Tutorial: Adding Gravatars to Cutline Themes

April 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Tutorial, Wordpress Themes

The Cutline theme has many excellent qualities, but it’s lacking gravatar support. This tutorial will help you add gravatars and even create a custom default gravatar for your site!

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Tutorial on Using Fantastico to Install Wordpress

November 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Tutorial

I’ve created a tutorial on using Fantastico to install Wordpress. It only takes a few minutes to get Wordpress up and running on your site. Learn how!

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Easy Wordpress .htaccess 301 Redirect

October 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Blogging with Wordpress, Tutorial

Moving your Wordpress blog from one domain to another? You can redirect all the old domain’s urls with three lines of code!

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How to Change the Name of Your Wordpress Theme

September 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Tutorial, Wordpress Themes

Editing a Wordpress theme and unsure how to make it look different from the original one? Some quick tips on changing the theme’s name and screenshot!

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Quick Fix for Unluved Commenters

September 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Tutorial

CommentLuv wasn’t detecting my most recent posts. Fortunately, a friend pointed me in the right direction and now CommentLuv recognizes my posts when I leave a comment. It only took a second to fix.

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How to Build a Wordpress Theme Preview Site

August 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Tutorial, Wordpress Themes

Tutorial on using plugins to allow theme-switching on any Wordpress site. Great for designers looking to show off work.

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How to Fix Italics on Redie 3.0

August 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Tutorial, Wordpress Themes

How to easily fix the italics in Redie 3.0 Wordpress Theme. The theme is well-done but the italics currently cause a line break.

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Using Wordpress PHP Conditional Tags to Create Variable Design

July 28th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Blogging with Wordpress, Tutorial

Using Wordpress’s conditional tags can add variety and nuance to your blog. Here are instructions on how to implement them using some very basic PHP. Novice-friendly.

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Denying Access to Comment Spammers (and others) Using htaccess and 403 Pages

July 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Blogging with Wordpress, Tutorial

How to use the .htaccess file to deny access to any IP address, whether it’s a comment spammer or just someone you don’t want on your site. And how to build a 403 page which will explain they’ve been blocked (and allow appeals, if you’d like).

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Changing the Header in Cutline 3-Column Split (or Right) Wordpress Theme

July 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Design, CSS, Tips, etc., SEO, Tutorial, Wordpress Themes

Simple instructions for changing the header in Cutline themes. Also some pointers on making the Cutline look a little softer.

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