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WordPress Plugin: Pretty Pinterest Pins

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Monday, April 16th, 2012

Have you jumped onto the Pinterest craze? If so, this is the perfect plugin for you.

I have installed this on a few websites now and find it a fantastic plugin to use.  It’s easy, connects quickly to your Pinterest account and looks great on websites. Check it out for yourself!

Pretty Pinterest Pins

From the plugin page:

This plugin allows you to display thumbnails and links to yours (or anyones!) latest Pins from Pinterest in your sidebar. It is styled after Pinterest and offers a clean and modern look to show off your pins.

This widget is fully customizable, you can:

  • pull the latest pins from any Pinterest user
  • display only pins from specific boards
  • choose the number of pins to display
  • show or hide the image captions
  • display a “Follow me on Pinterest” button under your pins

Features:

  • Clean and Modern Look (like Pinterest)
  • Looks great on light and dark backgrounds
  • Captions scale and look nice with long or short text
  • Semantic HTML
  • Easy to Install: Simply add a Pinterest username and you’re good to go!

Have you installed this plugin?  Post back here and tell us what you think!

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Have you updated your WordPress lately?

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Thursday, April 28th, 2011

The latest version of WordPress offers something I’ve been wondering about for years – the ability to link to existing content from the link button.  Shocker!

This makes it so much easier to link your content to other pages on your site.   If you’re on a self-hosted version of WordPress, you can easily update from the link at the top of your dashboard that says: “wordpress 3.1.2 is available! Please update now.”  Click the “Please update now” and then choose Automatically update and voila! You’ll have the newest version.

The link ability will then automatically change when you’re ready to link a section of content.  As usual, highlight the content, hit the link button and click on the new line at the bottom of the window “Or link to existing content” — this will expand to show you the content you currently have.

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How Do I: Set up the Akismet plugin?

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Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

You have a new WordPress website, which immediately means you need to worry about spam in your comments. The easiest and fasted way is to activate the Akismet plugin that is included with every WordPress installation. There are just a few steps to getting Akismet to work, so here you go:

  • Sign up for a new user name/account at wordpress.com for a user name/account, not a blog. (Select the radio button that says “Just a username, please.”)  You need to do this in order to acquire an API Key, necessary for running Akismet.
  • Once you’re logged into your new account, in the upper left corner, click on “My Account.”
  • From the drop-down menu, choose “Global Dashboard”
  • From the menu on the left hand side, click on “Personal Settings.”
  • Your API Key will be at the top of the page.  Copy that key.
  • Go to your website wp-admin page and log in.
  • Click on plugins.
  • Activate Akismet.
  • You’ll see a note at the top of your screen saying that you need to enter info to make Akismet work. Click on that link.
  • Paste in the API Key you got from wordpress.com into the proper field and save changes.
  • Your Akismet is working and will filter spam in your comments.

Note:  The filter isn’t perfect.  You will see some comments make it through that resemble normal text.  Always check the email address before approving one of these comments. If it’s something that doesn’t look personal, it’s likely spam and you should delete it.

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A WordPress Plugin for Fonts

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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Use any font on your website, with just a few simple steps.

If you’ve ever tried to find an easy solution to bring your own fonts into your WordPress blog, you know it hasn’t existed… until now.  Recently, I found a premium plugin called Font Uploader, available through the Code Canyon website.   This plugin has already proven leaps and bounds easier than any others I’ve tried.   Rather than edit your php files, this allows you to set your fonts based on basic WordPress elements, such as Headers, Lists, Main Body.  But it goes beyond that — you have the ability to set your own fonts for specific CSS styles.

If you’re looking to add your own fonts to your site, this is the plugin for you.

A few tips to get you started

  • Purchase the plugin through the Code Canyon website. (For $12.00, it’s a steal in the amount of time it will save you.)  It’s not available in the WordPress extend site yet, to my knowledge.
  • Once you download it to your hard drive, you need to change the zip file and/or folder file name to remove the word “source” or it may not upload to your blog correctly.
  • This plugin works with all browsers, but Internet Explorer requires a different type of font to work: an eot file.  You’ll need to convert your ttf files into eot files and upload BOTH to enable your fonts on all browsers.  A great converter can be found here: http://ttf2eot.sebastiankippe.com/.

If you have problems or questions, refer to the plugin creator at Code Canyon — he’s incredibly helpful and timely in response.

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