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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…

How I Created the Background You See Here

If you look at this blog, you’ll notice that the main background is a picture of stones under blue water, but that the background of the central content area has a white overcast to it. It sets off the content without being too distracting, because it’s the same picture. First, I downloaded the picture from …read more…

If You Change Something and Nothing Happens

A while back, I posted this on the Graphene support forum. I want to expand on some of those points a little bit here. I read a lot of forum threads where someone says “I tried that and nothing changed.” Occam’s razor tells us to try the simplest things first. If you change something, like …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…