Comments for The WPDojo http://thewpdojo.com Premium WordPress Training and Community Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:34:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on The Art of the WordPress Post by Anthony http://thewpdojo.com/wordpress-post-art/#comment-131 Anthony Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:34:10 +0000 http://thewpdojo.com/?p=1296#comment-131 Hey James! Just about every well-programmed carousel has settings that will allow you to do that. With the simpler ones, you may have to edit the code, but the better ones like the <a target="_blank" href="http://ithemes.com/member/go.php?r=4084&i=l57" title="See the DisplayBuddy Suite" rel="nofollow">DisplayBuddy Series</a> of plugins from <a href="http://ithemes.com/member/go.php?r=4084&i=l1" title="Visit iThemes on the Web" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">iThemes</a> have settings that control timing, URLs, and all kinds of options. Since there are so many carousel plugins out there I can't say off the bat how to help you with your particular site, but let me know which carousel you are using (maybe leave the link of the plugin from the WordPress plugin Repository) and I'll see what the options are. Leave a link to your site too... would love to see what you are doing with WordPress! -Anthony Hey James!
Just about every well-programmed carousel has settings that will allow you to do that. With the simpler ones, you may have to edit the code, but the better ones like the DisplayBuddy Series of plugins from iThemes have settings that control timing, URLs, and all kinds of options.
Since there are so many carousel plugins out there I can’t say off the bat how to help you with your particular site, but let me know which carousel you are using (maybe leave the link of the plugin from the WordPress plugin Repository) and I’ll see what the options are.
Leave a link to your site too… would love to see what you are doing with WordPress!
-Anthony

]]> Comment on The Art of the WordPress Post by Anthony http://thewpdojo.com/wordpress-post-art/#comment-130 Anthony Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:23:46 +0000 http://thewpdojo.com/?p=1296#comment-130 Hey James! Setting a background image is easy - in your WordPress theme folder, there is a file called style.css. That's your theme Stylesheet. You need to upload an image to your website and tell the stylesheet to use it. Here's a quick set of steps: <ol> <li>Find a background you would like to use and upload it to your media library.</li> <li>Once you upload it, copy the URL of the file</li> <li>Now you need to edit your stylesheet. Select Appearance...Editor from the Admin Bar.</li> <li>Once you are in there, it should default to your stylesheet file: style.css. If it does not, select it from the list of theme files on the left.</li> <li>Look for the section that begins with "body" and add the following line in it on a new line between the curly brackets: <code>background: url("THE-URL-OF-YOUR-IMAGE");</code></li> <li>Save the file</li> </ol> Once you save the file you can refresh your website in the browser, the stylesheet will reload, ad you will have your new background! When you get your image loaded, leave a link so we can take a look! -Anthony Hey James!
Setting a background image is easy – in your WordPress theme folder, there is a file called style.css. That’s your theme Stylesheet. You need to upload an image to your website and tell the stylesheet to use it. Here’s a quick set of steps:

  1. Find a background you would like to use and upload it to your media library.
  2. Once you upload it, copy the URL of the file
  3. Now you need to edit your stylesheet. Select Appearance…Editor from the Admin Bar.
  4. Once you are in there, it should default to your stylesheet file: style.css. If it does not, select it from the list of theme files on the left.
  5. Look for the section that begins with “body” and add the following line in it on a new line between the curly brackets: background: url("THE-URL-OF-YOUR-IMAGE");
  6. Save the file

Once you save the file you can refresh your website in the browser, the stylesheet will reload, ad you will have your new background!

When you get your image loaded, leave a link so we can take a look!

-Anthony

]]> Comment on The Art of the WordPress Post by James Casper http://thewpdojo.com/wordpress-post-art/#comment-128 James Casper Sat, 24 Mar 2012 03:58:22 +0000 http://thewpdojo.com/?p=1296#comment-128 Finding somewhere that I could select from a library of pictures to have as my background in the wordpress site. That way when someone clicks onto my site they have an excellent looking blog that looks like a professional website. Finding somewhere that I could select from a library of pictures to have as my background in the wordpress site. That way when someone clicks onto my site they have an excellent looking blog that looks like a professional website.

]]> Comment on The Art of the WordPress Post by James Casper http://thewpdojo.com/wordpress-post-art/#comment-127 James Casper Sat, 24 Mar 2012 03:56:08 +0000 http://thewpdojo.com/?p=1296#comment-127 I have a carousel on my wordpress site that works well. Only I would like to have one that will allow me to select the time between rotation of each picture item. Another thing that would be a great ability to improve the carousel would be if I could attach a link to each picture so when a visitor clicks the picture they are taken to information about that picture. I have a carousel on my wordpress site that works well. Only I would like to have one that will allow me to select the time between rotation of each picture item. Another thing that would be a great ability to improve the carousel would be if I could attach a link to each picture so when a visitor clicks the picture they are taken to information about that picture.

