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The sidebar of a website, although traditionally used for navigation links and ads, can be used for any data you would like to place there. The most common use in WordPress is to display other posts links, archives, and categories for further navigation into the site. You can, however, use the sidebar to put anything Read More >

Default and older WordPress themes use nested lists to present their sidebar information. A nested list is simply a list of unordered items inside one another. A simple example of a nested list is below: Flowers Lilies Roses Dogs Boxer Poodle You may have your own nested lists you wish to add to your sidebar Read More >

Because WordPress is a blogging software, WordPress themes come default with blogging features. Many people use WordPress as a Content Management System, so the blogging features in WordPress are undesirable for those who want just a basic website. There is always more than one way to do this; however, this article will explain how throug Read More >

WordPress by default has comments enabled for most themes. The comments can be disabled in the WordPress Dashboard Settings > Discussion page; however, this does not remove the comments from the page entirely. What happens when the comments are disabled is, the site will display “Comments are closed”. Comments can be removed completely be Commenting Read More >

It’s best to test major changes on a duplicate WordPress website before doing so on a live website. There are multiple ways to accomplish this including the Softaculous Staging option or the TotalUpkeep Backup plugin. Below we’ll outline how to manually create a copy of a WordPress site for testing. Warning: This tutorial is made Read More >

In this article we’ll explain how you can clean up and remove spam comments from your WordPress database directly using phpMyAdmin. This is a bit more advanced than simply managing your comments in WordPress directly. A major benefit of doing it this way, is if you’re dealing with a large amount of spam comments mixed Read More >

In the recent release of WordPress 3.4 Beta 1, The WordPress development team has taken extra steps to improve the theme installation process. In this article, we’ll cover the the theme installation process and point out the differences between WordPress 3.4 and prior versions of WordPress. Term vs. Keyword This does not appear to be Read More >

The recent release of WordPress 3.4 Beta 1 includes a new feature referred to as Custom Header and Background Images from Media Library. When researching this further, we found that this new feature allows you to select an image from your Media Library as either your header or background image in WordPress 3.4. The screenshots Read More >

The Beta 1 version of WordPress 3.4 was just released, and one of the new items included is the Flexible Custom Header Sizes feature within WordPress themes. This new feature allows WordPress 3.4 users to easily upload header images. With prior versions of WordPress, themes required header images to be uploaded at a specific width Read More >

WordPress 3.4 Beta 1 was recently released and a new feature included is the Theme Customizer with Previewer. This tool combines several features already available, but helps tie everything into one easy to use tool. For example, instead of going to separate pages within your WordPress 3.4 dashboard to do things such as change your Read More >

The easiest way to install WordPress is to use Softaculous. Softaculous is an installation application that is free with select InMotion Hosting subscriptions. You can also manually install WordPress using the steps below. The installation process includes downloading the WordPress files, creating a database, and configuring the installation. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through Read More >