizing a website is the MySQL database. This manages the tables and functions directing traffic and integrating plugins. Over time it may get fragmented and…
Ease of installation and automatic upgrades are two reasons why WordPress is a popular choice for websites and blogs. The installation process is nearly turnkey, requiring little more than setting up…
The blogging software WordPress supports plugins by default. Some plugins require theme integration to display properly to visitors, but nearly all plugins will work with any theme. WordPress plugins…
Gravatar is an online service that allows you to upload an image, or "avatar", connected to your email address. On supported sites, when you blog or comment on an article or blog, your Gravatar image…
WordPress is a service that provides free blogs to the public. Its open source blog tool also provides plug-ins and themes for websites. In December 2009, WordPress 2.9 was released to the public.…
In order to wipe a database clean of WordPress -- or any content, for that matter -- there are two steps that you have to take: first, you have to wipe the database itself, then you have to clean out…
Among the advantages of hosting your blog or website on BlueHost is that company's partnership with SimpleScripts, as a result of which WordPress is automatically installed on every BlueHost-hosted…
BuddyPress is "social networking in a box," as it allows you to create your own Facebook-like network with a few clicks. You can have your own Avatar, or small picture, that appears on all of your…
The Thesis theme is a flexible Wordpress template that offers bloggers a fast solution to creating a professional, unique website appearance. Wordpress divides the many different structures the theme,…
WordPress is a blogging platform that allows you to create your own blogs and websites online. You can change the way your blog looks by installing a WordPress theme. While you can't directly copy the…
WordPress is a free, Web-based program that simplifies the process of creating your own personal website or blog with built-in templates, and includes the option to customize the site's appearance…
When you find something interesting on the Web, your natural reaction might be to create a link on your website to show that site to your readers. However, internal links are also potentially…
The config.php, or wp-config.php in the case of WordPress sites, controls the database access for your website. The log-in password and user name are available for anyone to read and for hackers to…
TechSmith's Camtasia Studio is a software application that you can use to record screen captures and audio and then turn your recording into a video. Videos made with Camtasia are often used as…
Manually transferring content from one website to another can be a time-consuming process and one that is prone to errors. Fortunately, most Web servers have built-in features that allow you to import…
The WordPress Media Library shows you all the media you have uploaded, such as images. You can edit the image title, size or even crop or resize the image from within the Media Library, but you cannot…
Thesis is a premium theme for the WordPress blogging platform. Like other themes, Thesis takes advantage of the WordPress core. One basic function of the WordPress core is the page. As with blog…
A "Gravatar," short for "globally recognized avatar," is a thumbnail image and link representing yourself that shows when you post a story or comment to a compatible website. A Gravatar allows you to…
Bloggers who use the WordPress blog platform have the option to set their blog URL to anything they want, even if the URL does not match the folder the blog is installed in on the Web server. Editing…
WordPress provides you with a dashboard utility that lets you edit the layout and images on your blog. You can edit the blog's logo in the "header.php" file. You must link the new logo to the…
WordPress blogs use MySQL as a back-end database server. WordPress provides you with a backup plug-in, so you can back up your entire database and its content to a file. You use this backup to restore…
Your WordPress blogging script is installed to a folder on your Web server; typically, it is the root directory for your domain or possibly a separate sub-domain. You can add other files and folders…
WordPress is a content-management system that allows you to create your own blogs and Web pages online. Thesis is a premium template that you must purchase for your WordPress blog that includes a…
WordPress allows you to create HTML permalinks, which are links that provide a static navigation page. A static navigation page does not change, so permalinks usually consist of an "About" page and a…
WordPress is an open source content management system used for creating blogs and websites. The platform is popular because of its availability and ease of use. WordPress contains a powerful CMS…
WordPress's post editor lets you insert any type of link, so readers can click the link and view an image, Web page or a PDF file. You must provide a link to the PDF file in the editor to allow users…
The website Gravatar provides globally recognized avatars, known as Gravatars. Gravatars work with many blogs and websites including Polldaddy, VideoPress and all WordPress websites. If you wish to…
