Monthly Archives: July 2008

adding contact forms to wordpress

July 20, 2008 – 11:07 am

I’ve sifted through many contact form plugins for wordpress. Luckily you don’t have to go through the nightmare of trying them all out as I have done it for you! The best, most customisable I’ve found is available at delicious days (great recipes there too – in case you get peckish during installation). A huge [...]

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changing archive posts to excerpts

July 19, 2008 – 6:34 pm

If you want to change your archives in WordPress from full posts to excerpts go to design>theme editor>archive.php and change the following code from <?php the_content(); ?> to <?php the_excerpt(); ?> If archive.php doesn’t exist then best leave well alone….. (PS this also works on your index page)

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choose a hosting service

July 18, 2008 – 5:36 pm

I’ve posted on virtually all blogging platforms and have hosted blogs on several. The best route to an easily customisable, flexible, user-friendly experience is to use a hosting service that will handle your domain name, all your site hosting and will pre-install WordPress for you (with automatic upgrades). There are thousands of options out there [...]

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make e-junkies work in wordpress

July 14, 2008 – 9:01 am

The slick pop-up cart from e-junkies has this habit of disappearing on WordPress as the text editor reassembles the javascript into its own language. To stop this occurring go to dashboard >settings>writing>formatting and turn off ‘wordpress should correct incorrectly nested xhtml automatically’Also turn off visual editor in users>admin>’visual editor’ Then add following code directly after [...]

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pretty SEO friendly permalinks

July 13, 2008 – 2:20 pm

This should be one of your first ports of call when you enter the WordPress dashboard for the first time – it will enable you to use words as your permalink making things look nice and more importantly – very googly. If you change this after you have posts then any permalinks from other sites [...]

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Hello world!

July 13, 2008 – 10:09 am

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

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