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Theme Change too easy in WordPress?

Maybe I’ll just change my theme every few days so that even I don’t know what web site I’m on. Jus’ kidding. I changed my blog theme last weekend to a theme more “immediately usable” for me.  I just couldn’t get my head wrapped around the CSS of my previous theme.  It was a good [...]

I just said it wuz easy, then

I’ve already got a question about trackbacks. Suppose I want the  trackback link to be a little graphic over in the sidebar kinda where the “your ad here” boxes are? Those ad boxes ended up over in the sidebar on my new theme you might be seeing here.  Who knows? What if I’ve changed it [...]

Lists of Lists and More Stuff

Since the beginning of this site, a part of it has always been sharing wonder-ful things I find out on the world wide net.  I like having someone to share with and my readers in the past thought it was pretty cool too from some of the things they wrote. Anyway, I want to add [...]

Blogging Basics – The TrackBack

I’ve read quite a few blogs for a long time and I’ve even left a few comments here and there. I’d also noticed that some people were leaving “track backs” where I was leaving comments but, until yesterday, I didn’t really know what they were. I wanted to find out because I’ve already been referring [...]

Why WordPress?

WordPress is Open Source scripting that enables you to use a database to interact with your HTML and CSS based pages. Is that clear as mud? It means essentially that the people who use your site have a lot of choice over what they read, watch or whatever there is to do on your site. [...]

A funny thing happened

On my way to the search engine yesterday afternoon to do some research for my previous post about choosing a good theme for a beginner, a wild thing happened. I put my phrase in Google and started opening the results in Firefox tabs. Got the first opened and went to open the number two result [...]

WordPress Beginner – What’s hard for me

The most difficult thing for me as a WordPress beginner is finding the place inside the admin panel when you configure or modify each aspect of your blog.  I believe almost everything can be done from there if you know where to find it. I’ve hand coded most of my sites almost since my first [...]