Category Archives: General How-To

How to upload an image to your WordPress media library

This is a short video tutorial showing WordPress users how to upload an image to their WordPress media library. For more WordPress video tutorials, visit Cat’s YouTube Channel.

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

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

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 Test Drive plugin, you can start working on a … Continue reading

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How to discover image dimensions using Firefox and Web Developer Tools

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)

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

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

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.

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

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)?

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

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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