If you want to do justice to your best photographic work at your WordPress blog, use the Flickr Set Slideshows Plugin. Flickr is a huge worldwide network of amateur and professional photographers. At Flickr you can organize your photos in large collections or smaller sets. Here’s how to display a slideshow of one of your [...]
A blog is a Web log, a journal kept online. If you’ve already kept a journal with pen and paper. This post tells why journalers should try blogging, and how to get started. Blogging is the easiest and cheapest way to publish. Type some words into window, drop in a picture for illustration, and click [...]
Want to sell downloadable e-books or audio books from a WordPress website using PayPal (not credit cards)? Then check out the easy-to-use and free WordPress plugin, Simple WP Shopping Cart. At Tips and Tricks HQ you can watch a video explaining how to set up this plugin, once it’s installed. To install the WP Shopping [...]
Why change your WordPress theme to accomodate mobile devices? Read on! If you’re a regular visitor to CyberKenBlog perhaps you’ve noticed that it has a new look, and even more importantly, new functionality. I did get many compliments on the previous theme. People said CyberKenBlog looked professional, classy. Maybe this new theme, Fastfood by Two [...]
Want to learn the fundamentals of maintaining a WordPress website? I invite you to visit my WordPress Primer at Teledavis.com. (See the overhead menu tab on the front page.) At Teledavis.com I explain how training a web team and using WordPress for your website software can help your organization maintain a timely, informative, and popular [...]
My dad always told me “always use the right tool for the job.” And so it is with writing a first draft of any text document. You don’t need a full-featured word processor, like Microsoft Word. You want an application that launches quickly, and just puts the words on a page. If you’re a Windows [...]
If you read my last post you know that WordPress is an excellent, lean, and free content management system. I mentioned in that post that WordPress began as a blogging software, but has evolved into a handy tool for maintaining a wide array of websites. The “front end” of a WordPress blog is the public [...]
My company, Teledavis, LLC, helps faith communities and other not-for-profits with inexpensive and easy-to-edit websites. When I began this business I used web-based templates, like Google Sites, and free WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) web page editors, like Mozilla’s KompoZer. I have come to realize, however, that such tools are not as [...]