If you have a commercial website that uses WordPress, you have probably given a great deal of thought as to the best WordPress theme to use. Every business has its own unique needs and finding a theme that is not only professional looking, but meets the demands of your business will be extremely important. Fortunately, [...]

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I noticed some of my clients always create pages when they want to add content. Ideally you need to have both Pages and Posts. If your wordpress theme shows each page as a menu item at the top, your site will appear more like a business site, rather than a blog. This is handy, specially [...]

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It turned out to be easier that I thought to create a website in Arabic. Even if you have a WordPress site in English and want to convert it into Arabic is not a big deal, assuming that the theme you are using will support it. The key is making following 2 changes to your [...]

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It’s been a little while, since WordPress upgraded to 3.2 and now even 3.2.1 is out. I have already upgraded a good number of websites with no issues so far. First double check that your hosting provider has PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL database version 5.0 or higher. Those are now the minimum requirements for the [...]

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I knew about the Sliding Door Image menu from the sliding doors wordpress theme. I like the theme design layout, but don’t like dark background in general. So, I was thinking of using the theme and change the background color and the font colors, basically reversing the colors to begin with. The easiest way to [...]

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If you’ve been blogging for a while, you might have noticed or maybe are bothered that the archives list is getting too large. Every month a new entry is added and it will keep growing as you publish more posts. I have seen some blog themes implement a drop-down for the archive listing, but I [...]

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WordPress version 3.0.4 is out and is rated as “critical”, meaning you should make the effort to upgrade. I know this is a short notice before the year-end, but if you have a recent version, the upgrade should go seamless. This is a security upgrade that should protect your site against Cross-site Scripting vulnerabilities (XSS). [...]

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I found Atahualpa when looking for a WordPress theme. What is really unique about it, is the flexibility of customizing the layout of the site appearance from the admin interface. The developers of this theme put a lot of effort in allowing you to customize every detail of the page from the header to the [...]

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If you don’t setup the permalinks on your site, the url would just have a number to point to a certain article. The good news is that you can easily change the look of your urls to your liking. As a side effect your pages can get better ranking in the search engines, but be [...]

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I use gimp to edit or create images. Lately I got an email asking: how can I change the background color an images, so it can better blend on any background on my web page? I would change the color to transparent rather than a specific color and here is how I would do it: [...]

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