Businesspundit's Best Business Blogs
If you're looking for a little inspiration as to what blogging can do for your business, Businesspundit's list of the 50 best business blogs of 2008 has penty of interesting reading for you. Given recent events, it's probably unsurprising that they're pretty heavy on the financial sector, but there's plenty more to read whatever your own business and interests might be.... Read more
Adding images & galleries to your posts
Once upon a time, if you wanted to add a picture to a blog post, you had to upload the image file via FTP and then write a whole bunch of HTML and CSS to make it appear in your post just the way you wanted it to. But no more. WordPress lets you easily embed pictures in posts, and change how they appear: if you want clickable thumbnails or to make the text flow nicely around the image, all that... Read more
What's a pingback?
One of the really nice things about how WordPress handles discussion of your blog posts, is the ability to take the conversation beyond just your own blog. Pingbacks mean that you can track who's talking about you on their own blogs, automatically:Sharon writes a blog postTracey writes a blog post linking to Sharon's postthe blog software leaves a link ("pingback") to Tracey's post automatically... Read more
Better recent comments
"Recent comments" are an essential addition to the sidebar of just about every blog. They tell your visitors that they're important, and I know from experience that many people will come back to your blog to read new comments, even if there are no new posts. If you're blogging for business, they tell your customers that you trust and respect them enough to let them leave feedback right there on... Read more
How do I get my new theme onto my blog?
So you have your shiny new WordPress install. You have your lovely theme you've downloaded or had made for you. How do you get the theme onto your blog? The least you need to know If you already know what FTP is, then this is all you need to do: download the theme you want to use unzip the theme to your computer upload the unzipped theme via FTP to your wp-content/themes directory from your... Read more
Ever wish you hadn't edited a post?
A cool but easy-to-miss feature in Wordpress 2.6 and above is post revisions. If you've edited a post but wish you hadn't, you have an automatically-generated series of previous versions saved in WordPress, which you can roll back to at the click of a button. In WP2.6.x the Post Revisions channel is minimised at the bottom of the edit page. In WP2.7 by default, it's right there in the middle... Read more
WordPress 2.6.5 released
WordPress have released version 2.6.5 today. This release fixes a security issue and three other small problems. You can download the newest version from WordPress: my blogsprogs need not worry, they will be upgraded tonight. And for the record, 2.6.5 is the version that follows 2.6.3: there is no 2.6.4, as that was the number attached to a fake release which was doing the rounds a couple of... Read more
Why doesn't my WordPress theme show up in the preview panel?
If your theme isn't showing up in your WP admin section *at all*, then this post is what you're looking for. Just a quickie for anyone who makes their own WP themes I've spent an hour picking my way through forum posts, trying to find out why my theme doesn't preview through the Dashboard > Design page. It works fine, as you can see, but preview is just a blank white page. Turns out... Read more
Should I use WordPress to create a website?
If you're wondering whether you should use WordPress to create a website, the website Should I Use WordPress to Create a Website? may have the answer for you.... Read more
Changing your WordPress posting name
If you've run a default installation of WordPress, you probably have a note at the bottom of your posts saying "Posted by Admin...." and the date. I'm not called Admin, and I don't know anyone else who is, so I'd change it. Here's what you need to do: From the WP dashboard, click on "users". Click on the user name you want to change, "admin" in this case. Add the name you want to post under to... Read more
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