A common problem that you can experience when trying to upgrade or add a plugin automatically in WordPress is when WordPress cannot access the filesystem directly. It results in a message similar to this: “To perform the requested action, connection information is required.” WordPress requires you to enter your FTP information. I discovered a few useful posts regarding this issue. Here is good one with an explanation on Why WordPress asks for this information by [...]
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The latest version of the WordPress software — 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt, is now available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard. WordPress has had over 65 million downloads since version 3.0 was released, and in this third major iteration the WordPress team has added significant polish around the new user experience, navigation, uploading, and imports. Check out this short video that summarizes the new updates: [...]
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Whenever I’ve needed to add a form to a WordPress page, I’ve used either Contact Form 7 or the Secure Form Mailer plugin. I’ve found they both work well. I have had some problems in the past with Contact Form 7 not sending the notification after a form has been submitted. But overall they seem to work fine. Gravity Forms Just recently, I wanted to update a contact form on one of my sites, and [...]
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Here’s a little known feature built into WordPress that many people may not be aware of. When you’re using the image uploader to upload pictures to your blog posts, you’ll notice that the image is automatically resized into three different sizes: Thumbnail, Medium and Large. But what if the “Large” size is too wide to fit perfectly across the width of your content area? Set maximum width of uploaded images in WordPress Did you know [...]
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I’ve had a number of my food blog clients ask me about the Google’s “Recipe View” in the search results. Google is indexing recipes from food blogs that comply with certain formatting rules and then serving up the results under a section called “Recipes.” In order to have your recipe show up in these search results, the recipe must be formatted in a very specific way and each part of the recipe needs to get [...]
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WordPress 3.2 was just released and if you experienced a problem with upgrading it was most likely caused by the fact that your host is running an outdated version of MySQL. WordPress 3.2 requires that your web server be running not only PHP 5.2.4 or higher, but also MySQL 5.0 or higher. There’s a good chance that your web host has already upgraded to the latest MySQL version, but I experienced an issue with Media [...]
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WordPress recently released a Beta version of WordPress 3.2, the latest and upcoming release of WordPress. The final 3.2 version should be released at the end of June, but that may also be subject to change. Since this is a Beta release, it’s best to set it up on a development environment and not your live site. You can then preview and test some of the new features. What’s New in WordPress 3.2 Here are [...]
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I decided to attend WordCamp Orange County this weekend to see what I could learn and also to network with other WordPress peeps in my area. I usually don’t venture out from my little web design island, but I’m really pleased I did. Aside from meeting some cool people from the local WP community as well as a few key WordPress players, I also learned some new things. Here’s a summary of some random things [...]
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As a reader of this blog, you are most likely running your own blogs or websites and are learning everything you can to maximize your success. Whether you’re blogging for fun or profit, it makes sense to learn from others who have already achieved success with blogging. As a web designer, I am fortunate to work with individuals and businesses in many different niches and industries. Some of my clients have already achieved great success [...]
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Here’s an interesting one. You might have seen some navigation menus around where the page titles have a second line of text below the title. It’s usually done to show the main page title, and then some sort of sub title or secondary text on a second line under the main page title. So how can we accomplish this? Upon first glance, it seems that the logical solution would be to add a line break [...]
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