WordPress is a PHP and MySQL-based blog tool and publishing platform that is installed on websites to facilitate content creation. When you install WordPress, you can create manual and scheduled…
A WordPress WXR file is a backup of your WordPress site that that include your posts, pages, comments, categories, navigation menus, custom fields and tags. Creating a WXR file is necessary if you are…
Include a graph in your WordPress blog by using the image-link tool in the administration dashboard. You must upload the graph image to a free image-hosting website. Your users can click the image to…
Flash Player can be embedded into HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) documents. Use of Flash Player requires inputting a special embed code in the HTML document and allowing the browser to parse and…
Flash content is served from ".swf" files that must be embedded into the HTML code sent to a browser. The embed code requires the path to the SWF file on the server. Without this information, the…
WordPress uses MySQL databases for storing post, page and blog data for each WordPress blog. While it is a common practice to set up a separate database for each WordPress installation, you can use…
Changing domain names for a WordPress blog is a lot like moving to a new house. Everything at the old domain address has to be packed, and the new address has to be set up, before you can move…
As of May 2011, more than 4 million websites used WordPress, a simple content-management system that powers blog-style websites. WordPress has many appealing features for novice web designers, like…
The Wordpress blogging platform utilizes a visual editor for blog posting. The visual editor is similar to menus used by word processors, containing standard formatting options available in a post.…
Avatars are the small pictures that appear on blogs that identify blog participants. Avatars can be real photographs of blog contributors or cartoon depictions of them. Avatars are fun and offer a…
WordPress Themes feature built-in widgets for displaying advertising on your blog. There is also an excellent WordPress Plugin, WP125, which will not only create ads on your blog but also help you…
Installing WordPress on a computer using the Ubuntu operating system is not exactly a straightforward process, but it can be done by downloading a few prerequisite programs. Ubuntu is open-source…
When you display an image thumbnail in a WordPress post, WordPress links the thumbnail to the full-sized version of the image. When a reader clicks the image, the larger version of the image appears…
WordPress has built-in support for Gravatar, a service that allows a person to upload an image and display it next to her name each time she leaves a comment on a post. Many frequent blog commenters…
Wordpress plugins expand and extend basic Wordpress features. Plugins are small pieces of PHP code that can perform many different functions, such as adding a spam filter or tracking your Web traffic.…
When you transfer your WordPress blog or website from one host to another, any links that you created to your previous posts will be broken. Because WordPress exports and imports your blog content…
Videos are an eye-catching, dynamic way to get your readers' attention. WordPress does support the MP4 file format for embedded videos. If you have WordPress installed on your own web host then you…
One of the advantages of the WordPress blogging platform is the flexibility of the layouts. WordPress themes and templates provide infinite variety and you can place features and elements just about…
Static websites are publications that do not generally have the capability of being added to by the public through comments. They are normally fixed in terms of content, a content tightly controlled…
As you delete content, such as old posts and spam comments, from your WordPress website, it creates empty space in the database that runs on the server hosting the site. This empty space is called…
With its easy installation and unlimited opportunities to customize the layouts, WordPress is one of the most functional types of blog site applications and an excellent way to host and install your…
ShockWave Flash video files can be embedded within WordPress blog entries, pages or the sidebar using easily configured plug-ins. The WordPress plug-in gallery features three plug-ins that provide the…
WordPress.org boasts that its personal publishing platform is very quick and easy to install, providing users with their "Famous 5-Minute Install" guide. Much of the WordPress install is very simple…
Because the content that appears on your WordPress website actually "lives" on your domain server as a MySQL database file---and not as a physical part of your website design---you can easily remove…
Movable Type and WordPress are both Web-based blogging platforms, available to users who host their blogs on either service's site for free on their own domains. Although several differences in form…
When you create a new blog post in WordPress, that post is added to a database that contains all of the content of your website including your posts, pages, categories, tags, and readers' comments.…
