WordPress Website Tutorial & Tips

Regardless of the type of website you have created, you will no doubt have already come across the need to position data in a grid-like fashion. HTML tables are perfect for presenting facts and figures in rows of columns.

When it comes to positioning images in a gallery like layout, you can use CSS to float graphics across the page and at some point I will include the code that shows you how to do this. And if you are keen to learn how to do so in the meantime, then you might find these 2 very popular books from Amazon quite useful; one is shown right and another at the bottom of this post. [Read more…]

There is nothing more frustrating than updating your site with the latest version of WordPress and then finding out that one of your plugins has stopped working because of a coding conflict. Then it is even more frustrating to find that the plugin has not subsequently been updated to accommodate the changes; that is, the revised version has not yet been released. But there is always help on hand, somewhere on the net, to get you out of trouble. [Read more…]

What options do you have for adding a shopping cart to a WordPress site?

Well it so happens that when it comes to finding the best WordPress shopping cart, you have a huge number of choices, 3 of which are listed in this post. Of the 3, 2 are plugins for WordPress and the 3rd is a suggested e-commerce solution from Woo themes. [Read more…]

WordPress to Go

How To Build A WordPress Website On Your Own Domain, From Scratch, Even If You Are A Complete Beginner

By Sarah McHarry

I come across a lot of people who start off with their own domain name and then they get an experienced developer to build their site for them using WordPress. At the end of the development stage they have their website but they don’t know how to edit it, how to modify it and generally how to be independent of the original web developer.

You don’t want to be in a position where you have to pay a developer for every page update that you need to make. Otherwise, you’ll end up with a site that is rarely updated and one that you have little or no control over and certainly one that is devoid of the creative excitement that comes with building your own site. A WordPress tutorial such as this can allow you to create your own website and/or modify it whenever you want and in the way that you want. [Read more…]

There are often many questions that people have about WordPress, often quite specific questions that don’t warrant a lengthy post to answer them. So this post is devoted to brief Q&A to address questions as they crop up or as they are asked by visitors to Website Tips 4U. 

So feel free to browse to see if there are answers to your particular questions. If you can’t find them in the list, feel free to leave your question in the comment section and either a reader or I will attempt to answer it for you. [Read more…]