Using Widgetized Blocks in the Vertex Theme
One of the things you can do in the Vertex theme is put a WordPress widget anywhere you like. These can be just blocks of text, or they can utilize any of the features that your plug-in set might...
View ArticleNotes From The Training Sessions
This month we offered sessions on WordPress 101 and WordPress 201. The “101” course covered the basics. What’s on the dashboard, how to do posts and pages (and what’s the difference), theme and plugin...
View ArticleResponsive 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWhere 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleWordPress 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...
View ArticleMore 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...
View ArticleWhat’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”...
View ArticleAccessible 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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