Your users can choose to display a gravatar when posting or leaving comments on your site. Wouldn’t it be cool to have it where their Twitter Gravatars were used instead? There’s a great plugin that now makes this possible and easy! This plugin will get the user’s Twitter avatar by matching their twitter email address. [...]
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Display Your Tweets in Your Sidebar
September 27th, 2011 
admin Would you like to display your Tweets in the sidebar of your WordPress site? Now it’s easy to do so! Go into your WordPress dashboard and click on Appearance -> Widgets. There you will find the various widgets you can add to your sidebar. Look for the "Text" widget and drag/drop it in the Sidebar [...]
Unique 404 Page for your WordPress Site
September 26th, 2011 admin At one time or another, we’ve all landed on that dreaded 404 page. Usually when falling on an 404 page, most visitors leave your site. There are two things that you’d like to accomplish so as to avoid this happening. The first thing is to make sure that your 404 page has a live, easy-to-fine [...]
Add a Newsletter Feature to Your WordPress Site at No Cost!
September 24th, 2011 admin We all know the importance of staying in touch with our audience, clients and prospective customers. One of the ways is to do this via newsletters. It allows for us to keep our name fresh, supply great information and much more. At the same time, we are all looking to cut costs without cutting corners, [...]
Display Random Posts on a Page
September 23rd, 2011 admin This is a great way to create a page that supplies random and updated posts to your visitors! You can add the page to your navigation or place a link in your sidebar. Each time the reader refreshes the page, a new article or post will show! First you’ll need to create a new page. [...]
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No Comments »Use a Custom Page for Your Home Page
September 22nd, 2011 admin It’s really easy to have your home page be set up as a customized page. The first thing that you’ll need to do is to create the custom page. This isn’t as difficult as it sounds! Just create a copy of your page.php. Another option is to create a brand new page by creating a [...]
Posted in WordPress Ideas & Tips Tags: custom home page, custom wordpress, custom wordpress page No Comments »Display Your Post Time Twitter-Style!
September 20th, 2011 admin Would you like to have your posts show the posted time similar to how Twitter does it? Example: 6 minutes ago, 3 hours ago, etc. You can do this by adding the following to your functions.php file: function twitter_time() { echo "This Was Posted ".human_time_diff(get_the_time(‘U’), current_time(‘timestamp’))." ago"; } Then go into [...]
WordPress 3.0 – Memory Limit
September 19th, 2011 admin One of the drawbacks of using WordPress 3.0 is the memory limitation. Although easily changed as described below, it had good intentions. The primary reasoning for WordPress’ built in memory limit was to save your websites’ memory being consumed by poorly written plugins. WordPress’ standard memory limit is set to 32MB but by going into [...]
Autosave – Adjusting the timing
September 17th, 2011 admin One of the most frustrating things is to be almost done writing your new post and have a power glitch cause you to lose your internet connection, deleting all of your work in the process! One way to avoid this from happening is by adjusting the timing of the Autosave feature. WordPress, by default, has [...]
Posted in WordPress Ideas & Tips Tags: adjust autosave, auto save, autosave, wordpress No Comments »Monitor any broken links on your WordPress site
September 16th, 2011 admin Check your site for broken links with this plugin, available for download here. With this plugin, you can have your posts, comments and other content checked for broken links and missing images. It will notify you if any are found. Broken links are bad not just for your visitors but for search engine ranking. Once [...]
