July 8, 2009
One of the more frustrating things about blogging with WordPress is finding a plugin you think will do just what you need... only to find that it doesn't work. When things don't behave like you expect them to, it can be hard to know just where to start trouble-shooting. So here are some suggestions: Is the plugin uploaded to the right place? If you uploaded via FTP (rather than installing... Read more
April 6, 2009
So you've found a theme you like, and added it to your WordPress installation, but when you go to your dashboard to activate it, it's not there. The most likely cause of this is that the theme hasn't been uploaded exactly correctly, and therefore WP can't see it. Here's how to check: Open up your FTP client. Navigate on the server side to wp-content/themes. Do you see the theme folder... Read more