July 2011
3 posts
10 tags
Customizing your WordPress sidebar
Excerpted from “Does This Blogsite Make My Wallet Look Fat?”
Widgets are sidebar and footer elements that you can add, remove, organize and customize. Some plugins include their own widgets in order to make it easier for you to display them in your sidebar and footer. You can use these widgets (and the pre-installed widgets) to customize the look and functionality of your sidebar and...
4 tags
Slug, a funny name for a useful tool
Excerpted from “Does This Blogsite Make My Wallet Look Fat?”
Slug is a funny name isn’t it? It always makes me smile. A slug is another neat WordPress tool for controlling the permalink (website address) of your blog posts. Here’s how it works in our example: http://wpblogsites.com/wordpress-
blogsite/dont-forget-that-blog-post-idea/
The section in bold is what’s called the slug,...
9 tags
Google +1, Add it To Your Blogsite
Recently Google released their own twist of Facebook’s “like”, that is “+1”. You may have noticed the “+1” logo on blog posts and in Google searches, it looks like this
What is a “+1”?
Clicking the “+1” button on a blog post or search result means that you recommend it, you think it rocks and that you think your friends should...