This week I’ve had to turn once again to the world wide web for its wisdom when it comes to moving partial content from one WordPress site to another. Normally, WordPress’ built in export/import tool would do the trick. But in the case of the two instances I was presented with this week, it was not so. Both existing websites …
Contact Form 7 spins
While maintaining one of my websites today, I noticed when I submit the contact form, that the ajax icon at the button would just spin and spin with no real indication that the form was being sent. It was however – every time I clicked submit. The WordPress site uses the very popular Contact Form 7 plugin in its latest …
Get with Site5: Webhosting with Loads of Features
Among the available web hosting and domain registration companies out there, Site5 stands strong and firm, offering loads of features, stable servers, and great prices. When you’re shopping around for a web hosting company, you want to know 1) What do you offer? and 2) How much do you want me to pay? So we’ll start there first. With Site5, …
Change WP Permalinks for Better SEO
There are a million different articles out there for optimizing your blog for seo by changing wordpress’s default permalink structure to something other than the default. http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks http://wphacks.com/how-to-switch-your-wordpress-blogs-permalink-structure/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1523689/how-can-i-update-my-permalink-structure-in-wordpress http://www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-friendly-url-structure/4556/ After reading and realizing the risk of breaking all my links and having search engines reject me if I did it wrong, I decided anyway to change the default structure …
Use Scalable Background Image on Your Website
Because I basically suck at coding a sweet background to use as website background, I naturally result to Photoshop to design the image…but I get stuck at this question: “Ok, so how exactly am I going to put this image in the background and make it so it doesn’t look cropped, leaving white space around the image?” If you’ve ever …
About: New Page and How I Did It
UPDATE: Because of the new theme, I have removed the “About” page to which this post refers and am using the default About page, but have decided to keep this post as a tutorial on how it can be done. Click on “About” in the menu bar and you’ll be taken to the new static about me page. About Me …
Moving to Greener Pastures +w Really Big Fat Cows [or] How MonthsForever became tech4eleven.com
Interesting that THIS post follows the post Get the 411 because Monthsforever.wordpress.com has become tech4eleven.com. Monthsforever was created with the goal of not just writing about technological items and such, but also about music, art, and life in general. But if you’ve followed me these last few years, you really haven’t seen much of that other stuff, which is sad, …