‘tips & tricks’

I’ve already written about membership sites and the ways you can create a Wordpress site in such a way.
What I didn’t write about was “membership levels”. That is, where you have different fees for different levels of membership. Frankly, it didn’t occur to me until a client asked for it.
For single-level membership…
For single-level membership, you [...]

The Favicon is the little icon that appears next to a website address in the website address bar – up there at the top of your browser. It is literally a tiny little image that’s dropped into the html folder of your website, or if you want to be neater, an image subfolder. The code at [...]

Macs and iPhones are, like everything from Apple, rather nice pieces of kit. Despite the naysayers, the doom-mongers who go on about how they will one day be as inundated with viruses as PCs are today, they still help rather than hinder you when you’re trying to do work. A friend once pointed out the [...]

Sometimes you might need to exclude a page from your menu. Ordinarily you’d do this by setting the status of the page to “Draft”, at least while it’s still being edited.
But what if it’s a page that doesn’t really fit within the browse sequence, an error page for example.
Most themes come with a 404 error [...]

If you own an iPhone you might have noticed that if you add a website to the home screen, some appear with neat icons and some just display a representation of the page you were on.
It’s actually rather simple to get a neat icon for your website to appear on the iPhone, and it looks [...]

You can easily, simply and for zero cost, turn your Wordpress site into a place to sell your wares online.
All you need in advance is a PayPal account and a little patience and, of course, the WP E-Commerce plugin from Instinct Entertainment of New Zealand.
Wp E-Commerce is an all-inclusive plugin which handles everything from stock [...]

There are a number of keyboard shortcuts for the mac that are either direct mirrors of the ones for Windows (or more likely, Windows have mirrored Mac), or completely new.
First place to look is at a handy table of what all the odd symbols mean and their corresponding keyboard button. You can see that here [...]

A neat built-in plugin that comes with every installation of Wordpress is Akismet.
What it does is filter comments that are made to your website as compared to a master system on the akismet servers. This will catch the vast majority of comment form SPAM. You can read more about the Akismet service on their website.
To [...]

An odd name for a really useful plugin is TinyMCE!
TinyMCE gives a bunch of additional functions to the post and page editor toolbar (otherwise known as The Kitchen Sink, which is accessible by clicking ).
Things like creating a table would ordinarily involve clicking the HTML tab and using a lot of Table tags, TR for [...]

Contact Form 7 is a nice and simple to customise form plugin for Wordpress which works with the Really Simple Captcha plugin which gives the additional possibility of adding one of those odd images of letters and numbers which supposedly prevent spammers getting at your form.
Contact form 7 has a major advantage because you can [...]