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.
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.
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 [...]
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.
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.
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
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 [...]
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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