23 responses so far ↓

• 1 carolyn collins // Apr 11, 2009 at 4:30 pm

  Just learned something interesting… and way cool! the font size on the wp theme I chose is too small. It can be changed by putting your cursor on the page, holding down the cont key and rolling the mouse wheel! It works on lots of pages! Cool!
  carolyn

• 2 Tammy Smith // May 15, 2009 at 11:07 am

  Hi Jackie and Andrea,

  I was just wondering about the blogroll.
  Do we control what is seen in there? Right now on mine when viewing the blog it says, development blog, documentation, plugins, and some other stuff.

  What do we want to put in there?
  I have another website I thought of linking in there. But how?

  Thanks
  Tammy

• 3 Jackie and Andrea // May 15, 2009 at 11:10 am

  Hi Tammy -

  There’s very little on a WP blog that can’t be tweaked - cool huh?

  The blogroll is controlled by the ‘links’ section - you’ll see a tab for it on the left navigation in your dash.

  I generally delete those and start fresh.

  Andrea

• 4 Tammy Smith // May 15, 2009 at 11:19 am

  Thanks Andrea,

  So what do we mainly want to have in our blogroll?

  Tammy

• 5 Jackie and Andrea // May 15, 2009 at 11:33 am

  That depends on you and what you want out of this site.

  Doesn’t even have to be one

  Could be money links (to affiliate programs) - could be other sites of yours that are related - could be fellow site owners who you want to support.

  What’s your most wanted result for this site - answer that first and then put links (or don’t if it makes more sense) to whatever will get that for you.

  Andrea

• 6 Andrea Kalaydjian // May 25, 2009 at 3:13 am

  Hi Jackie and Andrea

  What is exactly the WP125 widget. Is this to add images to affiliate products? How do I add them.

  Or do I do them with the links to blogroll? I did them with the blogroll but they do not really look nice .

  Thanks
  Andrea

• 7 Andrea Kalaydjian // May 25, 2009 at 3:23 am

  Hi, Jackie and andrea

  I got it, WP125 is for ads. I did add them. So if I got an affiliate link is it better to add the ads with an image under ads, and leave the links for something else? Is that how it works, or there is no rule for this?

  Thanks
  Andrea

• 8 Jackie and Andrea // May 25, 2009 at 6:58 am

  Hi Andrea -

  You found the way to customize that plugin under settings, yeah? Since this is a niche site with a specific keyword intention - I would use the blogroll for the SE and the pictures for the reader.

  But no - there’s no hard and fast rule for this.

  This is still a niche site that has a single purpose - get the traffic and send it (happily) to the aff link - so anything that accomplishes that is a good thing.

  Andrea

• 9 Jay Hurwitz // Dec 16, 2009 at 7:25 am

  Hi ladies

  I am very nearly there on going live on a 17 page site that I am excited about.

  I have a “prettying up the site” question.

  I do not want the date to appear on each post, as the posts are static and I dont want them to appear to be dated.

  How do I remove the date from a Wordpress post?

• 10 Jay Hurwitz // Dec 16, 2009 at 1:28 pm

  Hi ladies

  Got another question.

  I have published my posts.

  They each show up in recent posts on the sidebar.

  None show up under categories in the sidebar, even though I ticked the appropriate category during the edit stage.

  The category names that I created appear under categories in the sidebar, but the individual posts do not appear under the category names.

  When I click on the category name, all the posts that assigned to that category appear, each with
  their full text. The full texts of each post appear as a long scroll - one after the other.

  I would welcome your thoughts about this.

  Thanks.

  Jay

• 11 Jackie and Andrea // Dec 16, 2009 at 2:21 pm

  Hi Jay -

  Hmm …

  The date part is something that has to be modified on the theme itself (a piece of the code needs to be commented out).

  I’m not sure how to make the article links appear on the sidebar sorted by category, but I’m sure there’s a plugin somewhere that could help with that.

  I would search Google for that.

  A lot of this can depend on the theme you choose - it’s generally easier to choose a theme that does what you want than it is to modify one.

  Thinking this kinda slides into the area of private coaching - if that’s something that you’re interested in pursuing, email us directly, it’s easier to know what’s going on by looking at what you’ve got set up in person.

  Hope that helps
  Andrea

• 12 Larry Pitman // May 3, 2010 at 10:26 am

  At the end of a post I get 2 or 3 lines of tags, which is sort of a distraction. Can the tags be suppressed or is there SEO value in displaying them?

• 13 Jackie and Andrea // May 3, 2010 at 10:32 am

  Can you be more specific about what you mean by “lines of tags”.

  Jackie

• 14 Larry Pitman // May 3, 2010 at 11:13 am

  Sorry….I see displayed at the bottom of my post all of the tags that I entered when I created the post, so it looks like this:

  Tags: diapers, cloth diapers, bumgenius cloth diapers, dispoable diapers, dirty diapers, clean diapers, washable diapers, scented diapers, infant diapers, toddler diapers, thick diapers, thin diapers

  From a reader’s perspective, I don’t see the value in displaying that info, as in it’s a distraction.

• 15 Jackie and Andrea // May 3, 2010 at 12:32 pm

  You’ll need to go into your main index file (in themes -> editor) and delete this piece of code:

  <?php the_tags(‘Tags:’, ‘, ‘, ‘’); ?>

  You’ll then need to go in and do the same thing on the single post file as well.

  Jackie

• 16 Larry Pitman // May 3, 2010 at 6:08 pm

  No mention of tags in Main Index Template (index.php).

  This code….<?php the_tags( ‘Tags: ‘, ‘, ‘, ”); ?>….is in Single Post (single.php)

  This code….<?php the_tags(’Tags: ‘, ‘, ‘, ‘ is in Post.php (post.php)

• 17 Larry Pitman // May 3, 2010 at 6:12 pm

  Correction:

  No mention of tags in Main Index Template (index.php).

  This code….….is in Single Post (single.php)

  This code….<?php the_tags(’Tags: ‘, ‘, ‘, ”); ?>….is in Post.php (post.php)

• 18 Larry Pitman // May 3, 2010 at 11:28 pm

  Correction #2 - having a little trouble with this copy and paste thing….

  No mention of tags in Main Index Template (index.php).

  This code….….<?php the_tags( ‘Tags: ‘, ‘, ‘, ”); ?>….is in Single Post (single.php)

  This code….<?php the_tags(’Tags: ‘, ‘, ‘, ”); ?> is in Post.php (post.php)

• 19 Larry Pitman // May 3, 2010 at 11:30 pm

  ok….it’s not me….when I click submit, the code is changing….I’ll try an email

• 20 Gary Materra // May 31, 2010 at 12:52 pm

  When I add them, most widgets have a space to give them a title. Should I or just leave blank?

• 21 Jackie and Andrea // May 31, 2010 at 1:02 pm

  Whatever you like better. A lot of this stuff is just personal preference. You want to make navigation easy for your reader ~ you want them to be able to understand what it is they are reading… so if titles make it easier then use them… if they don’t, then don’t.

  Jackie

• 22 Gary Materra // Jun 8, 2010 at 11:22 pm

  Can you recommend a tracker mechanism for use with the niche blogs? I’ve heard that statcounter.com is pretty good and free for logging how and when people come to your site. I’ve tried it and seems a lil complicated…thanks!

• 23 Jackie and Andrea // Jun 9, 2010 at 5:07 am

  Hi Gary -

  You might find wp-stats to be user friendly:
  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-stats/

  And the other big guns one is Google Analytics.

  Hope this helps,
  Andrea