blogmaking.net

I was poking around my site and I noticed that my “About blogmaking.net” page’s format had gone a little haywire. The right sidebar looked like it had completely disappeared. It hadn’t, completely anyway, it was way off on the bottom left side of the page, mostly off screen, I could just see the end of […]

Now that I’ve got quite a bit written and got rid of the defaults, I’m pretty okay with displaying my site to the rest of the world. However, because I set my blog up in a folder called “blog”, if you want to see my blog, you need to go to http://www.blogmaking.net/blog/. I’d like everyone […]

The basic steps to installing a theme are:
1. Find a theme. I’m going to go with this one for now: WP- Andreas01 1.3
2. Download the theme to your desktop. It will probably be a zip folder, if so unzip/unpack it.
3. Check for any read me text files or the theme’s homepage for any additional instructions. […]

The hardest job is choosing a theme! Fortunately there are sites that have gone to the trouble of compiling lists of many of the available themes out there. Here’s a few that I find particularly useful:
WordPress ThemeViewer: Has some nice sort functions and you can click on “test run” to give you a live working […]

Once you’ve activated the preinstalled WordPress Backup plugin, go to Manage/Backup to access your backup options. You have a choice of saving it to the server, downloading a copy or emailing yourself a copy. I would choose to download a copy or email it because saving it to your server won’t help you if your […]

WordPress comes with a few plugins installed but not activated. You can add more later, but the most important plugin to activate is the WordPress Database Backup as backing up is THE most important thing that you do as servers DO fail and WordPress does stuff up.
Activating a plugin is really simple: go to your […]

WordPress separates the content of your blog from its layout or appearance through the use of templates and css files bundled together and called themes.
The default WordPress theme is currently the Kubrick theme. I will have probably changed this site’s layout since, so here’s a screenshot of blogmaking.net with the default theme:

To manage and change […]

To add an embedded video from a site like YouTube or Google Video, you need to first look for the embed code on the video’s homepage. If someone has embedded a video that you like on their website, usually clicking on it will bring you to the video’s homepage on YouTube/Google Video.
On YouTube, if embeds […]

It is a good idea to create a separate test blog to try out themes and plugins and other modifications that catch your eye without disrupting your real blog. Just go through the instructions for setting up a blog again, only name the wordpress directory “test” (eg http://domain.com/test/) or some random string if you’d like […]

I stopped using Internet Explorer over a year ago in preference for Firefox (I’m half half with Safari and Firefox on the Mac), I love it and all the cool extensions you can get for it. IE6 was unbearably clunky and the whole registered Windows users verification thing to download IE7 was just such a […]