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Favourite plugins 4: Wenderhost Subpages widget

I only found this plugin a few weeks ago, but it achieves something I’ve always thought WordPress was sorely missing.  In other, non-Wordpress based websites, it’s common to see a main navigation along the top of the web page, and a ‘sub’ navigation down one side of the page. Out of the box, WordPress does [...]
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Favourite plugins 3: My Category Order

I won’t spend long on this one: as you can guess from the title, it’s pretty similar to the My Page Order plugin, except that it allows WordPress blog owners to edit their category order.  Often when you’re blogging there will be one category you want to promote more than others, and it will suit [...]
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Editing and optimising images

I’m a website designer for holiday rental property owners, and one of the questions that crops up all the time is image size and quality.  Whereas the majority of UK households are now on broadband, many around the world are not, and indeed, the definition of broadband is pretty loose. As I write, I’m on [...]
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Adding a favicon to your WordPress blog

Someone asked me how to use a favicon with a WordPress blog the other day, and it wasn’t as simple as adding a favicon to a traditional website.  What the heck’s a favicon? A favicon is a small image (.ico extension) which, when correctly configured with your website or blog, appears in the browser of [...]
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