WordPress menus allow you to navigate your website better. You can have more than one menu and those menus can be placed in different locations. WordPress makes all of this customizable. The menu locations are dictated by your theme and are beyond the scope of this discussion, but you can find the locations that are […]
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When you create a WordPress post you have the option to assign categories and tags to that post. Categories are hierarchical groupings, whereas, tags are not hierarchical. In other words, your categories can have parent categories and children categories (or subcategories). This helps to organize your content for menus and other hierarchical charts/pages. This allows
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One of my clients complained that her users were contacting her quite often because they had forgotten their username. Of course, the username is listed in the email if you click on ‘forgot password’, but many novice users don’t know that or don’t think to click there to find their username. I figured that should
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Well, that’s 8 hours of my life I can’t get back. But, I learned a lot! My WordPress website using the s2Member plugin was supposed to redirect my subscribers to the Welcome Page that I had set up AND it was supposed to hide the wp-admin screens from them. But, every time I logged in,
Five of my WordPress clients site’s were hacked last weekend. Their sites had to be taken down until I could fix the security breach. Most of these clients were not being negligent and ignoring their core, theme and plugin updates, they were checking frequently in the WordPress dashboard and making the updates. The problem was
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I love the SyntaxHighlighter plugin which allows me to showcase my code. I also love the options available, especially the one I use for highlighting certain lines of the code. Today I was writing a post and wanted to highlight a range of lines – lines 3 through 7. I assumed I could just use
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I finally got shipping on WooCommerce set up for one of my clients. It was rather difficult to figure out how to make it work exactly. I know that WooCommerce offers a table rate shipping extension, but I, nor my client, wanted to invest $200 in a plugin that we weren’t sure would work for
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I was asked by two people yesterday this question: “What’s the best way to build my website?” One had started on Wix and was running into limitations and was thinking about WordPress.com. The other was on Weebly and having some complications. It’s a very good question. I’ll give you MY opinion. Wix.com, Weebly.com, SquareSpace.com and
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Several years ago, every website I built was built in symfony. This was back in the symfony 1.0 and 1.5 days. I loved symfony. After building sites in homegrown PHP, trying out Joomla! and Drupal, symfony was a breath of fresh air and allowed me to build sites VERY quickly. There was only one small
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I am switching all my sites AND my clients sites from the Shareaholic plugin to the Monarch Social Sharing plugin. I REALLY liked Shareaholic. I loved the way it looked, the way it worked… I really loved most everything about it. Until I found out they were cheating me and every other user of their
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