Category Archives: General How-To

Load WordPress FAST with Dreamhost, Amazon CloudFront and W3 Total Cache Plugin

Posted on July 29, 2010 by CScholz

Turns out, my favorite Wordpress-friendly, green web hosting company, Dreamhost, is the first to roll out this powerful new feature: Amazon CloudFront integration for optimal Wordpress load time performance. Wordpress developers, here are the steps involved: Continue reading →

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Privately work on a new theme with this WordPress plugin

Posted on June 30, 2010 by CScholz

Have you discovered a new WordPress theme you would like to use on your site, but want to work on it privately until it’s ready for the world?  With this Theme Preview plugin, you can start working on a new … Continue reading →

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How to discover image dimensions using Firefox and Web Developer Tools

Posted on May 6, 2010 by CScholz

This tutorial shows you how to use the Firefox add-on, Web Developer Tools, to discover the image dimensions and  the URL and on a website.  You may need this kind of information to replace images that come with a WordPress … Continue reading →

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How to add audio to your Facebook Page (video tutorial)

Posted on April 26, 2010 by CScholz

Have you noticed streaming audio on Facebook lately?  Here is a video tutorial and a how-to guide on adding audio to your Facebook page: 1. Upload your .mp3 file to your media library through your WordPress backend. 2. Copy the … Continue reading →

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Add a Facebook “Like” button to your WordPress self-hosted blog

Posted on April 22, 2010 by CScholz

Now that Facebook is spreading out across websites all over the internet, you, too can join in on the connectivity by adding some code to your WordPress self-hosted website or blog.  With credit to Ruhani Rabin’s post, here’s how to … Continue reading →

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Video Tutorial: How to embed your YouTube video in your WordPress (self-hosted version) website/blog

Posted on March 12, 2010 by CScholz

Learn how to embed one of your YouTube videos on your WordPress website or blog with this simple video tutorial from Cat’s Web Weave. ***YouTube has changed the way you can navigate to the custom video players.  Use this link: … Continue reading →

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Class Preview Video: What will be covered in the Intro. to WordPress Class?

Posted on February 26, 2010 by CScholz

In this video, I briefly outline the subjects I will covering in my upcoming Introduction to WordPress class in Grass Valley, CA.

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Why use WordPress (self-hosted)?

Posted on February 25, 2010 by CScholz

There are many great reasons to use a self-hosted version of WordPress for developing your website and blog.  Here are my top 10: Google loves WordPress (and blogs in general) because search engines favor sites that have regularly created fresh … Continue reading →

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Sync your blog with your Facebook Page with Networked Blogs

Posted on December 9, 2009 by CScholz

Winter has arrived in the Sierra Foothills and being snowed/iced-in at my place has fostered a wonderful sense of stillness.  Between winter-wonderland walks, I have been working on my new music album and this valuable blog post on how to … Continue reading →

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Embed your YouTube Channel

Posted on December 2, 2009 by CScholz

Embedding your YouTube Channel on your WordPress site is easy if you know how to do it.  Let me save you the time it takes to figure it out by giving you these simple steps: 1) Log into your YouTube … Continue reading →

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