Recently I have been kicking around the idea of creating the main page of my blog to mimic that of a Magazine style layout. Displaying the most recent post at the top and then a breakdown of the next 4 posts in 2 columns each with excerpts is what I have had in mind. At the very bottom I have included the 2 most recent reviews I have done here … Continue Reading »
After reading a recent post on Miss604 during her Thursday Morning Link Fest: Delicious Edition made mention of a post that has 13 of the best WordPress pluins and I checked it out to find that they listed a very cool and useful contact form plugin; cformsII. cformsII is a very robust, full of features, very customizable contact plugin for WordPress and at first glance it looked like it might be … Continue Reading »
What is Twitter? Twitter is a social networking service that some people have called a mini-blog. You are allowed to send out tweets which are 140 character sentences to the people who follow you. It’s a small way of keeping people up to date as you go about your day. You can check out more over at www.twitter.com. Twitter, a replacement for RSS Feeds? The more popular that Twitter becomes the more I’ve … Continue Reading »
A lot of blogs out there like to post photos, but what some people might not know is that when you upload photos via WordPress to your blog you are going to be storing your photos on your web server. This just means every time that a visitor looks at a page with photos you are using your bandwidth to serve those photos to them. Bandwidth, What’s That? Bandwidth is your monthly … Continue Reading »
I've been looking at some of my Dominican Republic beach photos and started thinking about the newest released version of WordPress (2.5) and how they offer a better photo gallery. Well I am not quite sure if it is a gallery but from I recall from a video clip I cannot find, is that you can insert a gallery tag into a post and it will display all the photos … Continue Reading »
I have added a new page to my blog – Downloads, which currently serves two purposes. The first is that it will allow me to showcase various WordPress plugins I have created. The second will be a test bed for a WordPress plugin for which people would be able to download and install onto their blog to offer files to their visitors. My Current Downloads. Currently the only download available is … Continue Reading »
In recent blogging news WordPress.org has released the much anticipated new release; Version 2.5. Upgrading didn’t go horribly wrong else you wouldn’t be able to read this post. I am glad updating Wordpress goes fairly easily and I like the new features offered with this new release, especially the uploading of multiple images at once. If you haven’t done so yet, look to update your Wordpress blog for free! … Continue Reading »
Alright well I've made the jump into Wordpress and I've tried to create a theme similar to my custom blog so that the transition would be somewhat seamless. I think I did an decent job at recreating it since it's my first time trying to create a theme and have ensure it has the same functionality as my custom blog script. There might be a couple issues and I will be … Continue Reading »
I’ve been learning how to create Wordpress themes (templates) and I am surprised that they are not too difficult to create. If you have knowledge in CSS, HTML and some PHP it’s pretty straight-forward in creating a theme. What I have been working on is converting my custom blog script into a theme for Wordpress. So far it’s going pretty well and when I am done, there shouldn’t be too much … Continue Reading »
I've been thinking more and more about going to a Wordpress based platform and having a hard time convincing myself it would be a good switch. There are a few reasons why I would want to make the switch to Wordpress as a blogging platform and so far I am leaning more towards it. Reason for why I would like Wordpress: Large support for plugins for creating more functionality to my blog A … Continue Reading »