Removing the Self Links on the Home Page
On a web site, there is no need to have a link to the home page on the home page itself! (It makes no sense for a web page to link to itself). This is a commonly known usability guideline, yet nearly...
View ArticleModifying WP PageNavi Plugin
I wanted the navigation elements of WP-Pagenavi to be centered on the page, and the current page number to be above the previous – next navigation, and not have a box around it. In pagenavi.php, change...
View ArticleRemoving Menu Links to the Current Page
One of the fundamental usability guidelines is: never have a link that points to the current page – this confuses the user. (See Jakob Neilsen’s The Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines,...
View ArticleCreating a Web Site for My Church
I am creating a web site for my church, Flora First Christian Church, and am using WordPress as a CMS (Content Management System). WordPress’s excellent administration interface will make it...
View ArticleEmbedding a YouTube Video in WordPress
Here is how to embed a YouTube video in your WordPress blog or website. Copy the embed code for the video from the YouTube page. Switch to the “Code” mode of the WordPress editor and paste in the You...
View ArticleWonderful Merciful Savior
This embedded YouTube player has a playlist of some of my favorite recordings of this song. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet(function() {var s = document.createElement('SCRIPT'), s1 =...
View ArticleEmbedding a Flickr Slideshow in WordPress
Use the following code: <pre><object type=”text/html” data=”http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?user_id=uid@N03&set_id=sid” height=”500″ width=”500″> </object></pre>...
View ArticleAnother Test Slideshow
This is a test: Be Sociable, Share! Tweet(function() {var s = document.createElement('SCRIPT'), s1 = document.getElementsByTagName('SCRIPT')[0];s.type = 'text/javascript';s.async = true;s.src =...
View ArticleTest of an Embedded Picasa Slide Show
A Picassa slideshow can be embedded in a WordPress blog with no problems. The visual editor seems to work fine. All I did was to take the slideshow code provided by Picasa and insert it into the post...
View ArticleFlickr Embedded Slideshows in Internet (Windows) Explorer
The code given previously for a Flickr embedded slideshow does not work in Explorer 6 or 7. Use the following code instead: <pre><iframe...
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