By Lisa,on December 23rd,2009% 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 . . . →Read More:Exclude Pages plugin By Lisa,on December 23rd,2009% 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 . . . →Read More:iPhone icons By Lisa,on December 18th,2009% 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 . . . →Read More:Wp E-Commerce –turn WordPress into an eCommerce site By Lisa,on December 18th,2009% 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 . . . →Read More:Mac shortcuts By Lisa,on December 17th,2009% 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 . . . →Read More:Akismet –filtering the spam from the comments By Lisa,on December 17th,2009% 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, . . . →Read More:TinyMCE By Lisa,on December 16th,2009% 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 . . . →Read More:Contact Form 7 and Really Simple Captcha By Lisa,on December 16th,2009% Buzzwords ahoy! I’m a hip and with-it computer internet person;running a business that is all about the web,you have to be! Mailing lists are old favourites on the web and are based on the assumption that people like to receive email messages with information in them,be they specials you’re offering,general information . . . →Read More:mailing lists versus social networking:the new web By Lisa,on December 11th,2009% I’ve been approached by a couple of clients recently to find-out if they can get a website with a “Members Only”section. A quick opinion before I start… There’s a catch with making things members-only:it actually works against page rank and your site SEO. It’s effectively what Rupert Murdoch (among others) is talking about . . . →Read More:Members only –hiding pages &posts By Lisa,on December 10th,2009% If you’re like me and forgotten to set posts and pages so they don’t have comments and posts turned on by default then the Extended Comment Options plugin is a great time-saver. FYI –turn OFF comments and options in the Settings panel by clicking Discussion,then turning off the checkboxes for: Allow link notifications . . . →Read More:Extended Comment Options –save time and energy | | |