CashTrix » free http://www.cashtrix.com Financial Crisis Reports - Survival Tips - Online Cash Tricks Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:39:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Two Essential WordPress Plugins http://www.cashtrix.com/two-essential-wordpress-plugins/ http://www.cashtrix.com/two-essential-wordpress-plugins/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:09:03 +0000 Stefan http://www.cashtrix.com/?p=25 As I told you earlier, I am impressed with Wordpress 2.7. This is one of the best publishing platforms out there and it's 100% free. In case you wanna try it out yourself, you can download it at the official wordpress site.

However, to be honest with you, there are a couple of things that I don't like about wordpress. But the beauty of it is that you can use wordpress' excellent flexibility to "change" what you don't like. "Yes Wordpress can!"

So what is it that I don't like and how did I fix it?

One thing that I definitely don't like about wordpress is that it automatically replaces "straight quotes" with curly quotes (amongst other things). Wordpress texturizes special characters for easier reading, but the result doesn't look good when you look at the source code (think search engine wise), and it's a pain in the butt if you try to share some programming code or if you try to paste some copied texturized text.

The solution?
A simple and free plugin written by Jason Litka called disable wptexturize. Download it and upload it via FTP to your plugin-folder:
your domain » wp-content » plugins.
Then activate the plugin via your wordpress dashboard. Click on plugins and find "disable wptexturize". Voila!

Now let's move on to the second wordpress feature I don't like: revisions and autosave. Each time you change something in your post, wordpress automatically saves a copy of the previous post version so that you can easily undo the changes you made (a revision).

Now this gets really annoying after a while, especially when you use the google toolbar as your primary spell checker. Google underlines the words it doesn't recognize and wordpress sees the underlining as a change, so it makes a copy, etc...

You can easily disable revisions and autosave by installing and activating a free plugin called... disable revisions and autosave. It was written by Exper Giovanni Rubaltelli and it works flawlessly.

]]> http://www.cashtrix.com/two-essential-wordpress-plugins/feed/ 0 How To Install a WP Theme http://www.cashtrix.com/how-to-install-a-wp-theme/ http://www.cashtrix.com/how-to-install-a-wp-theme/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:59:03 +0000 Stefan http://www.cashtrix.com/?p=22 I just installed WordPress 2.7 and I am very impressed with the new layout of the dashboard. It's completely different from previous wordpress versions. The navigation buttons are on the left-hand side of the screen now, and although it took me some time to get used to it, I like it.

WordPress always comes with the default theme, so the first thing I did was getting a nicer wordpress theme. A wordpress theme is like a template and it gives shape to the looks and feels of your WordPress site.

Where to get WordPress Themes?
There are many excellent themes out there and many are completely free. Some theme builders sell their themes. Themes that are for sale are called "premium themes". You can download some of the best free and/or premium WordPress Themes at these places:

How to install a theme?
To install a theme, unzip the one you downloaded and upload the complete folder to your wordpress themes directory. You have access to that directory via FTP under: your domain » wp-content » themes

Now log in to your wordpress admin area (dashboard), click on "Appearance" and click on the theme you want to preview. To install your selected theme, click "activate" (upper right corner).

Voila!

P.S. Did you know you can earn some good cash with premium themes? Watch the upcoming posts!

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