Archive for the "Wordpress Help" Category

I wanted to recreate the SmoothGallery effect for my own blog designs without installing the popular Options WordPress Theme. I did some research and found this WordPress SmoothGallery plugin that I found very hard to set up. Then I read a tutorial on how to integrate a slideshow in … Read more…

reddit, like Digg offers web site integration buttons for webmasters. The implementation of the reddit buttons is very similar to my previous post on how to add Digg buttons to WordPress. In my next post, I will show you how to display Digg and reddit voting buttons to your … Read more…

On Digg.com’s Tools/Integrate page, there are 3 types of Digg buttons available for us to display on our web sites:

“Digg This” with Submit Capability
Simple “Digg This” with Digg Count (original version)
Custom Submission-Only Button

I think the 1st option makes the most sense. I want a Digg voting … Read more…

I was wrong about the WordPress CSS stuff being hidden. I actually found the official WordPress documentation on the WordPress picture alignment.

Apart from the code I mention, WordPress recommends adding this to your style.css too:… Read more…

This is another annoying WordPress bug I discovered about 4 months ago. I posted this bug on the WordPress support forum but the WordPress team have not fixed it yet. This “exclude pages from list” bug only affects you if you use WordPress pages with sub pages. WordPress 2.5 and … Read more…

WordPress refuses to update your post category if you have a tag slug and post category slug with the same name. You have to make some sacrifices here until WordPress fixes this limitation. Here are some probably solutions for this:… Read more…

Edit the category slug to a different name
Edit the

The official instructions on how to import blogger blogs to WordPress is way too simplistic – Go to “Manage” -> “Import” -> “Blogger” and follow the instructions. Been there, done that and I can tell you isn’t that simple.

After you have imported your posts, you might need to spend … Read more…

1. Click on the “Add an Image” icon at the top right of the “Post” box.

WordPress shoud simply create a button for this instead of adding it to the top right in my opinion.

2. Choose file to upload or enter the URL of the picture

For this example, … Read more…

This picture is aligned to the left of my content. Usually we display pictures to the left or right and have our sentences wrap around it. Try to make your paragraphs longer or reduce the size of the picture to make it look good when wrapped around the text.

If … Read more…

Today, I had to install WordPress on one of my client’s web host, which happens to be a Zeus web server. I have never used a Zeus Web Server in my life and I had no idea it does not support the same URL rewriting syntax like Apache’s mod_rewrite.

What … Read more…

Last year, I posted a list of my favourite WordPress plugins. Today, I use a slightly different lineup of WordPress plugins because I have found better plugins to replace some of the older plugins I used and the latest WordPress has made certain plugins obsolete.

The 2007 WordPress Plugin … Read more…

I just upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.5. I really like the new admin interface but I found a few bugs with WordPress 2.5.

1. wp_list_pages function does not excluded sub pages from the exclude list. I posted this WordPress 2.5 wp_list_pages error at the WordPress support forum. … Read more…

It’s been some time since my last post. I am ready to resume blogging again after a long break. I got rid of a lot of “bad investments” to pave the way for a better year ahead. About one year ago, I updated my blog template and plugins. This year, … Read more…

I recently deleted all my html files from my web site. I created WordPress pages instead. I find its easier to edit my pages with the WordPress 2.0 built in WYWISWG html editor rather than editing it with Dreamweaver and uploading the html files to my web server.

WordPress uses … Read more…