Feeling Squeezed by the WordPress Upload Quota? Optimize!
The upload quota on WordPress at LPS is currently set at 40 MB. A typical photo directly off of a digital camera is between 1 and 2 MB, and with newer cameras even larger. Given these two things, you could use up your whole quota in a single photo gallery! Bummer! So how can you […]
Tips to speed up your WordPress site
I was working on my wordpress site this morning and lamenting how slow it was loading. My first thought was, “What is going on with the server?!” Sometimes the server does slow down and we are always looking for ways to optimize and deliver better performance to our web sites, but very often there are […]
HTML Named Colors
Looking for a color to use in your web site? Here’s a great list of the named HTML colors along with tools that let you grab darker or lighter shades of each or mix them with other colors.
Placing Tables into WordPress Posts and Pages
I get asked a lot about placing tables into WordPress. I’m obligated to first say that tables are intended for tabular data that you wish to display in your site such as a directory or anything that would feel at home in a spreadsheet. Tables are not intended to be used as a layout tool […]
WordPress admin on smaller screens
If you are on a smaller computer display, composing and editing posts and pages can be a bit tricky as some of the page elements may overlap each other. Here are two easy tricks you can use to make everything fit.
Why Won’t You Install “x” Plugin or Theme
… You just opened a can… Professional, Consistent and Supportable This is what we are after with our sites. When you are looking at your site and we are looking at 5,000 potential sites, our perspectives are going to be different. This first section, “The Computing Services Perspective” will get us on the same page. […]
Using video on your wordpress site
Uploading video into your wordpress site can seem trickier than it should be. One of the biggest reasons for this is that the audio or video format that you saved to is incompatible with the flash video player in WordPress. This video demonstrates how to re-encode your videos easily to a format that will work […]
Categories: I’ve added them… but where are they?
You can use the “Categories” section in WordPress to create has many categories and nested categories as you wish, but you may notice that if you return to your site you will find little evidence of them. The reason for this is that WordPress does not display categories on your site that have no posts […]
Pasting from Word? Please view this…
It’s come to my attention that if you paste from Microsoft Word directly into WordPress WITHOUT using the “Paste from Word” button in WordPress, that Internet Explorer users on Windows are unable to view your content. The simple solution is to always use “Paste from Word” when you are pasting in your text.
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