WordPress

Code is Poetry and Update Now? OMG!

You know your Saturday night’s shot when you notice those 2 things about WordPress? I already wonder why WordPress has to be updated so often?  I installed WordPress October 1st using my cPanel and wasn’t really surprised to see that a newer version was available. Upgrading WordPress was easy when I hadn’t made any posts [...]

What I mean by “beginner”

Wow, I almost want to start this whole blog mess all over again just because I forgot what it was like when I was a newbie.  (And I really swore that would never happen to me, too!) When I’m talking about a beginner on this blog, I’m talking about someone new to WordPress.  That doesn’t [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Choosing a Theme to Customize

I’ve been told I chose the wrong theme for a beginner.  They’re prolly right, they don’t call me “Wrong-way Wonder” fer nuthin’. I did do some research before I chose this theme and I’ve just done some more today.  I found some good advice a few places: I thought eHow had the most complete and [...]