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WordPress 3.9 Feature Updates
WordPress 3.9 will be out in a few weeks, and it’s really exciting to see all the new features that will make adding galleries and content easier than ever before. So here’s a sneak peak at my favorite features. WordPress Native Gallery Preview Features While there are some great gallery plugins, and some not-so-great, the…
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Decorative Borders with only CSS and No Images
This tutorial is a bit of fun and shows you how to create chain link and beaded decorative borders and backgrounds for your HTML or WordPress website using only CSS and no images which can mean faster loading times for your website. All the CSS can be added to your child theme style.css or to…
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Add via @username to Twitter Button in Jetpack Sharing
There are a number of popular social share plugins that add buttons to your WordPress posts to make it easy for people to share your content. I prefer a horizontal sharing bar, and my two favorite sharing plugins are Floating Social Bar and the Sharing module in Jetpack or Slim Jetpack. In your posts, the Floating Social Bar and Jetpack…
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How to Safely Edit Your WordPress Theme Files
Sooner or later you might want to make a change to your WordPress website or blog that will require editing your child theme files. You may want to change the color of a link or a button, or you need to add a landing page template file, or you just want to change some text…
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Add a MailChimp Signup Form to Your WordPress Website without a Plugin
It’s easy to add a MailChimp Signup form to your WordPress blog or website to collect names for your email list without using a plugin. For a lot of themes, the form will just blend in with your theme. Look at how the form will look in the default WordPress themes – Twenty Twelve, Twenty…
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Remove Border on WordPress Gallery Images
WordPress automatically adds a border around all gallery images with inline styles on the page from the gallery shortcode. There are a number of ways to remove the borders, if you decide you want a more subtle look for your website galleries. This tutorial shows you how to remove the borders using CSS for the…
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How to Get Larger Images in a WordPress Gallery
If your website uses WordPress image galleries, you may want to show images at a size larger than thumbnails in the gallery because the default size is rather small. There are several methods to get larger images in your WordPress galleries. Contents All About – All About WordPress Media Settings and Gallery Defaults Method 1…
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Custom CSS with Jetpack for WordPress Website Design
Note: You no longer need the Jetpack plugin to use Custom CSS. It’s now included in the WordPress Customizer. The Jetpack plugin now has a Custom CSS module for you to use to edit your WordPress Website theme. This means that you can customize your website design very easily, and more importantly, safely. Any changes…
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How to Use Google Web Fonts in Your WordPress Website
It’s easy to use Google web fonts in your WordPress website. Google currently has over 500 free fonts in their web fonts library. There are all types from classic to handwritten with lots to choose from in between. The easiest way to use Google fonts in your WordPress website is to use a plugin. I tried…
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How to Customize Your WordPress Website Header
The default WordPress themes have some beautiful images to choose for the header, but if you want to customize your WordPress Website header image to match your custom background, here’s how to do it. Previous versions of WordPress did allow you to change your website header image, but you had to resize the image on…
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Get Started with the Jetpack WordPress Plugin
The Jetpack WordPress plugin is a set of plugins developed by Atomattic for WordPress.com blogs, but now available to WordPress.org websites, as well. Jetpack will cover many of your small business WordPress plugin needs. As of this writing, Jetpack is about a year old and has grown from just a few to fourteen separate features;…
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How to Change the Background of Your WordPress Website or Blog
With the latest WordPress (3.4), you are able to quickly and easily make style changes to your WordPress website or blog. This works for wordpress.com blogs or wordpress.org (self-hosted) websites. If you don’t see these options in your theme, you can use the default Twenty Ten or Twenty Eleven themes. This post uses Twenty Ten,…
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Amethyst Website Design is a small business owned by Marcy Díaz. I help people, like you, with your website by creating an affordable WordPress website using Genesis themes to fit your business and budget. I especially love working with new and small business owners, and can help you with the online part of your business.
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