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:

• login to the Admin area of your WordPress blog
• click Write Post
• give the post a Title and begin to enter the text of the post
• at the point in your post where you want the PDF link to appear, click the Add Media icon

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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:

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Maybe the best thing since WordPress itself is the Lighter Menus plugin which instantly converts the default Admin menu interface of WordPress into one-click drop-down menus.

For instance, instead of having to click Design, then click Themes, then click Theme Editor to make a small change to the appearance of your WordPress blog, simply hover over the Design tab, move down to Theme Editor and click --- once! In addition to the ease of use, the plug-in conserves space at the top of the screen making it less likely you'll need to scroll down to perform some operations.

To get the plug-in go to the WordPress site, click Extend, then click Plugins and search for "lighter menus".

The plugin is available in a number of languages and with over 20,000 downloads, and an (almost) 5 star rating, I believe it's a stable WP plug-in that you can depend on to save you time and make blogging faster and easier.

The Lighter Menus plugin is written by corpodibacco, you can find out more about it and other plugins from the author on the www.italyisfalling.com blog, (along with writings, poetry and other blogged stuff)...