Customizing a WordPress Theme – The Right Way

What do you do when you have found a theme that you like but you want to make some adjustments?  Or perhaps you like a theme’s bones but not so much the styling and want to change it.  Enter the Child Theme.

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Foray into WordPress Themes and Plugins

During much of the past 20 years the main lifeblood of, first, Software Solution Specialists, and now JVHM, Inc., has been to develop custom client-server software applications.  Applications have ranged from Client Relationship Management (CRM) systems to HR systems to barcode labeling systems and Continue reading

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WordPress Plugins Worth Mentioning

For over a year now I’ve been utilizing WordPress as the code base for the web sites that I build. Why? Because it is simply amazing, full featured and doesn’t add additional costs to my clients’ sites, actually, it Continue reading

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WordPress 3.0 Has Arrived!

Blue WordPress ButtonIt has been just about two weeks now since the release of WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious”. As of today, version 3.0 has been downloaded over 2.5 million times, that’s almost 185,000 downloads per day! Why would WordPress 3.0 have such popularity? Because it is, without a doubt, the best content management system (CMS) software out there. With version 3.0 WordPress has added some Continue reading

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Video Sitemaps – Do You Have One?

As I create more-and-more How-To and other videos as a way of sharing what I’ve learned with others, I need to be thinking about how I can improve the saturation of my videos from an SEO perspective. This will help others more readily find my videos and, hopefully, Continue reading

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Creating a YouTube Playlist

So now you have a bunch of videos you have produced, many covering different areas of the same topic. Or maybe you have a video that was a bit long and so you split it into multiple parts. How can you assist your viewers on to the next related video? Well, one way to do this is to create a Continue reading

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Automatic WordPress Backup

Keep You Website SafeI’m sure many of you have some sort of backup process that you follow for your WordPress powered websites but, if you don’t, there is a great plugin that you can utilize to ensure that, if a catastrophe were to beseech you, that you could Continue reading

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Adding Linked Captions to Images in WordPress

This is a re-print of my original post on blogWIP.com. At the end of this post I note some changes I had to make to this re-post to get the same results.


So, you are writing a Post in WordPress and are including an image that isn’t yours and doing so requires that you include the proper credits and, possibly, a link. Or maybe it is yours and you want to include your photo credit / copyright . Well this can be difficult within WordPress if you are using the Continue reading

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Updating WordPress Plugins

Part of the maintenance of a website built upon the powerful WordPress publication engine is to periodically review plugins that have updates released by the plugin’s author. It is recommended that Continue reading

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Auto Thickbox Plugin by Semiologic

Recently I was looking to update one of my websites to incorporate a feature that, when a user clicks an image or a link, would pop a window to display the image at full size. The typical term for this feature is “thickbox”. It’s a great look and also Continue reading

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