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Responsive Design and Your Blog
Is your blog’s theme responsive? As of last month, Google began penalizing sites that didn’t have a responsive design. When users ran a search on a mobile device, pages that weren’t responsive were...
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The Divi Builder Plugin
Elegant Themes‘ Divi has been very popular since its release a few years ago. It was the number 2 theme on GoDaddy’s “Hot 100” list for October 8, 2015. In fact, you’re reading a page on a Divi-themed...
View ArticleA Really Big Guide to Finding Images for Your Blog
This is a nice resource on using images on your site. There are suggestions for file formats and sizes, plugins to use, branding considerations, copyright and where to find royalty-free or public...
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Where Are My Pictures?
There might come a time when you’re authoring your blog that you notice something strange. Your post should look like this: But instead it looks like this: Instead of your photo, you just see the title...
View ArticleBlog Password Problems?
We’ve noticed a spate of lost-password requests lately. There are a few things you should know. The vast majority of user accounts here use your PirateNet credentials, the very same ones you use to log...
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How To Add A Contact Form To Your Blog
One of the most common things that people want on their web site or blog is a contact form. We’ve got a few tools here that make it easy to build and deploy one. It might be tempting to try and build...
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New Plugins To Help Your Writing
Posts are always more engaging — and readable — when there’s some visual variety to the page. Embedded images are a popular way, but even things like bulleted or numbered lists can break up the...
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WordPress 4.9
All of our WordPress installations here at TLTC have been upgraded to the latest version, 4.9. There’s a lot going on under the hood, but there are also a few new features that can make your site...
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More Sources for Public Domain and Creative Commons Images
WP Tavern offers a roundup of 13 sites. The first few paragraphs might get a little too deeply into the weeds for your purposes; the distinction has largely to do with if you’re sub-licensing a...
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What’s “Gutenberg”?
This is the long-awaited, much-discussed (at least if you follow WordPress closely) “Try Gutenberg” prompt. Gutenberg is the next-generation editing tool, which is going to replace the “classic”...
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Accessible WordPress
Is WordPress accessible? In several ways, it’s up to you. Accessibility is baked in, according to the WordPress coding standards, since 2015: These are standards that WordPress features should meet for...
View ArticleArchiving Blogs
We’re doing our regular summer housecleaning on blogs, and since last week we’ve archived a lot of them. Here are the general criteria we used. First, only blogs that are more than two years old are...
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