Comments on: More WordPress Questions? – Comments Are Closed

By: Mark McLaren

Mark McLaren — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 18:21:09 +0000

@Ozeal – Take a closer look at your custom menu settings and which items are part of the current main navigation on your site. It looks like http://indie-loop.com/poking-your-thoughts/ is actually a Page, not a post. If it’s a Page, it can’t be assigned to a category. Google “wp101 tutorials” and check out the excellent tutorials there which will help you set up custom menus and to get your categories, tags, pages and posts figured out. Then you can put them into your custom menu as you see fit.

Also, be sure to look at plugins like http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/ so you can add related posts to the sidebar or at the bottom of your posts. Giving visitors an easy way to find related content is essential to the success of your blog / website.

By: Ozeal

Ozeal — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 18:04:53 +0000

First off, I want to thank you immensely for the great content and awesome insight you provide us. Being new to the wordpress world, your help has been extremely helpful. Thank you. My question….

Every time I create a new posting. The post shows up on the homepage but not under the category on the site. How can I format the site for each posting to be saved under the right category? For ex: I created a post under “poking your thoughts”…it shows up on the home page but not under the category. You can preview this at http://www.indie-loop.com

Thanks in advance!

By: Mark McLaren

Mark McLaren — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:42:35 +0000

@Tim – This shows how to edit a sidebar.php file, which is very similar to editing the footer.php file. BE SURE TO SAVE A BACKUP OF YOUR ORIGINAL FILE BEFORE MAKING CHANGES. http://mcbuzz.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/wordpress-tutorial-how-to-make-changes-to-a-wordpress-theme-sidebar-file-using-a-text-editor/

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:00:59 +0000

Hey Mark
Dashboard foot line, which reads, “Thank you for creating with WordPress. • Documentation • Freedoms • Feedback • Credits “, messes up theme options, MORE IMPORTENTLY , the instillation of a commission junction plugin called, “ CJNIche”. I really want this cool plugin, however the foot line words overlap the “save settings” button and I can’t get it to work. Is there anyway to remove this dashboard foot line. Do you know anyone who has a video on how to do this. I would pay money to find out.

By: Mark McLaren

Mark McLaren — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:53:02 +0000

@George – See this tutorial on how to wrap text around an image in WordPress. Also check out the fine tutorials at http://wp101.com

By: George

George — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 19:06:39 +0000

Hello Mark,

I’m really excited i found your blog, it helped me a lot. I’m having a problem with designing my website. I saw the video WordPress Tutorial – Put Text Over Image – Image Behind Text but i want the images and text that i insert to be side by side and not above each other. Any solutions?

Thanks in advance.

By: Mark McLaren

Mark McLaren — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:59:59 +0000

@Kate Moore – Please show me a link to a site that does what you want to do. There are many ways to add social media buttons. If you want to add them at the end of your posts, I recommend http://sharethis.com They have a plugin for WordPress.

You might need different code in order to add a Facebook “Like” button, but check this post first:
http://blog.sharethis.com/2011/07/06/google-1-and-facebook-like-for-sharethis/
Here are some other options:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-like-button/
http://mashable.com/2010/05/07/wordpress-facebook-like-buttons/

Also check out Yoast
http://your-social-media-guy.posterous.com/social-buttons-adding-them-to-your-site-track
and while you are at it, consider adding a Google+1 button. Maybe ShareThis has +1 covered now. If so, you are in luck! It’s a good idea to keep current by adding a +1 button.

By: Kate Moore

Kate Moore — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:56:17 +0000

Hi Mark How do I make a facebook/twitter link? I just want people to be able to post us. THanks

By: Zack Herman

Zack Herman — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:51:36 +0000

Hey Mark,

I was hoping you could help me with my issue. All the blog posts look great in all browsers except for Internet Explorer. There seems to be a text wrap issue. In most browsers the text is on the left and the picture is on the right, which is the excerpt of the post. On IE8 it puts it on the left and right but on two different lines.

Please help!!

Thanks,

Zack

By: Mark McLaren

Mark McLaren — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:53:41 +0000

@Caren – By “saved drafts”, do you mean all the Post Revisions? I don’t think there is a way to get rid of those. They will not slow down your Dashboard. If you get tired of seeing them, click on the gray arrow in the top right of the Post Revisions box to close it.

Site speed is becoming more important as WordPress gets more popular and more complex as a content management system. I’m guessing that a slow Dashboard is most likely due to your choice of web hosts and web hosting plans. Some hosts are slower than others as are the low-end, inexpensive hosting plans. But there could be other factors involved. Who is your host?

If you Google “speed up wordpress”, you will find some useful posts like this one. Although most of these address the speed of your site in terms of the way it downloads for visitors, many of the same principles apply to your Dashboard speed, especially your web host and hosting package, the number of plugins you use, your choice of theme and database optimization.

I once used a theme for a client that not only made the Dashboard slow, it caused my browser to freeze completely! Needless to say, I stopped using it.

No worries about the missing ‘k’! As you can see, I fixed it. I’m very glad you like my site, and, by the way, if you like it a lot you can say thanks by including a link to it somewhere in one of your posts or in a sidebar.