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 […]
Tag: Coding
How to add an Image Slider to Your Blogger Blog
Last updated: 4 December 2015. We have a great question this week from Kaina! All you Blogger folks listen up, because this one is just for you! I was just wondering since I have a blogger blog do you know of any good picture sliders […]
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 […]
Automatically Updating Giveaway Sidebar Widget
Consider checking out the Ultimate Book Blogger Plugin. It comes with this widget already integrated, plus much more! Requirements Must be using a self-hosted WordPress blogging platform. Must be able to upload new plugin files. Must have the Advanced Custom Fields plugin installed, and understand […]
Colour-Coding Posts Based on Status
I can’t take full credit for the below code. I found this snippit online somewhere and can’t remember the source! But it’s something I’ve been using for a while and I absolutely love it, so I thought I’d share. 🙂 Requirements Must be using a […]
Create an Automatically Updating Review Index by Year
Note: This is somewhat of an older method to create a review index. It still works 100%, but if you want a much better, more user-friendly way to do it, consider purchasing the Ultimate Book Blogger Plugin. It comes with this review index already installed, […]