When you create an optin box (or sign-up form) on your website, you may wish to get your subscribers to fill in one or more extra fields. The two standard fields are Name and Email, but sometimes you may need a phone number, or some other contact information, or a question-type field.

This next video shows you how to create an optin form with custom Read the rest of this entry

Some useful info for you all: if you don’t have a Paypal account, here are simple instructions on applying for a free account.

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The “All In One SEO Pack” has changed a lot in recent releases, and it has a couple of very handy extra fields that you can “load” with keywords.

I’ve made a new video which briefly describes the fields that have always been there, and then demonstrates the 2 new fields and how you might be able to use them on your website Read the rest of this entry

Here is a quick reminder of how you can add links to other websites, files etc. within a page or blog post on your own site.

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Sometimes,  when you copy text from MS Word (or an equivalent editor) straight into Wordpress, you can get some weird results when you view the saved post on your website, even if it looks OK when you’re editing it in Wordpress. This is often due to the “behind the scenes” formatting from the fancier editors, not being correctly interpreted in Wordpress.

If this does happen, one way you can get around the problem is Read the rest of this entry

Did you know that if you sell anything on your website, that you are legally required to have a Read the rest of this entry

Many of you will now have realised that the Wordpress editor, which is quite basic, doesn’t easily allow you to amend the SIZE or STYLE of your text.

If you’re prepared to take a small little step into the word of HTML, I’ve made a short video on how you can amend the font size & style (or family) in posts and pages.

1. Here is the video demonstrating how to make the changes

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If you want to change the format of your sidebar, most themes will allow you to update the sidebar using “widgets.

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Whenever I create a Wordpress site for clients, I always include an automated backup which gets emailed to the client each week. However, this is only one portion of your website – the content backup – i.e. the posts and pages that have been created on your website.

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I’ve made a small change to the “Basic Editing in Wordpress” manual, adding in a Table Of Contents. Read the rest of this entry