WordPress is a blog-hosting platform you can use as a free version, on WordPress' server, or in conjunction with your own personal Web space. In many instances, using WordPress on your own website…
WordPress.org is the self-hosted edition of the WordPress.com blogging platform. By hosting your own blog using the WordPress system, you have greater control over the layout, system, and add-ons on…
WordPress contains its own import and export tools to make migrating your WordPress blog from one Web host to another a fast and relatively painless process. The same process applies whether you are…
The WordPress program provides a template-driven user interface that allows you to display information to users and gather information from users. It also provides a mechanism to store and retrieve…
If you change the URL, domain or subdomain of your website that WordPress is installed to, you will have to manually change the domain. After the actual domain change has been made, you will not be…
WordPress is a popular blogging platforms on the Internet. It hosts both free blogs on its WordPress.com server and offers downloadable software to power users' self-hosted blogs. If you use hosting…
Many of the more than 200 million blogs powered by the WordPress platform have identical URL schemes, since the WordPress installation file used by these blogs offers no simple way of customizing the…
Six Apart, makers of the MovableType blogging platform, did not design their platform with exporting in mind. Although you can export your information, it's dumped into a giant text file that isn't…
WordPress is a content management system commonly associated with blogs. It offers both backup and restore functions that allow a user to keep accurate records of information that passes through the…
phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in the Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) scripting language, which is intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web. Most people find it…
You can create columns in Wordpress using HTML and CSS code. You can use Wordpress to create a blog sharing information of your choice. You can post daily bytes of information, add photos and accept…
WordPress is an open source personal publishing platform used on millions of sites. Adding WordPress to your site can help you to create a functioning and attractive website in very little time and…
WordPress, as of the date of publication, is the most popular self-hosted blogging platform in the world. Much of this popularity is due to the fact that WordPress is highly customizable. You can…
There are two different incarnations of the popular WordPress blogging platform. WordPress.com offers free blogging service. WordPress.org offers the software necessary to install the platform on your…
While often quicker and easier to set up your a WordPress blog on WordPress.com, you avert limitations by setting up a website separately. With the setup on Wordpress, you are unable to install custom…
WordPress is a content management system that allows users to organize text, photos and other media on their website easily and efficiently. Unlike pages that are built with HTML or CSS, WordPress has…
If you use the content managing script WordPress to maintain your website or blog and have many posts or pages that contain links, you may want a utility that allows you to find broken links or those…
Media Temple is a very large web hosting website that caters to a diverse client base. If you're familiar with its grid-service (gs) web hosting, you'll know that one of its features is the easy…
WordPress categories organize your posts into specific sections and display in the menu or sidebar depending on the type of theme you are using. These sections help your visitor navigate your website.…
The WordPress configuration file, named "wp-config.php," holds the information your blog needs to access the database that powers your blog. The blogging platform's automatic installation options…
Blogging platform WordPress doesn't just handle blogs. It can create basic websites without a blog, and it can even serve as an e-commerce website with the proper tools. One of the tools needed is a…
WordPress is an open source blog tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. With WordPress, you can create blogs and install various plug-ins, among other things. Plug-ins let you do…
A Gravatar, or "globally recognized avatar," is an avatar (digital image) that helps you build an online identity. An image associated with your email address displays whenever you communicate in a…
An avatar is a character, image or logo that portrays who you are on the Web. The Gravatar website works hand-in-hand with avatars by extending their functionality. It allows people to identity you…
Camtasia Theater software lets you create videos and tutorials for entertainment and education purposes. The completed videos can be embedded into your WordPress theme or blog, where users can comment…
When you install a self-hosted version of the WordPress blogging platform, your default username is "admin." Additional users that you approve as authors or commenters pick their own usernames. While…
WordPress allows you to choose a business theme for your website using the admin area, or control panel. There are many ready-to-use themes in categories such as business, entertainment and nature…
