‘tips for Wordpress’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 when they [...]

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 from other [...]

It is the fate of everyone who uses a computer to lose something important because of a hard disk crash, a virus, or through simple accident.
Sometimes things don’t work, but you can take precautions by backing-up your data.
DBC Backup will do this automatically for you, but does need some slightly technical know-how.
You can install DBC [...]

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