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Customizing a WordPress Theme – The Right Way
Customizing a WordPress theme’s look-and-feel is easier than you might expect. It is important, though, to do it the right way. What is the right way? It is to use a Child Theme.
Creating a YouTube Playlist
Assist your viewers by providing a playlist that organizes related videos in an orderly fashion. The YouTube playlist is an awesome tool for delivering Part II of a video or a related video within a similar topic. And creating and sharing a YouTube playlist is very simple. Check out this how-to video for step-by-step instructions.
Automatic WordPress Backup
The Automatic WordPress Backup plugin by Dan Coulter makes it easy to perform the all important backup of your complete WordPress website. A site backup plan is critical, now it’s painless too!
Adding Linked Captions to Images in WordPress
Have you figured out how to include a linked copyright notice or photo credit in the caption of an image? Have you tried to find a plugin to help with this? Had any luck? If so, let me know. If not, don’t worry, you’re not alone. So, what can a non-developer do? This post covers one solution that isn’t the most elegant but it gets the job done.
Updating WordPress Plugins
WEBphysiology has produced a video that will help you through the process of maintaining any plugins that you may be using in your WordPress powered website.
Auto Thickbox Plugin by Semiologic
In my search for a WordPress plugin to add a thickbox image pop-up I found Auto Thickbox by Denis de Bernardy with Semiologic. The plugin works great and is customizable enough to cover my needs. This how-to video shows you it in action.
Adding a WordPress Plugin
WEBphysiology has produced a video that will help you through the process of adding a plugin to your WordPress powered site including plugin selection, installation and activation.
Adding a Custom Facebook Static FBML Tab
Using the Static FBML application to add a custom tab to your Facebook Page will allow you to better brand your page and tie it into your overall Internet branding.
Creating a Facebook Page
Creating a Facebook Page for your organization is fairly easy. You first will need a Facebook account. Then a few short steps and you can create your Facebook Page and get your organization’s social network kicked into high gear.
Creating a Custom Static FBML Facebook Page
Facebook has a great application, Static FBML, that is available for anyone to use. With it you can create a custom tab on your Facebook Page. FBML is quite similar to HTML and basic designs can be readily created by folks with HTML skills, though, CSS skills are always a good thing. FBJS, Facebook Javascript, also is available for the more adventurous.