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WordPress Wednesdays Archives

Week by week my WordPress Wednesdays' posts are methodically teaching how to take advantage of the WordPress blogging platform; the best dadburn, open-source blogging software available in the blogosphere.

If you aren't using the FREE self-hosted version of WordPress, then for crying out loud, ditch your blogging training wheels and consider the freedom of balancing the weight of your blog ALL ON YOUR OWN! There is no end to the places you can go!

breathe in. breathe out. baby steps.

• Upgrade WordPress Using cPanel and Fantastico
  09-27-2008

  In the series, Ditch Your Blogging Training Wheels, I strongly suggested self-hosting your WordPress blog with Liquid Web, or any web host running cPanel with Fantastico’s Auto-Installer.
  Fantastico’s automated processes make it easier to initially install a self-hosted Wordpress blog, as well as manage future upgrades (of which there are many).
  In this [...]

• Purify your WordPress experience
  09-17-2008

  I am in the process of re-vamping the WordPress Wednesday posts. As WordPress continually upgrades itself, I feel the need to cull my tutorial posts to keep up. If I have posts for outdated plugins and/or functions, I’m going to delete or update them. If I have posts using old screenshots, I’m [...]

• WordPress Preserving their Trademark
  02-12-2008

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  So, this week I’m re-working how to do WordPress Wednesdays. Special thanks to Tasha who emailed me this link. With WordPress being open-source software, and my tutorials written only to aid people in the use of their software, I never thought registering and using the domain name, wordpresswednesdays.com, [...]

• What’s up with your 404 page?
  02-6-2008

  Do you have one? Do you want one? Do you have any idea what a 404 page is exactly?
  Well, whether this is the first time you’ve heard of it, or you are very aware of what a 404 page is, you need one - plain and simple.
  But first, for those with [...]

• Personalize your WordPress Category Archives
  01-17-2008

  It has been one bazillion years since I wrote one of these - and oh my goodness, thank you for your patience. Mr. OMSH has taken good care of me and today I feel surprisingly rested. Now, if I can just shake this cough/lung/phlegm stuff. Nice, eh?
  Enough about me though - today [...]

• WordPress Wednesdays: Wrap Text Around Images Using CSS
  10-31-2007

  Last week’s WordPress Wednesdays tutorial went over the basics of how to center and border images using CSS. This week, as promised, the WW tutorial will be similar; I will demonstrate how to use CSS to assign image borders WHILE justifying images to the left or right and wrapping text around those same images.
  Without [...]

• WordPress Wednesdays: Center and Border your Images using CSS
  10-24-2007

  I enjoy a good blog entry, but find I more readily frequent bloggers that blend in a bit of eye candy here and there.
  Yea, I want to read what they have to say, but I also want a visual experience. The addition of images (photos or graphics) within a post not only [...]

• WordPress Wednesdays: CSS is NOT a series on TV.
  10-17-2007

  I like to personalize everything I touch. Some projects take longer to do than others, but if I stick with something, it eventually has “my mark” on it.
  I enjoy working within the WordPress platform because I can customize until the cows come home (and trust me, that’ll be a looooooong time because [...]

• WordPress Wednesdays: A-A-AKISMET! … Gehsundheit
  10-11-2007

  Yes, I know it’s Thursday.
  Yes, I know I’m late with this.
  Yes, I know I need to fold clothes … oh wait, that doesn’t apply here.
  If you can forgive all that, we can move on.
  Now, first things first. How many of you have gotten jiggy with the self-hosted WordPress blog? Show of hands? [...]

• WordPress Wednesdays: The Rest of the RSS Story
  10-3-2007

  Last week’s WordPress Wednesdays’ tutorial was about RSS Feeds; what feeds are, why they are relevant to blogging, how to burn your blog’s feed, and finally, how to use a fabulously smart feed plugin to direct any feed burned-off your blog to FeedBurner.
  There was one additional thing I was going to post in a mini-update [...]

• WordPress Wednesdays: Feed Me Baby!
  09-26-2007

  GOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING! Okay fine, so its the afternoon already. GAH! Do you KNOW how long these posts take to write? *grumble*grumble*
  Today we are talking about feeds, as in RSS Feeds. We will learn what feeds are, why they are relevant to blogging, how to burn your own feed, [...]

• WordPress Wednesdays: It themes we need a theme
  09-19-2007

  If you didn’t notice in the navigation bar above, I’ve created a WordPress Wednesdays Archive. So, if you’ve just come along and need to catch-up or you’ve been here all the while and may need to find previous posts from time to time, I’ve tried to make it a lot easier than wading through [...]

• WordPress Wednesdays: Dashing through the Dashboard
  09-12-2007

  Glad to have y’all back for WordPress Wednesdays. If you weren’t here for our kick-off last week, please go and read WordPress Wednesdays: It’s Wise To Organize before you begin working with us on this week’s tutorial.
  I know many of you are chomping at the bit to dive into the meatier things, but I can’t [...]

• WordPress Wednesdays: It’s wise to Organize
  09-5-2007

  Welcome to WordPress Wednesdays. I am your hostess and, as the hostess with the mostest, I think it’s only fittin’ to start things off by thanking AngellaD for giving me a name to my tutorials. Such the smart Canadian cookie, that one.
  Also, before getting started, the focus of this, and ongoing, tutorial(s) is [...]