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WordPress Tutorial: Cleaning Up Microsoft Word Formatting

If you paste content from Microsoft Word (or any formatted content) directly into the editing area of the WordPress backend, chances are a bunch of formatting code will come with it. Here’s a video to help clean up the mess.

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WordPress Tutorial: Simple Image Gallery with Captions

We wanted to get some images into WordPress side by side and with captions, but also in categories on the same page.

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WordPress Tutorial: Image Captions and Text Alignment

Captions for images are tricky enough, then add text alignment (wrapping) and CSS and it’s a recipe for disaster. Using the “Image Caption” plugin for WordPress and the simple alignment tool in WordPress, I’ll walk through aligning images, their captions, and the surrounding text.

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Using you@yourdomain.com in Yahoo

You can use your Yahoo (or Gmail etc.) account to get your you@yourdomain.com email. This saves you the hassle of POP and SMTP settings, figuring out how to send email from your hotel room or a wireless Internet cafe, and gives you a solid email program and reliable service. What’s not to like? Here’s a [...]

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Hover-over pop-up text, links, and anchors

A client wanted a glossary on her site so that keywords would link to more description of those words. She wanted some “bubble” hover over/pop-up text and/or a link to a full definition at a glossary page.

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Post Icons

This plugin allows you to assign a certain image to a post (much category icons does) and let’s you resize it, give it some CSS formatting, etc.

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Insert Image in PHP List

The new version of PHP List (2.10.4) makes it easier to embed an image into your newsletter/mass mailing. Here’s a video that walks through the process. Insert Image in PHP List

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Extended Profile

For months, I’ve been wanting to use the Extended Profile data (from the userextra plugin, comments) to show a list of members on a post/page. I wanted more than just Firstname Lastname, Email, ICQ, etc. I wanted Address, City, Favorite Vegetable, whatever. After finding this code and then this bit of PHP to pull the [...]

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Simple Page Edit in WordPress

Here’s a video created for BNI Embarcadero that walks through basic editing of a page. WordPress Tutorial Video: Simple Page Edit in WordPress

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