If you're like me you prefer installing WordPress upgrades manually as opposed to using your host's Fantastico service. I have seen too many botched installs/upgrades using automated processes like Fantastico that I just as soon stay away from using them. The other thing I don't like about it is that it takes seemingly forever for Fantastico to deliver the update to your host for you to use. Case in... continue reading
Back in April the world of WordPress was up in arms over the topic of 'sponsored themes'. I couldn't help but throw in my two cents by writing a story of my own in which I said, While I have no problem with sponsored themes it seems some others do referring to the practice as tacky. I see nothing tacky about it. Being a partisan political blogger this site has already oodles of external links including... continue reading
A topic I used to see frequently on BloggerForum and now appearing on the WordPress support forums is how to get text to wrap around an image. This is easily accomplished via CSS but I'll show you an even easier implementation for WordPress. I currently use a padding of 8px for images included in posts. First, add this to your style sheet, .alignleft{ float: left; border: none; padding: 8px; margin:... continue reading
