Archive for Lewis Smile
Add Things To Your Sidebar
Everything in your blog sidebar is in a widget.
A widget is like a little sidebar building block. And you can add as many as you like.
Here’s how:
1. Log in to your admin area
2. Hover over Appearance and click Widgets
3. You will now see something on the right side of the screen that looks something like [...]
How to add HTML to a post
Sometimes, when you’re writing a blog post, you want to add some HTML code.
Perhaps to:
Add a banner ad
How to add Stats and Anti Spam to your blog
NOTE: This tutorial is intended for those running the latest version of wordpress for their yournicheblog blog and for…
23Apr2009 | Lewis Smile | 0 comments | Continued
How To Add a Unique Thumbnail Image [those small square images on your blog homepage]
If you go to the homepage of your website you will see all the images next to each blog post preview. All those images are 100 pixels wide and 100 pixels high…
15Mar2009 | Lewis Smile | 0 comments | Continued
Edit/Remove The Google Ads In The Sidebar
This post may or may not apply to you. It probably won’t, but I wanted to get it published anyway. It depends on whether you provided me with the ad code in the original spec sheet…
14Mar2009 | Lewis Smile | Comments Off | Continued
What is Adsense?
Unless you are an Amish person you will have performed a Google search sometime recently. When you did, did you notice the ‘Sponsored Listings’ on the right side of the results page?
1Feb2009 | Lewis Smile | 1 comment | ContinuedHow to schedule posts for the future / Future-date posts for automation
Did you know that when you write a blog post you can set it to publish in the future, instead of publishing immediately?
And did you also know it is SO super easy?….
28Jan2009 | Lewis Smile | 0 comments | ContinuedHow to upgrade your blog to Wordpress 2.7
You may have heard already, but a couple of weeks ago wordpress released the next version of the Wordpress software. Version 2.7. Here is how to upgrade your blog to Wordpress 2.7…
15Jan2009 | Lewis Smile | 1 comment | Continued
How to exclude pages from the header and sidebar / How to make hidden pages
This tutorial will help you hide a page. Let’s say you want to create a page on your blog, but you don’t want it showing up in the list of pages in the header or sidebar….
18Dec2008 | Lewis Smile | 1 comment | Continued
The easiest way to add a YouTube video to a post
To embed a YouTube video into a post, you COULD go to youtube.com, find the video you want…
15Dec2008 | Lewis Smile | 0 comments | ContinuedHaving Fun With The Featured Articles Rotation
Your blog comes equipped with something really eye catching. The Featured Articles rotator. All you need to do to get a blog post to show up there is tick the ‘Featured’ category just before you publish your blog post….
18Aug2008 | Lewis Smile | 0 comments | Continued
Using the Batch Links Plugin
In your admin area you will have a plugin called Batch Links. You can get to it by hovering your mouse over Settings and clicking on BL….
18Aug2008 | Lewis Smile | 0 comments | Continued
How to change the color scheme of your blog
This is a How To that has been written bit by bit over a couple of weeks. Simply because it is so much longer, and I keep forgetting about it. So here it is. Once and for all!…..
15Aug2008 | Lewis Smile | 0 comments | Continued
How to Edit Your 4 x 125 Ads
Some of you guys have 4 small 125pixel ads in the sidebar of your blog. To EDIT what is shown there, just follow these instructions…
10Aug2008 | Lewis Smile | 0 comments | ContinuedHow to remove the category navigation from your header and put it in the sidebar instead
As you can see on your blog, and on this blog, there is a horizontal list of your blog categories just underneath the header. But hey! What if you don’t want it there! What if you want it in your sidebar instead?….
5Aug2008 | Lewis Smile | 0 comments | Continued
How to edit/change your header logo
There are two ways to change your header image.
Your header logo is most likely currently sitting in one particular location….
24Jul2008 | Lewis Smile | 0 comments | Continued
How to edit and add your auto-blogging RSS feeds
Some of you have a feature built in to your blog to publish blog posts automatically from RSS feeds from different sources. As it is right now you only have it if you specifically asked for it….
24Jul2008 | Lewis Smile | 2 comments | ContinuedHow to add an extra plugin to your blog
Firstly, what is a plugin? Wordpress is comprised of a whole bunch of ‘core files’. The basic files that run your blog. These core files shouldn’t really be edited. It’s not impossible, but if you make changes…
19Jul2008 | Lewis Smile | 2 comments | Continued
How to edit or delete the About This Author box on post pages
One of these features is the ‘About This Author’ box above all your blog posts. If you look at the homepage of your blog and click on the title of one of your latest blog posts you will see the…
16Jul2008 | Lewis Smile | 0 comments | Continued
How to edit your sidebar (ads, translations, welcome message, etc)
If you want to change anything in the sidebar of your blog, no problem! You don’t need to delve into complex code, and it’s….
11Jul2008 | Lewis Smile | 6 comments | ContinuedHow to Edit Any Sidebar Clickbank Product Link
If I have put a ClickBank product in the sidebar, then the following instructions will be needed. If not, you can ignore them since they do not apply to you!
1Jul2008 | Lewis Smile | 0 comments | ContinuedHow to write a new blog post
To write a new post on your blog, you must first log in. You can do this by clicking on the Login link in the bottom footer bar….
25Jun2008 | Lewis Smile | 0 comments | ContinuedHow to log in to your blog
This one is probably the easiest help post EVER. That’s why I’m posting it first….
25Jun2008 | Lewis Smile | 1 comment | Continued
