Posts contained in the “Using WordPress” category:

WordPress is easy to use and well documented. These tutorials provide a visual guide to some of WordPress’s less common functions and to those which you really need to see in action to fully understand.

Test Post from Windows LiveWriter

This is a sample picture. I can’t figure out how to set it as the featured image…yet. Results I see a question every now and then about using Windows Live Writer on the Graphene Forum, so I thought I would give it a try. I’m not satisfied with my admittedly hasty trial. The main point …read more…

Fun With Text Widgets, Part One

One of the great things about WordPress is that you can add a text widget to any place on your blog that handles widgets. You can add just about any text or HTML you want, including bits of JavaScript and certain types of iframes. (One thing a text widget won’t handle is PHP. I don’t …read more…

Adding a Short Code to a Child Theme

For some time, I’ve wanted to add the ability to change the font size of a selected portion of a post, as if I were adding a footnote. Wil Wheaton does this a lot and it’s kind of cool and very handy. I’ve had some small success doing this. I added this to my child …read more…

Creating a Child Theme for this Blog

  Earlier, I posted the custom CSS that I use on this blog, with the idea that others might want to see how I accomplished certain tasks. In that post, I noted that my custom CSS (which is the vast majority of the changes I have made) was getting so extensive that it was getting …read more…

Pages or Posts?

I sometimes run into folks who have a hard time understanding the difference between pages and posts and how they act on a WordPress blog. Let’s start with what the Codex says: In WordPress, you can write either posts or pages. When you’re writing a regular blog entry, you write a post. Posts automatically appear …read more…

Create Custom Menus in WordPress

In order to talk about a custom menu, we should first talk about what a “default menu” is. In many themes, a “default menu” of your pages will show up somewhere around the top of each page or post. Depending on the menu’s functions, you may or may not have any control over how these …read more…