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Use Cascading Style Sheets to Position Images In WordPress

Published in January 15th, 2010

Posted by Marty in Blogging, Cascading Style Sheets, General Interest, Google, Programming/Coding, WordPress Tips

Google is just the most darned amazing tutorial service in human history. A few years ago when I adopted WordPress for my blogging platform the WordPress forums for getting questions answered were so convoluted I just wanted to scream in frustration. Thank goodness, Google has expanded it’s indexing to cover pretty much every subject. And […]

Install A Facebook Share Link Button On Your Blog Site

Published in December 30th, 2009

Posted by Marty in Blogging, WordPress Tips, facebook

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Have you been wondering how to add the Facebook share button to each of your blog posts? Simple. It’s as easy as using this share button Javascript directly from Facebook’s site. I just Googled facebook share links and it was the first item on the search list.
It gives you options to make it a button […]

Blogging While Brown Review - Cheryl Contee and Naoko McCracken

Published in July 3rd, 2009

Posted by Marty in Blogging, Politics, WordPress Tips, twitter

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Cheryl Contee a.k.a. Jill Tubman of Jack & Jill Politics and Naoko McCracken a WordPress rep gave a joint panel on “Using the Latest Tech Tools To Grow Your Blog”. I’ll start with Cheryl’s piece first.
Cheryl emphasized the point that when you have made the decision to convert from one blog platform to another (ex: […]

YouTube Embed Tutorial

Published in January 6th, 2008

Posted by Marty in WordPress Tips

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It took buying “WordPress for Dummies” for me to learn about the YouTube embed in post process so here goes.

Wow, it’s simple. Find your favorite YouTube clip, click on the nondescript “Embed” label in the right column. The code for the clip will be hi-lited in blue. Then copy the code and paste it […]

Experimenting with WordPress Features

Published in December 26th, 2007

Posted by Marty in WordPress Tips

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I FTP’d the all-in-one-seo-pack into my WP directory with all my other WordPress files and activated it this morning. While doing that I stumbled upon this file default upload feature that was part of the existing theme and I think I know how to add picture files to a post now.

Yep it works. Now […]

Changing A WordPress Theme

Published in November 10th, 2007

Posted by Marty in WordPress Tips

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I finally figured out how to do it! Man, it only took forever. Who else has been struggling with this platform? Fear not, Marty’s giving a tutorial, right here, right now.
O.K. First you have to find your WordPress files on your host server. Specifically, you’ll need to locate the folder listed as wp-content/themes. If you […]

First MartyBLOGs Post on WordPress

Published in June 1st, 2007

Posted by Marty in WordPress Tips

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I found the administration panel. This is where you write and edit posts, design the layout etc. Nice system. I’m duly impressed with WordPress and all I’ve done is write this first little note. I don’t yet see where the tag section is but maybe that’s for the best and I can start fresh with […]