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… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Wordpress Tutorials
How to customize the Read More or more-tag in WordPress
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… Continue Reading
How to Paginate WordPress Posts
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… Continue Reading
Google Plus One 1+ Button Tutorial for Your Blog
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… Continue Reading
Manual WordPress Update via FTP
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… Continue Reading
Using Pretty Link Pro to Shorten and Cloak Affiliate Links
Affiliate marketers know, those money-making links can be half a mile long! Not only are they cumbersome, they’re unprofessional looking. Some marketers even worry about having their links hacked and replaced with someone else’s affiliate ID… The solution for this is a $37 premium plugin for WordPress called Pretty Link Pro. Yes, there is a… Continue Reading