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WordPress Versatility: New Ways to Use WordPress
Image via Wikipedia by Kathleen Gresham When you say WordPress, people automatically think of blogging. WordPress is the blog engine supreme. It is free, easy to install and easy to customize. Thinking of WordPress as just a blog engine, though, se...
“My News Feed” Widget
BlogCatalog.com has come up with an interesting replacement for the BlogRush widget. It displays your own blog posts (on however many blogs you have registered with BlogCatalog) and some other activities such as Diggs. You'll see one in the right-han...
BlogRush R.I.P. | Blog Design Journal
BlogRush, the pioneering blog traffic exchange site, has shut down. I’m in the process of removing the BlogRush widgets from all my blogs. The explanation given was that BlogRush was not successful enough to justify the expense of running the ...
WordPress Widget Woes!
Am I the only one who hates the new WordPress widget management feature? I guess it is OK if you have just a two-column theme (only one column of widgets). But this theme, for example, has three columns just for widgets: upper left, upper right, and ...
Design a WordPress Theme? Easy!
WordPress themes are free by the hundreds, or cheap by the dozens. Or expensive, if custom designed. Usually. But now there’s a website where you can design your own WordPress themes—for free. Yep. Your colors. Your design. Chosen from me...
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Blidget!
I just discovered this site where you can make a widget of your blog posts. They call it a “blidget.” This widget, or blidget, automatically picks up and displays your last few blog posts. It is your very own private BlogRush-type widget,...
Great Blog Logos & Graphics? Easy!
To set your blog or website apart from the mass-produced herd, you need a custom logo, great graphics, maybe a custom background, too. But who can afford that for every site, especially if you have a lot of niche blogs to build? Well, now we all can...
Slow Blog? Or Too Many Toolbars?
I use Blog Design Journal as a sort of blog design laboratory. I constantly try out new widgets, plug-ins, ads and what-not. So far, experimenting here has worked out well. It keeps me from piddling with my other blogs too much and annoying the re...
Blog Widgets Add Graphic Interest
Blogs that are high on text and low on graphics can be visually boring. If you don’t have relevant photos or art for your blog, you might want to consider adding visually interesting widgets. Some are useful. Some are just fun. I try to sele...
Hosting Can Make or Break Your Blog
By now we all know that blogs that are hosted on your own domain tend to get better readership and rank higher in the search engines. But where to host? The company that hosts your blogs can make life easy—or miserable. If your blogs are off...
Adjust Vertical Spacing of WordPress Widgets
Sometimes the quickest, easiest way to accomplish a design task is to “cheat.” Instead of editing PHP code for example, you can adjust the space above or below a WordPress widget in a couple of simple ways. 1. Go to Presentation > Widg...
Footer Ads Problems
I’ve removed the footer ads from this blog for now. The Close button kept creeping down the window. Today when I got here, the Close button was completely gone, and there was no way to close the ad window. Yikes! These things are like weeds....
If You Run Out of Text Widgets, Do This!
Does this happen to you, too? I keep running out of text widgets. WordPress only gives you nine. So when you have used all nine text widgets, and you just have to add one more script or ad, what do you do? If there’s a text widget immediately...
