H1 Hack for WordPress Pages

by Heather | Dec 22, 2008 | Learning Wordpress, SEO, Wordpress Code, Wordpress Hack

WordPress H1 Hack – This allows you to change the H1 tag of the page without affecting the page name, title, and menu title of the page. This has most commonly been used in the page.php file of the WordPress themes only, but can certainly be applied to any page...

Adding pictures to WordPress Posts

by Scott Hendison | Jan 23, 2008 | Learning Wordpress, Wordpress basics

Putting pictures in WordPress posts and pages is easy, but not exactly intuitive. This is a fast tutorial to show you how it’s done with minimum effort.

Let Others Post To Your WordPress Blog Safely

by Scott Hendison | Jan 20, 2008 | Learning Wordpress, Wordpress basics

Did you know that you create a new WordPress user, and set them to ‘contributor’ rather than to author or editor?  When you do that, their option after writing a post automatically changes to ‘submit for review’ rather than...

Paste Easily to WordPress From MS Word

by Scott Hendison | Jan 15, 2008 | Learning Wordpress, Wordpress basics, Wordpress Glitches

I’ve always recommended that people not paste text directly into WordPress from Microsoft Word, and instead suggested that they open their Microsoft Notepad, paste into Notepad, then copy and paste back into WordPress. This extra step removes the stupid...

The Big WordPress Ping List

by Scott Hendison | Dec 29, 2007 | Learning Wordpress, Wordpress Code

Update 2012: Stop using a big ping list – You’re just adding to the noise. Pingomatic is all you need… Old Info: Having a big ping list added to your WordPress blog is not going to make or break you, but the more exposure, the better, right? At a...

Edit Default Comment Invitation

by Scott Hendison | Nov 25, 2007 | Learning Wordpress, Wordpress basics, Wordpress Code

One of the benefits of even having a blog is getting people to comment, because that adds more content and freshens your pages, known as UGC, or “User Generated Content”. However, most people don’t even bother to update the default comment invitation...