Have you been to the bloggy giveaways carnival this week? It ends tonight! Go! Quickly! And, if you’re ready to give away a present, this here is a great tool to ‘draw’ a nearly-random number: Like drawing numbers from a hat, without the hat. How very geeky of you!
Why You Should NEVER Use the Theme Editor
The easiest way to really screw up your blog is to make changes in the Theme Editor. They are permanent, and they are ‘uploaded’ immediately to the internet. So there is no “undo” button. If you want to change the font, colors, width of a column, etc, you can do this on your own computer, […]
Mandatory Upgrade
Ok – don’t shoot the messenger! THEY said “Mandatory Upgrade”. I would never, knowing you, ever, remotely come close, to being that bossy with y’all. Okay, maybe I would. And this is probably one of those rare (ahem) times. WordPress 2.6.2 is considered a “Mandatory Upgrade” for a lot of geekaleze reasons. But at the […]
How to remove the generic title of your blog…
When you install your wordpress blog, the only things it asks you for is your blog name and your email address. So you enter them. Then you upload the fancy new “clothes” that you’ve just had designed for you and your blog title, appears in the header. You do what seems the simplest fix and […]
Finding and Using a Gravatar
Is your theme gravatar-enabled? If it is, you’ll see a small image in each comment. Gravatars are images that represent your online presence anywhere on the internet. Gravatar stands for Globally Recognized Avatars. To find your personal avatar, you can draw your own or find some here or here. Then go to gravatar.com and upload […]
Find and Replace is a Gift from God…
Seriously. You know it’s true. How much time to we save when we complete a find and replace? Alot. And a lot of hassles and headaches too. I know of so many people who, after blogging for many months, or years even, decided that they were going to stop using their children’s real names. And […]
WordPress.com vs WordPress.org
by Heather Jacobson I do quite a few installations for WordPress.com blogs and often times, I’ve noticed that they pay for both domain mapping and the custom CSS ability. That amount adds up to $30 a year (roughly) and for that they can basically make it LOOK like their site is on it’s own domain […]
FWD The quick and dirty way to back up WordPress
The Professor is IN, y’all. I can’t really ‘get’ something until i understand the general concept. So here ’tis for the upgrade. All of this, is said in way more words here. First – there are 2 parts of your blog that need backing up. 1 – WordPress stuff (this is anything that you ADD […]