]]> Comment on WordPress Backup and Disaster Recovery by Anthony http://thewpdojo.com/wordpress-backup-disaster-recovery/#comment-116 Anthony Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:48:31 +0000 http://thewpdojo.com/?p=1271#comment-116 Leave a comment below and let's see your Gravatar. Welcome to TheWPDojo! -Anthony Leave a comment below and let’s see your Gravatar. Welcome to TheWPDojo!

-Anthony

]]> Comment on Upgrading an HTML Website to WordPress by Kristie Hewlett http://thewpdojo.com/upgrading-html-website-to-wordpress/#comment-113 Kristie Hewlett Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:43:53 +0000 http://thewpdojo.com/?p=1211#comment-113 I have never converted an HTML site into a Wordpress site. I am looking forward to this series. Kristie http://www.gastoniaonline.com I have never converted an HTML site into a WordPress site. I am looking forward to this series.
Kristie
http://www.gastoniaonline.com

]]> Comment on How To Install WordPress – A to Z by Anthony http://thewpdojo.com/how-to-install-wordpress-a-to-z/#comment-61 Anthony Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:42:30 +0000 http://thewpdojo.com/how-to-install-wordpress-a-to-z/#comment-61 Hey Brian! Indeed, Performance tuning and testing is on the list of curriculum at TheWPDojo. It's a very important topic! You should have just received the <a target="_blank" href="http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=4cad82dbcd49855265b97371c&id=f09c002534" rel="nofollow">November WPDojo Newsletter</a> in which I outlined three new series I will be writing. That sounds like a great Brown Belt / Black Belt series to start right after those three conclude. Performance is an important factor in Google Search rankings as well as your hosting performance - if your site is slow, Google won't rank you as high. If your site takes up too many resources, your host will get a little cranky at you, and even shut down your account if it is impacting other sites on a shared server. So for medium-to-large trafficked sites, managing Page load Speed and how to improve it are important skills to have. Thanks for your comment, and thanks for joining TheWPDojo! Be sure to <a href="http://thewpdojo.com/forum/introduce-yourself/" rel="nofollow">introduce yourself</a> on the forum and let us know what kind of work you are doing and what you hope to learn! -Anthony Hey Brian!

Indeed, Performance tuning and testing is on the list of curriculum at TheWPDojo. It’s a very important topic!

You should have just received the November WPDojo Newsletter in which I outlined three new series I will be writing. That sounds like a great Brown Belt / Black Belt series to start right after those three conclude.

Performance is an important factor in Google Search rankings as well as your hosting performance – if your site is slow, Google won’t rank you as high. If your site takes up too many resources, your host will get a little cranky at you, and even shut down your account if it is impacting other sites on a shared server. So for medium-to-large trafficked sites, managing Page load Speed and how to improve it are important skills to have.

Thanks for your comment, and thanks for joining TheWPDojo!

Be sure to introduce yourself on the forum and let us know what kind of work you are doing and what you hope to learn!

-Anthony

]]> Comment on How To Install WordPress – A to Z by Brian Scott McFarlane http://thewpdojo.com/how-to-install-wordpress-a-to-z/#comment-60 Brian Scott McFarlane Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:31:37 +0000 http://thewpdojo.com/how-to-install-wordpress-a-to-z/#comment-60 Are you going to do anything on page load speed for WP? Are you going to do anything on page load speed for WP?

]]> Comment on How To Install WordPress – A to Z by Anthony http://thewpdojo.com/how-to-install-wordpress-a-to-z/#comment-29 Anthony Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:16:03 +0000 http://thewpdojo.com/how-to-install-wordpress-a-to-z/#comment-29 That's great! I'll keep an eye out for tips... I am on the shuttle headed toward the terminal headed to my own Mexico mission trip! Mañana! That’s great! I’ll keep an eye out for tips… I am on the shuttle headed toward the terminal headed to my own Mexico mission trip!

Mañana!

]]> Comment on How To Install WordPress – A to Z by Ozmann http://thewpdojo.com/how-to-install-wordpress-a-to-z/#comment-28 Ozmann Sat, 30 Jul 2011 02:36:09 +0000 http://thewpdojo.com/how-to-install-wordpress-a-to-z/#comment-28 Hey Anthony, The website is coming along well. I am making a few change (i.e. changing the background, the little things, and I wrote a little bit of a blog). I want to make a blog site and write about my "past" experiences in Mexico as a missionary so that I can hopefully be of some help to someone wondering what it's about. Even though it will be from a historical standpoint but still informative for someone looking and maybe help them to get some answers. L8R, Ozmann Hey Anthony,
The website is coming along well. I am making a few change (i.e. changing the background, the little things, and I wrote a little bit of a blog). I want to make a blog site and write about my “past” experiences in Mexico as a missionary so that I can hopefully be of some help to someone wondering what it’s about. Even though it will be from a historical standpoint but still informative for someone looking and maybe help them to get some answers.

L8R,
Ozmann

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