Yearly Archive: 2015
Prosper On The Web > 2015
Pam Marshall
December 3, 2015
WooCommerce, WordPress Sites
menus, screen options
Scenario: I’m working on a WordPress online store using WooCommerce and my next task was to set up the main menu with the main product categories. Problem: When I opened the Menus admin screen, Product Categories was not an option.…
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Pam Marshall
July 26, 2015
WordPress Sites
RSS, SEO
Kevin Muldoon wrote an in-depth post about RSS on the Elegant Themes blog. You’ll get some good historical background and suggestions about dealing with the changing RSS environment.
Pam Marshall
July 22, 2015
WordPress Sites
post formats
I like the examples of post formats in the Compete Themes blog.
Pam Marshall
July 20, 2015
Coding, WordPress Sites
sidebar, template, widget
In WordPress, if you want to have widgets in new areas of your posts page, then you can register more sidebars and write code to position them in your page templates. Here’s what you need to do: Register a named…
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Pam Marshall
July 19, 2015
WordPress Sites
CSS, search, widgets
The task: Simplify the Search widget on my Elusive Music WordPress blog. The problem: Where are the styles for the Search widget? Modern browsers an Inspect tool for examining CSS class names and property settings. Usually, you right-click on any…
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Pam Marshall
July 18, 2015
WordPress Sites
code, formatting, plugins
Writing a WordPress blog post that contains code snippets can be tricky. If you switch back and forth between the visual editor and the text editor, your formatting and even the content can get totally messed up. There are a…
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Pam Marshall
July 17, 2015
Coding, WordPress Sites
In my Elusive Music blog, I wanted to use custom excerpts, also known as manual excerpts. However, WordPress doesn’t automatically add a “Read More” link to a custom excerpt, just to automatically generated excerpts. I could have just added the…
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Pam Marshall
July 17, 2015
Tech Topics
accessibility, ALT attribute, images, regular expressions
Images serve many purposes: They can be purely decorative; they can be menu items or buttons; they can illustrate concepts and present data. How well does your web page work if your images are missing? If you are blind and…
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Pam Marshall
July 17, 2015
Tech Topics, WordPress Sites
page template, tag cloud, WordPress
I’m fond of tag clouds. When the blog writer labels each blog post with relevant tags, the word cloud shows at a glance the topics that get a lot of coverage. They’re also visually interesting, with font size showing how…
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Pam Marshall
April 28, 2015
Tech Topics
I have read over and over again on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) blogs and websites, that: Google hates duplicate content Google considers a single website that can be reached via multiple URLs as duplicate content Google considers www.website.com and website.com…
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