When you leave a comment on a WordPress blog, the blog displays a picture of a person's outline next to the comment. If you find yourself commenting on blogs frequently, you might prefer to select a…
GoDaddy can automatically set up various scripts and applications for you via the GoDaddy Account Manager. If you want to restart a service such as WordPress, however, then you must remove it manually…
WordPress is a content management system that allows users to import or create their own website themes. Flexx is one such theme, and it is designed to give users more versatility over their websites.…
The Wordpress codex is the template and setup you use when you install a WordPress blog on your website. The codex provides you with a template that is used to display your blog. The WordPress admin…
Wordpress, as a website platform or blogging device, can be very powerful. It allows countless customization options for those who know how to read and write CSS and HTML. However, those lines of code…
The Windows Vista operating system was the first version of Windows to include the "sidebar" application functionality. This was a toolbar that resided on the side of the desktop and contained…
WordPress is an enhanced blogging tool that enables you to build and publish your website. With a Web host account, you have the ability to automatically install the WordPress database and manage your…
A date stamp on your WordPress blog displays the month, day and year of the information that you publish on your post. Some of the themes that make up your pages automatically include this stamp, but…
WordPress is a popular blog script and content management system that is available for free. People who create blog entries on WordPress can allow visitors to comment on their posts. If you manage a…
WordPress is a host for blogs and other types of websites. WordPress plugins add additional features to a basic WordPress installation. You can add photo galleries, search engine optimization…
WordPress is a content management system primarily designed for blogs. WordPress utilizes the PHP Web scripting language and database systems to manage the design and content of the website or blog.…
Gravatar---short for "globally recognized avatar"---is a type of Internet avatar that appears in the comments section of any site that supports the Gravatar plug-in. When users leave a comment on a…
Adding columns to a Wordpress page is a very simple task. You don't need to be an expert web designer to this. A few lines of HTML and CSS are all you need to create columns in Wordpress.
WordPress site owners often enjoy embedding videos onto their websites as an added blog feature. The WordPress platform creators understand that videos are an important part of blogging and they have…
There is no automated service in Adobe Contribute for submitting blog content to a WordPress blog, but it's possible. Note, however, that you must be hosting the WordPress blog on your own server. You…
There are two different versions of WordPress: the freely hosted WordPress.com blog and the blog-authoring software available to independently hosted blogs (WordPress.org). The variety of themes is…
WordPress is a blog publishing application with the option to comment on other blogs. When you comment on another person's blog, an avatar is left that represents you. This avatar can be anything you…
Many people who use Wordpress blogs are fond of modifying the sidebars. They're the perfect place to add links and advertising. Here are some tips.
One of the wonderful things about using a Wordpress (or Blogger) blog is that you can change the appearance of the blog at the push of a button. There are many options in appearance for the blogs…
WordPress is an independent blog program that offers its users several distinct customization features. Bloggers who have a web hosting account with Pair.com know that Pair Networks is a preferred…
Bloggers who use WordPress software on their own server can easily monetize their blogs by adding Google AdSense or working with a partner like Amazon. Amazon offers a variety of widgets that bloggers…
WordPress feeds vary depending on whether you're using the free version or the full version of WordPress. RSS, "Really Simple Syndication" is known as a "Feed." Feeds are a tool useful for saving or…
WordPress is a very popular standalone blog software for many different reasons. In addition to being free, versatile and extremely user-friendly, WordPress is among the most stable of the available…
A WordPress blog can be more interesting and interactive if you add an online forum. XDForum is a free online forum plug-in designed for the WordPress blog that is available on the Internet. You don't…
Ready to change the way your WordPress blog looks? Here's how to change your WordPress template.
Locating a cool new theme in WordPress can be one of the easiest tasks that you will ever encounter. Now, getting that theme to a usable state can be a very complicated task indeed. The following…
If you have a WordPress blog the standard template may seem a bit dated. Update the look of your blog by following these simple steps to find new WordPress templates.