I have been trying to create drop down menus in blogger like your blog has for your reviews. I have tried a couple different tutorials and nothing seems to be working. Do you know how to do this? Thanks so much for your help, Ashley! […]
Category: Coding
Introduction to CSS: Making Theme Changes
How to make theme changes I have a great question from Jessica to share with you guys! This one is about navigating stylesheets and making theme changes in WordPress: I feel like I know my way around WordPress pretty well, but the stylesheet scares me. […]
How to Add Google Friend Connect to Your WordPress Blog
Read My Disclaimer This tutorial is intended for people who are moving from Blogger to WordPress (or have recently moved) and are afraid of losing all their followers. I do NOT recommend WordPress users doing this if they don’t have a large following on Google […]
How to Display Excerpts on your Blog Homepage Instead of the Full Posts
This question is geared towards WordPress blogs. This week’s question is: I’d love a simplified tutorial on setting up a front page that automatically grabs the images and words from your recent posts with a read more button that takes readers to the whole post.. […]
How to Make Scrolling Images or Text
I received an excellent suggestion from Bree at Coffee Bean Bookshelf for a tutorial: how to make a marquee scrolling sidebar widget for images (also works for text). It’s a lot easier than you think! Here is the general code, which you can paste into […]
How to Hide Spoilers in Your Reviews – Alternative Method
Last week I went over how to hide spoilers in your reviews. I’ve found that the first method works quite well for small in-line spoilers, but any time you want to hide big chunks of text, things tend to get wonky (sometimes when you click […]
How to Hide Spoilers in Your Reviews (Blogger & WordPress!)
This week’s Bitchin’ Book Blog question is: Hey Ashley, I noticed that you have the ability to hide your spoilers in your reviews, I’m guessing by using a code. [..] I’m wondering if you can post a tutorial on how to go about doing this […]
How to Style Blockquotes
Did you ever wonder how people get that cool, stylized blockquote text for their book descriptions? Well I’m going to show you how! Everyone can do this, whether you’re using Blogger or WordPress! You will have to be comfortable editing your theme files, and knowing […]
Custom WordPress Login Page
Requirements Must be using a self-hosted WordPress platform. Must be able to edit your functions.php theme file (or create a new one if one does not already exist). Must have knowledge of CSS to create your own login page. What We’ll Be Creating Tired of […]
Custom Default Avatar for Comments
Requirements Must be using a self-hosted WordPress platform. Must be able to edit your functions.php theme file (or create a new one if one does not already exist). What We’ll Be Creating As you may know, on WordPress, in the “Discussion” settings, you have the […]