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Graphics and Coding Tools for WordPress Themes on the Cheap
WordPress Coding & Design Proprietary software can be crazy expensive. Do you know how much Photoshop costs? Dreamweaver? Yikes! If you don’t have the buckage to drop on these kinds of tools, how can you draw or edit graphics and code WordPress theme files on the cheap? Well, read on my friends. Graphics on the Cheap Instead of Photoshop, try GIMP. This funny-sounding program is open source free software. It is a robust and deep application for editing and creating ...
Continue readingFixing the  and †problem in wordpress
WordPress Coding & Design If you recently upgraded to wordpress 2.2+ from earlier versions you may have found your posts have been all messed up with lots of Â, †and ™ characters dotted everywhere. This happened to Blogging Tips posts, I quickly removed them from all of the affected posts but I didn’t spend any time looking into what caused this to happen. Last week I helped out Elina from My Lil Venture by upgrading her blog to wordpress 2.2.1. Elina ...
Continue readingHow to display information on selected areas of WordPress
WordPress Coding & Design Not all themes are the same though its fair to say that the majority of wordpress blogs can be divided into 4 main areas. The header, the sidebar, the footer and the main content area (eg the post, index or page areas). The main content area is the part which is different on every page of the blog. The information in the header, sidebar(s) and footer remains the same on every page of the blog. This is true for the majority of wordpress blogs. It ...
Continue readingUnderstanding the WordPress Sidebar
WordPress Coding & Design The sidebar is a very important part of your blog. It appears on every page of your blog and is usually the main method visitors use to navigate around your blog. The sidebar code may seem quite daunting at first but when you take the time to break it down, its very easy to understand. I hope this guide will help you understand the sidebar more and will help you modify it to your needs. A look at the basic code of the Sidebar Some themes use a ...
Continue readingLinking to individual comments in WordPress
WordPress Coding & Design One important link in the comments section of wordpress is the individual comment link. If a post only has a few comments it isn’t really essential however the more comments your posts get the more helpful. The comment link allows you to link to a specific comment on a thread. This can be incredibly helpful if you are referring to the 150th comment of a post! I thought it would be useful to explain how to add this link as there are a lot ...
Continue readingHow to integrate google adsense with your WordPress Blog without using plugins
WordPress Coding & Design Whether adsense is the best way to make money from a blog or not is up for debate however few people would argue that its the most common advertising media on blogs. There are numerous ways to integrate adsense into your blog. I was helping Stephen Welton integrate adsense into his new blog and it dawned on me that this is something a lot of people might have trouble with. Most wordpress bloggers use a plugin to do the trick. I personally tried ...
Continue readingCustomising the title bar in the head section of WordPress
WordPress Coding & Design The <title> tag in the <head> section of an html based webpage displays the title of the page you are viewing. In this post i will show you how you can display the information you want to display on your wordpress powered page. Title Bar Information The title bar is a very important part of your page. It gives information about the page that is being displayed. The title bar carries a lot of weight in search engines and how your blog ...
Continue readingHow to remove the ‘No Follow’ tag from your WordPress Blog?
WordPress Coding & Design In the last week or so it seems everyone is getting their overly concerned about the ‘No Follow’ tag that wordpress adds to commentators website link on comments they leave. For those who don’t know, the ref=”nofollow” tag is a tag you can add to links to tell google not to follow that link. I’f im honest im totally baffled why people are so concerned about this. I understand that people want to reward their ...
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