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This post looks at two Word Press plugins that allow direct editing of content. Front-end Editor and Inline Editor let you bypass the WP back-end to edit posts and pages. These plugins are good when developing a site where your client provides lots of content pages. It’s even more useful if the client is new [...]

How much should blog owners know about Php, etc.? Are there times you feel you are forced to learn more than you want about these coding languages?

Only recently did I realize I should know more about iframes. Often your knowledge expands out of necessity — when a problem hits you square in the face! …try as I might, I could not embed the virtual chat room within a page! WP seemed to gobble up the html code, leaving only the link for a pop-up version.

The Dagon Sitemap Generator is a WP plugin that provides a visual site map for your visitors. I recently added this feature to a new client site. That site has a drop-down menu for static pages and a blog category menu on the blog section.
A site with many pages makes it easier for visitors to [...]

There are times when you need to blackout your entire blog, allowing access to administrators only. This article discusses some of the reasons and predicaments that make the Maintenance Mode plugin so useful. I’ll give you information to create your own custom page for a ‘coming soon’ or launch type announcement. You can use these [...]

This post gives some tips on popular features you can add to your Blogspot blog with little effort: post summaries (ReadMore), recent comments, and recent posts.

StumbleUpon’s recent upgrade dramatically changes the online sharing game. Some Stumblrs are looking to jump ship, sniffing out other social media like FaceBook for the first time.
Version 3 friends are now “subscriptions” in Version 4. The transition started in early October. Like many of you, I assumed my friends were safely labeled for the upgrade. [...]

Tired of boring text links? Need to save space in your sidebar? Then consider an attractive image with more than one hyperlink spot. You’ve seen corporate sites with maps where you pick a city or state for local information. Another example is a painting of prominent 18th century figures seated around a table. Click each [...]

Last year, ProBlogger predicted that
“Mom blogs are poised to become the next big “It” when it comes to the internet–they’re gathering power like no other blogging niche and will only get bigger and better.
BloggingWithSuccess draws some interesting Mommy Bloggers. Many are, in their own words, “desperately seeking” our tutorial for creating a scroll box for [...]

This post shows you how to include snippets of code in blog posts or comments — in such a way that they don’t disappear. The only way to display real code is to help the html  “escape” your platform’s  built-in editor.

Why do I need to see html code?
Good question.
Here are a few instances where showing [...]