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How to Disable WordPress Autosave and Revisions

March 24th, 2010 | Author: Jim Hutchinson

When WordPress is installed, the default settings for Autosave are set for saving a copy every 60 seconds. Unless you are writing your articles in another program such as Windows Live Writer or BlogDesk, you could end up with many copies of your post. The longer it takes you to write your article online, the more copies you will have.

If you leave that screen and come back later to edit the post, you might see a notice on the top of your screen telling you there is an Autosave that is newer than the saved copy.

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How to Create an Image Gallery in WordPress

March 14th, 2010 | Author: Jim Hutchinson

Whether you have a website for real estate, an art gallery, your vacation photos, or maybe your hot air balloons, there will be a time when you want to post all your images in a single page. In WordPress there are a few ways to accomplish that.

You can install an image gallery plugin
Manually add the photos and try to align them to look nice
Use the WordPress built-in gallery

I was confused and frustrated with posting multiple images, trying to get them all aligned 3 across to fit the blog theme, until I learned to use the Gallery button in the Media section.

This video will show you the manual way and the automatic method using the gallery that is built into WordPress, combined with the Lightbox 2 plugin that creates slide shows for you. Watch the video an see how easy an image gallery can be to create. Read the rest of this entry »

How to Prevent WordPress Crashes

February 17th, 2010 | Author: Jim Hutchinson

How to Prevent WordPress Crashes by Repairing MySQL Tables

The heart of every WordPress blog is a database. Most often that will be MySQL (pronounced My S.Q.L. or My Sequel).

If your WordPress blog display errors instead of your content, your database could be corrupted! That would be like your heart having a murmur; you never know when it will stop working properly.

I normally cringe when someone who is unfamiliar with phpMyAdmin or dealing with databases in general says they want to look around in there. One wrong click can create a lot more problems. Following the instructions in this video, you will learn how to easily fix the database problems in just a few minutes and prevent it from happening in the future.

Just be careful to do exactly what the video shows you and nothing else, unless you are positive you know what you are doing. This is not just a scare tactic; it is a fact that I have seen happen way too many times.

If after watching the video you are still skeptical about going into the heart of your website, Website Managers will handle that for you. No, it will not cost you an arm and a leg either.

So what do you think? Are you up to the challenge? Post your comments and let us know.

My Favorite WordPress Plugins

December 17th, 2009 | Author: Jim Hutchinson

Using these WordPress plugins can make your blog more interactive, sticky to keep visitors coming back for more and used by novices and power bloggers alike. Not all of these plugins need to be used on a single blog, depending on the focus of your site.

Where there are multiple options to perform a single task, I like to spread them out across several blogs to see which ones work best, or fit the look and feel of that site. I use every one of these plugins on various sites, except the eCommerce plugins. Those will come later as those sites are built. The ones listed are the best I found and tested in the WordPress Plugin category. Since this was originally posted on Feb 14, 2009, the list has continued to grow. Read the rest of this entry »