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The upload dialogue box looked the same as normal except for the final line about the images which read Image Full Size (0×0) with a checkmark. It was so frustrating! I had moved my WordPress sites to new hosting and suddenly I could not upload images properly. They would only be uploaded full size, there [...]

The question of paid or free blogging platforms raised its head again recently when a new client was very excited to show me the new blog they had set up. I’m always very pleased with that type of initiative because it is so vital to show Google that you are regularly updating your website’s content [...]

I had a very tricky job recently involving a WordPress Favicon. If you’re not sure what one is, it’s the little image that appears for each website in the tabs that run along the top of your screen. If you’re like me and have about 20 open, it’s quite a pretty picture. Anyway, one of [...]

As I keep on saying, WordPress is a fantastic content management system and this is highlighted once again by the existence of WordPress Roles for Multiple Users. Jo, I want to get other people to write my blog posts. Do I have to copy and paste everything from their emails? Yes, you can do it [...]

Great infographic from The Globe and Mail about the new SOPA Anti Piracy Bill and what it actually means in plain English. Click on the image to see the enlarged version. When I was trying to show someone how to upgrade a site to the latest version of WordPress today, I went to make a [...]

Feedburner RSS Feeds on WordPress A great way to get readers to subscribe to your WordPress content is through RSS feeds and a great way to get readers to subscribe is with a Feedburner RSS button! RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication whereby interested subscribers click a button which then allows them to save your [...]

Everything was running smoothly and I was editing a post and save it. I went to the home page and…. … nothing! My url was in the search bar but there was no website. Cue panic! Back into the dashboard, everything looked normal, so I tried to access pages from there – they were all [...]

We’ve all done it! The ‘expert’ showed us how to do it and we think: “Yes, that’s easy, I’m sure I can remember how to do that!” And then a few weeks go by before you finally get around to repeating the instructions and trying to perform the activity… and you’ve completely forgotten how to [...]

There are two ways that you can create content on your WordPress site – Pages and Posts. Pages are what appear across the top of the menu header and Posts are the entries on any blog component to your website. Here are two videos that tell you how to Create and how to Edit a [...]

Working with my clients recently on their new WordPress websites, they pick up creating and editing Pages very quickly in Visual. But, of course, if I have set up a custom menu to govern which ones will be shown in the bar that runs along the top of the home page, no matter how many [...]