Contact Form 7 is a superb plugin that I highly recommend during my Two and a Half Day Build your Website using WordPress programme. It is a great way to introduce the concepts of Plugins and Shortcodes. This post will provide instructions on how to configure the standard form. Contact Form Example Here is a screen grab of the contact… Read More »Configuring Contact Form 7 WordPress
This post outlines summary instructions to set up Pay with a Tweet – a cool WordPress plugin that facilitates you to request that a visitor to your site posts a standard tweet in order to download a document (pdf). There is no charge for the document hence the name Pay with a Tweet. It is an alternative to requesting an… Read More »Instructions to set up ‘Pay with a Tweet’ in WordPress
If you are wondering how you can embed an individual tweet in a WordPress page, post or widget – this article is for you. There are several elements to get right in integrating your Social media within WordPress. These include: displaying social icons linking to your accounts such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook; presenting a share bar; displaying posts from… Read More »How to embed an individual tweet in a WordPress blog or post?
Wondering how to create an animated GIF to enhance the Wow factor of your content. This is a short blogpost which presents an example of a simple animated GIF and explains step by step how it was created. I have used an animated GIF to present a short advert – the multiple frames catch the eye and allow a lot… Read More »How to add animated Gif to WordPress website?
This is a short blogpost which answers the question in the title: What colour is that on my website? by explaining how to add a tool referred to a browser extension to Firefox and Chrome which idenitifies the RGB or Hex colour code of any pixel displayed in your browser (on your website). Consistent use of colour is recommended… Read More »What colour is that on my website?
Welcome to the 3rd article in the series of Quick Hacks for WordPress. Post two addressed HTML and referred to CSS which stands for Cascading Style Sheets. This article will now provide a brief introduction to CSS in order to explain how you can use Custom CSS to make small changes to your WordPress Theme for instance prescribing the colours… Read More »Custom CSS for WordPress – A quick introduction
The wonderful thing about WordPress is that you no longer need to learn HTML to create a website. However it can be useful to know a little HTML and to know how the front end of WordPress takes care of all the HTML for you. What is HTML? Hypertext Markup Language, a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve… Read More »A quick explanation of Html for WordPress