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You've made the switch to Google Apps for Email and you'd like to set it up on your Mac. If you have multiple devices connecting to that email, you're probably better off with IMAP.
Shortcodes independent of the WordPress theme? With a little button to put the code into your post area? Whoa.
ThemeForest has a collection of premium WordPress themes that's hard to beat.
Now that you understand the basic components of a blog page you're ready to choose a theme. There is no right or wrong choice; there are only choices that give your website the look and functionality you want—and ones that don't.
WordPress.com or WordPress.org? Simply put, with wordpress.com, you're renting, with wordpress.org you own.
You're probably familiar with most of these terms, but since we're just getting started with WordPress, I thought a glossary might be a helpful reference.
Pages, posts, and categories—these are the basic building blocks of your blog. Once you understand them, everything else pretty much falls into place.
If you're just getting started with WordPress, one of the trickiest decisions to make is what theme you want to use.
If you’re new to blogging, you may feel overwhelmed by the options, decisions, and learning curve involved. Here's the scoop.
So you want that widget on the home page, but not on any other pages? Done. The Widget Logic plugin lets you choose where you want what when.
I had used the Genesis Featured Page in a widget, but then I realized it really needed to be a Featured Post. "Aha, what do we have here in the widget area? Genesis Featured Posts!" Lucky me.
I've been through Contact Form 7, I've been a longtime fan of cforms, but there was one feature none of those had that I've been holding out for: conditional form fields. Enter Gravity Forms.
This plugin lets you edit the three areas in any Genesis theme: the post-info (byline), the post-meta, and the footer area. Normally, you'd have to get into the PHP files, find the right spot to edit what you're looking to do, save, upload, check, oops, edit, save, upload, check. Now it's all in the WordPress admin: click, save, done.
On just about every WordPress admin page, you can customize which editing area, widgets, and features are visible on the page.
Can't find that second row of formatting buttons in your WordPress post editing area?