If you’re a “do it yourself” kind of person, or if you are afraid to move to WordPress but can’t afford to hire someone to do it for you, this post is for you! I’m going to walk you through how to move your blog […]
Tag: Tutorial
How to Make Mini-Series Banners
Charlotte from Thoughts and Pens requested a tutorial on how to make mini-series banners. Here’s an example of what we’ll be making: Let’s get started! Requirements Photoshop – You may be able to use another image editing program, but for this tutorial I am using […]
How to Link to Sections Within a Post
If you like to neatly organize your posts into “section”, then listen up! Hey, Ashley. So, this is reeeaaaally embarrassing for me because I consider myself pretty computer/coding savvy, and I totally used to know how to do this, but I seem to have forgotten […]
How to Add a Drop Down Menu Navigation in Blogger
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! […]
How to Make a WordPress Child Theme (and why you should)
We have a great question this week for all you who are using pre-made WordPress themes! What are the benefits of using WordPress child themes? I’m afraid to try to tweak my “functions” or “themes” files. Is there an easy way to make a child […]
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 Backup and Restore Your WordPress Blog
This week we have a question about how to backup and restore your WordPress blog. It’s extremely important that all bloggers backup their sites! There are many ways to do it (some easier than others), but it’s better to be safe than sorry! Here is […]
Tutorial: How to Set Up Your Blog With MyMail & Amazon SES
Update: 5 April 2016: Since writing this article, MyMail has been replaced with Mailster. This article may no longer be relevant to the new Mailster plugin. I haven’t personally used the new version myself so I can’t vouch for it one way or another. The […]
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 […]