A customer asked me to install an MP3 player into their WordPress blog. I searched the WP Plugins directory for “mp3 player” and found several that either had too many features or required you to jump through hoops to get an audio file into place. Many required use of manually constructed [tags] to insert the player into a page. [READ MORE...]
Resumes, printable coupons, eBooks, and many other type of documents are prepared for distribution and printing as an Adobe PDF, (Portable Document Format), file.
If you have PDF files that you want to make available for download on your blog, follow these easy steps:
I was playing around with Wordpress trying to create a theme where the blog posts would not use a lot of screen space. I wanted to keep the content and background (wallpaper) image centered on the screen no matter what size the browser window was.
This is fairly simple to do, after you take a few things into consideration.
If you plan to use a fixed width layout for the page’s content, you will want your background image to act as a frame for the content, and will most likely keep the overall width of the image small.
If you plan to use a fluid layout, (one that expands to 100% of the screen size), and plan to design for higher resolutions, (e.g.- 800×600, 1024×768 or higher), you can create an image that is 1600 pixels wide (or wider) and the same CSS will ignore the extra width that isn’t used. Be sure to keep the key elements of the design centered in the middle 800 to 1000 pixels.
Here’s a screen shot of the “virtual iphone” I wanted to create. It was done as a Wordpress theme to create a micro-blog.
The CSS to center a background image is very simple:
A short time after you start your Wordpress blog, you’ll more than likely find an email in your inbox or a notice on the Wordpress Admin dashboard telling you someone has commented on one of your posts.
Most new bloggers will be happy, thinking someone has read their blog and cared enough to comment. Unfortunately, roughly 86% of all blog comments are spam1.
A few steps you can take to cut down on (or eliminate) Wordpress comment spam:
Somewhere between a full blown community portal and blogging is a small niche — multi-user blogging.
The idea is that you run a site and allow each member to have their own blog, and it’s all connected under one content management system.
If this sounds interesting, and you’re looking for software to do it, you might want to check out WordPress MU, (the MU stands for Multi User).
If you’re looking to have more features and want everything controlled under a single unified login / user management model, take a look at “BuddyPress“, (still in BETA, but looks promising).
BuddyPress is an extension for WordPress MU that adds most of the common social media functionality — “friending”, media galleries, user-to-user messaging, chat, forums, user activity streams and more.
If the software is anything like Wordpress in reagrds to being easy to install, easy to configure, and attracts even some of the legions of plug-in, widget and theme developers that make Wordpress better than most other blogging software, then BuddyPress is sure to be a hit.