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Removing the Headline Area from Thesis Theme

January 21, 2010

  One thing I don’t love about the Thesis Theme for WordPress is the page headlines. Usually when creating static pages, I’d rather not have the page headings appear ( i.e. – Home, Contact, etc. ). They’re not always bad, but the “Home” one always annoys me, and is kind of a giveaway that you’re [...]

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6 MORE Great Starter Plugins for WordPress

September 9, 2009

A while back I put together a quick list of some of my favorite Plugins to install when you’re getting started with WordPress.  After spending some more time with WordPress, I have more I’d like to add to the discussion.  Most of these are pretty basic, and would be helpful for most blogs. Useful WordPress [...]

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Moving a Website & Changing Nameservers

August 18, 2009

This week was another web ‘first’ for me.  I moved this site to a new host!  It really wasn’t very complicated, but I ran into a few speed-bumps.  I’ll run through a few things I had to do. There were 2 major obstacles for me.  First off, I’m running WordPress for this blog, and needed [...]

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Basic Tweaks for the Thesis Theme Round 1

July 16, 2009

I’ve done enough reading to know that while the learning curve for the Thesis WordPress theme may be a little bit steep, it’s worth it in the end.  I’ve also read that once you ‘get’ it, it’s easy to make new changes in the future. I’m still at the head scratching phase, but I’ll document [...]

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WordPress, and Drinking the Thesis Theme Kool Aid

June 16, 2009

6 months ago I would have thought the idea of purchasing a WordPress theme was pretty inane.  I’m by no means a great designer, but I’ve been able to toss together sites, or tweak existing themes to meet my needs. I recently learned of the Thesis Theme.  Turns out there are a LOT of blogs [...]

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Blog Comment Graphics, or Gravatars

February 8, 2009

If you’re a rookie blog commenter, you might wonder how some people get custom icons next to their comments, while others do not.  It’s actually really simple!  Those little pictures are called Gravatars, a condensation of Globally Recognized Avatars.  A Gravatar is an avatar image that follows you from blog to blog, appearing beside your [...]

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2009: My Year to Discover Social Media.

January 15, 2009

After starting two new online communities in 2008, I became really interested in other forms of Social Media.  I feel like that term is already getting overused, but for the sake of this post I’m running with it.  In 2008 I moved on from MySpace and started a Facebook.  In a short amount of time [...]

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