I have a client who has a monthly magazine that is supported by advertisers. Usually, the layout is pretty predictable; content on the left, ads on the right. However, over the past few months, she has been doing 2 magazines a month with one being a “special” edition. The special [...] Read more »
How to Create a Unique Navigation Button in WordPress with CSS
Creating navigation is pretty cut and dry and straight forward. You can adjust the navigation wrap and colors and add a customized menu in the menu settings. But this is global. Every one of the navigation tabs will look the same. So what do you do when you want one [...] Read more »
How to Add Google+ Comment Functionality without a WordPress Plug-in
My mantra is if you can easily do something without a plug-in on a wordpress website, it is probably a good idea not to. There are a lot of reasons why you shouldn’t…security being probably the most important reason. Anyhoo… With that said, Google+ quietly added the ability to use [...] Read more »
WordPress Security- How to keep the hackers out.
This is probably old news by now but recently there has been an increase with hackers hacking wordpress and joomla websites. If you haven’t read it and run a website using the Joomla or WordPress platform, you should. I’m going to keep this brief and you can watch the video [...] Read more »
How to Add Social Media Icons to your Header in WordPress
I had a client who wanted to add some social media icons to her header and figured this tutorial may be valuable to someone who doesn’t know how to do it and wants to learn without totally wrecking their wordpress website or using a social media plug-in to get it [...] Read more »
How to Build Your WordPress Database for Offline Work (pt. 2)
This is the second (and final) part of building a wordpress platform offline. If you missed part 1, you can click here. If you are wondering why you would want to do this when you could just as easily build a test site online, consider this ; it’s offline so [...] Read more »
How to work on WordPress (or any PHP files) Offline
This is the first part of a 2-part series on how to build a wordpress platform locally. The first part will show you how to install XXAMP, delete certain files, etc. The second part goes over how to install wordpress on your computer (you can find part 2 here.) I [...] Read more »
How to do mouse over effects in HTML with wordpress
One of the great things about using wordpress for design is that there is (literally) a plug-in for almost anything you could imagine you would want to do. This week, one of my musician clients called me and asked me if there was any way to create a mouseover effect [...] Read more »
How to Customize the AddThis Plugin
The Add This plug-in is crazy simple to use and almost perfect if you want to have social buttons on your website. I say almost because out of the box, anytime someone “tweets” your message, @ addthis will be at the end of the message rather than your name. If [...] Read more »