Carolyn E. Cooper Communications » Wordpress

Beginner’s Guide to WordPress 101

carolyn — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:56:25 +0000

Rather than create a print version of my Beginner’s Guide to WordPress series, I decided to start creating a series of videos that go along with the WordPress 101 Workshop I teach. So below are the initial WordPress how-to video tutorials. You can also download a visual crib sheet to the editing buttons here: Beginner’s [...]

Recommended WordPress Plugins

carolyn — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 07:30:43 +0000

Several times I’ve had folks ask what plugins I recommend. Well, there is no single list that works for everybody. There are a couple of plugins I believe everyone should use and then there are the ones that I use a lot with projects and clients.

Let me also make a pitch for making donation [...]

Safe WordPress Upgrades and Technical Troubleshooting Techniques

carolyn — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:18:21 +0000

I spent a couple of hours the other night helping a friend de-bug a WordPress 3.0 failure on a website. She had recently upgraded to WordPress 3.0 and discovered the tag function on one of her sites no longer worked. My area of technical knowledge is different from hers, so she sent out an SOS.

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WordPress 3.0 Tags Function Conflict With Headspace 2

carolyn — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:56:07 +0000

I just spent a couple of hours helping a friend de-bug a WordPress 3.0 failure on one of her websites. The tags functionality on her posts stopped working after she had upgraded to WordPress 3.0. It turns out there is a compatibility issue between WordPress 3.0 and the Headspace 2 plugin at this time (June, [...]

Choosing a Web Hosting Service

carolyn — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:10:00 +0000

I think the number one question I’m asked is “Which web hosting service should I use?”

And then I get the “Well, this guy told me I should use —” or “I’ve tried 3, 4, 5 web services and they all were awful.” This is usually followed by detailed description of how the person was [...]

Beginner’s Guide to WordPress 2.9 Is Now Available for Download

carolyn — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:25:05 +0000

Huzzah! I’ve finally gotten to Beginner’s Guide to WordPress, a simple, step-by-step training tutorial for new WordPress users, updated to version 2.9. And yes, you can still download it for free. You can even give it to students or clients with the Use Guidelines listed below. Downloading or copying the guide constitutes agreement to [...]

How the Background Color of Images Can Be Changed

carolyn — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:38:53 +0000

Hi Carolyn;
Your tutorial is the simplest and easiest I’ve seen yet.

What I would like to do is change the entire background of all the images that appear on the page.

The theme base isn’t something I need changing so much but all the image backgrounds and logo are what I [...]

Making Money Online for Everyone

carolyn — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:17:08 +0000

Say what you will about the Newsweek slipping in its standards for political and general news reporting (and I certainly do at times), it still produces fine writing on business and social trends. Here’s a wonderfully insightful article the buyout of Mint.com, a small 2007 start-up, by Intuit, makers of Quicken [...]

How To Change Your WordPress Background Image

carolyn — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:32:10 +0000

hi, thanks so much for the tutorial above. I have a further question on the same lines. I figured out how to change the color, but i want to change the background color to an imge that is on my desktop, a jpg file saved on my desktop. I havent been able to figure out [...]

How to get rid of the blog title and description in the WordPress header

carolyn — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:46:13 +0000

Thanks for you very helpful tips and informative answers to questions. I am in the very early stages of building my WordPress blog and with your help I was successful in replacing the default header with my own. The problem I now face is that my new header contains my blog title, so I want [...]