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Using the Internet Explorer Browser with WordPress
Internet Explorer (IE) is by far one of the most popular browsers because it’s part and parcel of all Microsoft Windows operating systems. Over the years, IE has struggled with its reputation of not keeping [more…]
Using the Mozilla Firefox Browser with WordPress
Firefox is the second most popular web browser and has emerged over the years as a solid Internet Explorer (IE) competitor. WordPress Designers and developers tend to prefer Firefox over IE because [more…]
Understanding Cross-Browser Compatibility When Developing WordPress Websites
Cross-browser compatibility is the practice of testing designs across all major browser systems and is important in WordPress web design because you don’t just design websites for yourself, but for an [more…]
Free FTP Programs to Upload and Download WordPress Files
You use File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to perform various tasks, such as uploading and downloading WordPress files, editing WordPress files, and changing WordPress file permissions. The ability to use FTP [more…]
How to Use the WordPress Text Widget
The WordPress Text widget allows you to add text and HTML code into widget areas without editing the theme’s template files. The Text widget is the jack-of-all-trades widget; it allows you to include several [more…]
How to Add the WordPress RSS Widget
The WordPress RSS widget allows you to pull headlines through aggregation from almost any Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed, including recent headlines from your other WordPress blogs or sites and headlines [more…]
How to Enhance Websites with WordPress Widgets
WordPress widgets are built-in tools that enable you to arrange how content — such as blogroll, recent posts, and monthly and category archive lists — displays in your website sidebar. With widgets, you [more…]
How to Add WordPress Widgets to Sidebars or Footers
WordPress widgets are built-in tools that enable you to arrange how content displays in your website footers or sidebars. Widget areas are the editable regions defined in your theme that allow you to insert [more…]
Discovering the Many WordPress RSS Options
RSS feeds come in different flavors, including RSS 0.92, RDF/RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, and Atom. The differences among them lie within the base code that makes up the functionality of the syndication feed. What’s [more…]
Custom Navigation Menus in Twenty Ten WordPress Theme
Navigation menus list links displayed on your website. In the Twenty Ten theme, you can define navigation menus on your site through the built-in menus feature in WordPress. These links can link to pages [more…]
Using WordPress RSS Feeds with Your Social Media Accounts
RSS feed technology is an important part of publishing content on a WordPress blog or website. RSS doesn’t only give your readers an option to subscribe to syndicated content from your website. Website [more…]
How to Determine What Kind of WordPress Designer You Are
These days, the term designer encompasses many things relating to the world of WordPress web design. A WordPress graphic designer has the ability and creativity to create graphics from scratch, or to modify [more…]
How to Use WordPress Static Page Parents and Children
People use the WordPress Pages feature on their sites to create static content (content that does not often change), such as an About Me or Contact Me page. Click the Pages menu in the WordPress Dashboard [more…]
How to Ensure Your WordPress Permalinks Work with Your Server
After you set the format for the permalinks for your site by using any options other than the default, WordPress writes specific rules, or directives, to the [more…]
How to Use RSS Feed Readers with WordPress Blogs
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. An RSS feed is a standard feature that WordPress blog readers have come to expect. So what is it, really? The Introduction to RSS page on [more…]
What You Can Do with WordPress E-Commerce Plugins
E-commerce solutions for WordPress sites are very popular, as more people turn to the web to make a little money or start a small business. [more…]
Finding and Installing Free WordPress Plugins
Plugins (add-ons) for WordPress provide specific solutions for your website, such as e-commerce (selling products), photo galleries and portfolios, web forms, social networking, and more. Free plugins [more…]
Set Up a Domain Name for Your WordPress Website
The first steps toward installing and setting up a WordPress website are making a decision about a domain name and then purchasing the registration of that name through a domain registrar. A [more…]
Register a Domain Name for a WordPress Blog or Site
Before you can even think about building themes and designing with WordPress, the first step is registering a domain name for your new site. Setting up WordPress correctly the first time is important and [more…]
Find a Home for Your Website before Working with WordPress
After you register your domain, you need to find a place for it to live — a web host — before you begin working with WordPress. A web host is a business, group, or individual that provides website owners [more…]
Compare Web Hosting Services
Basic requirements need to be in place before you can install WordPress on a web server. Explore web hosting environments and know which factors to take into consideration to determine the type of hosting [more…]
How Much Bandwidth for Your WordPress Website?
When it comes to bandwidth and hard drive space for website hosting, take into consideration what type of website you’re building. Whether designing for yourself or a client, plan ahead to avoid potential [more…]
Differences between Blogs and Websites on WordPress
You can build and design more than just a blog with WordPress. Begin to realize the potential of the software and how you can apply it to your website-building efforts. [more…]
Use WordPress as a Content Management System
A term that you will hear regularly in the WordPress community is the term CMS, which stands for content management system. Whether you run a blog, a website, or both, you use WordPress to manage your [more…]
Premium WordPress Themes and Frameworks
Premium WordPress themes and frameworks offer you an easy way to help yourself, your friends, and your clients design a nice-looking website quickly using WordPress for a lower cost than it would take [more…]
