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How to Add Social Icons to Your Blog with the Social Icons Widget Plugin for WordPress

Erica — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:19:19 +0000

I’m asked a lot to add social icons to people’s blogs. I don’t mind doing this at all, and I love when people use custom icons that reflect their personality. But, for those who want a simple set of square icons it really can’t get any easier than using the Social Icons Widget plugin for [...]

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How to customize the Read More or more-tag in WordPress

Erica — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:53:46 +0000

If you’re using the more tag to customize the length of post excerpts shown on your front page you can also customize that default Read More or Continue Reading text that people click to open the full post! This can be used to your advantage! Grab people’s attention with a catchy link and make them [...]

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How to Paginate WordPress Posts

Erica — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:08:05 +0000

You’re likely familiar with the <!- – more – -> tag which allows you to decide where to break a post and insert a “read more” link on the front page of your blog, but did you know there’s also a <!- – nextpage – -> tag you can use to paginate long posts? If [...]

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Firebug Tutorial – How to modify your blog design

Erica — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:15:24 +0000

I’m asked a couple times a week how I find the part of my CSS file that needs changed… I always answer, with Firebug. The next question of course is what’s Firebug? And then, How do I use it? Here’s the Firebug download page. You can also use your Firefox Add-ons menu under the Tools [...]

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Using FileZilla FTP to Access Your Site

Erica — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:32:39 +0000

As the hosting provider for many of my design clients, and many other site owners, I’m asked a lot about accessing a site’s files. While some hosts offer cpanel access, our Rackspace hosting does not, and the only way to view/edit files hosted on our servers is via FTP. Before you think FTP is only [...]

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How to Create a Favicon for your Site

Erica — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:31:25 +0000

A favicon, or .ico, is a small icon image file used for Favorites, Bookmarks, and URL icons. When you look in your browser’s url bar you should see a tiny icon. Most people don’t know how to customize theirs, so they have either a blank white icon, a default from their theme, or even from [...]

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Google Plus One 1+ Button Tutorial for Your Blog

Erica — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:32:27 +0000

Benefits of the Google Plus One 1+ Button For SEO purposes I think that the Google Plus One button will be beneficial for website owners and bloggers – especially bloggers who have some built in community that will naturally participate in the clicking of buttons and things. If you tend to get a fair amount [...]

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Tips for Moving Electronic Goods Safely

Erica — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:39:26 +0000

Guest Post by Jeremy Heyes Electronic goods need to be handled with extra care and caution while moving. The packing supplies used for wrapping up electronic and fragile goods are also different. There is no dearth of removalists, who would shoulder the responsibility of transporting your electronic goods to your new home or office. These [...]

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Getting Rid of a Facebook Virus

Erica — Fri, 06 May 2011 16:05:45 +0000

Facebook viruses are becoming more and more popular, and harder to spot. The links for them look very enticing, especially for teens, and before you know it, your computer is bugged. If you’ve contracted a virus from activities on Facebook, Ileane has a fabulous tutorial on getting rid of Facebook viruses! You get a Facebook [...]

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Manual WordPress Update via FTP

Erica — Tue, 03 May 2011 19:19:28 +0000

Some hosts will have you believe that it’s a security risk to use the automatic update in WordPress, they’ll tell you that it takes too much resources to download a less than 3MB file. They’ll tell you kittens will be harmed if you try to unzip files on-the-fly. Pah and double pah! They’re just cheap [...]

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