Help for all kinds of software and online challenges: email, website, hosting, domains, WordPress, etc. If you can’t find it, try the search button.
When setting up websites for new businesses, I get this question extremely often. But a bigger, scarier question is: does it matter?
Here's a quick example of how to set up the WordPress plugin uBillboard and put a slideshow into a page.
I needed a bunch of photos resized to 450 pixels high, optimized for the web and I have lots of them. Even Photoshop Elements can handle this.
It's that time again and this time, I just couldn't wait. We switched Likoma to WOO Canvas (Commerce) today! Woot for WOO!
Using a StudioPress theme, we're creating something of a custom portfolio page by integrating content, custom fields, and featured images.
A client of mine had three websites hosted at BlueHost. One day they were all down. She called BlueHost and they said, "Sorry, due to a hardware failure, all of your files are gone." Forever, irretrievable, vanished, gonzo, later, sayonara, oh, yeah, sorry. Ouch.
So your site doesn't look quite like you wanted on your iPhone. This article explains some of the options to transform your WordPress site into a mobile-friendly site.
There are many options when adding photos to a site. Use a portfolio template (e.g. Genesis Portfolio) that comes with the theme, use WordPress's own Gallery function, or add images manually so we have more control over where they're placed and how they look.
We wanted a different header image on certain pages. Hmm.
You have your Google Apps account and you want to jump on the Google+ bandwagon. Excellent idea. Yeah, but we can't. Yet.
Creating columns in WordPress (or any online environment) is a beastly affair at best. CSS, DIV classes, yuck-ee-de-buck-ee. The magnificent Styles with Shortcodes Plugin for WordPress to the rescue.
Site running, but no posts? In "Posts" in WordPress is it empty? In PHP MyAdmin (the SQL database admin where all of the content lives), do you get an error when at the wp_posts table? It might be as simple as repairing the database.
WOO themes use a theme framework and that makes it easy to update. Who cares about easy to update? You do. Why do you care? Because it makes it easier to fix security breaches like this one with a single click.
Responsive Design. What does it mean? In my non-techy world, that the design (of the website) adapts to the screen it's on. So that if you have a monster widescreen, an iPhone or a laptop, the screen adjusts accordingly.
What are post formats and why will you love them? Posts, asides, photos, audio, video, status, etc.. Holy moly.