To add a menu to the footer of the WordPress Twenty Eleven, Twenty Ten or other themes, you need to register an additional menu, create it, position it and style it. This is best done in a child theme as when the theme is updated then any changes you make are lost but if you have …
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Installing Piwik – Real Time Web Analytics – WordPress Joomla and Drupal
This is a tutorial on how to set up and install Piwik – an alternative to Google Analytics – with Piwik the data you have is stored on your server and not accessible by any other party. Piwik is an open source easy to use web analytical tool which provides stats in real time and …
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Extend the Twenty Eleven Theme Menu Navigation to FullScreen
How to get the WordPress Twenty Eleven Theme Main Menu Navigation to go full width screen like the page below. Both the CSS and ‘header.php‘ files need to be edited, the issue is that the theme is fluid and the ‘nav‘ div sits inside the div of the page which has a max-width of 1000px. …
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Changing WordPress SEO Plugins from Platinum SEO to Yoast SEO
Changing WordPress SEO OK the time has come to change my WordPress SEO plugin , I want to change over to use the Yoast SEO Plugin. I have been using Platinum SEO up until now, but I can’t help noticing more bells and whistles that the Yoast plugin comes with. The developer Joost de Valk …
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Delete Author and Date Information under WordPress Posts for the Twenty Ten Theme
Delete author and date credits under posts for the Twenty Ten WordPress theme – for rolling posts edit loop.php and for single page posts edit loop-single.php Comment out or (delete) twentyten_posted_on as below on the second line. <div class=”entry-meta”> <!– <?php twentyten_posted_on(); ?> –> </div> <!– .entry-meta –>
Stop Spam Subscriber New User Registrations on WordPress
If you have been getting a bunch of unwanted new user registrations on your WordPress website and are wondering what they are and where they are coming from, with such bogus email addresses mostly from the gmail.com domain like [email protected] do not fear, here’s what to do! It’s the spambots trawling through seeing where they can …
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Hiding the Meta Generator Tag in WordPress in the Header and RSS
How to hide the Meta Generator tag in the WordPress Header and RSS Feeds If you check the source code of your WordPress blog, in the header section you will see a meta tag named ‘generator‘ directly below the title tag: <meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress 3.4.2″ /> The purpose of the tag is to state the …
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WordPress Media Library and Updates Not Working in OSX
When creating a WordPress set up on OSX using the regular personal file sharing framework that OS X provides, the files are shared from the ~/Username/Sites directory. On an initial set up, the ownership of these files is set to the current logged in user whereas WordPress would prefer a different owner of the files. …
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