Design

Here’s some stuff that I have found useful on this site.

I used to use this graphic for the RSS feed is thanks to Snoskred. She offers a range of colours on her website… and hosting.

Theme - The current theme is Revolution Pro by Brian Gardner. As you’ll see if you go to his site – I’ve decided not to pick up the magazine style yet… although I do love it. I’m just not quite ready and I’m not sure my readers are. However I do use some of the elements – like the reviews section. More on the design tweaking

Previous themes I’ve used include WP Theme Beauty 50, Daisy Rae Gemini, and MistyLook.

Random Header Image – I tried several programs and ended up using php code in the css. The clearest instructions and background were found on A List Apart. However I found this wasn’t working in Firefox browsers. The fix is using this Javascript generator on Thought After. And inserting it into the header.php page just before the </head> tag.

Favicon maker – go here for a quick and easy way to make a favicon which is that little image next to your address in the address bar.

Guera from A Roaming Aussie Mum has a great post detailing some of the resources she’s used to tweak her WordPress theme.

emomsathome – a great tutorial for starting up a WordPress blog.

BlogBackupOnline – OMG – this is a brilliant no fuss way to daily back-up your blog. It’s in beta-testing at the moment and so free. Check it out!

7 WordPress Hacks - Tubetorial have some great hacks and plug-in suggestions. This is where I got the subscribe-to-comments plug-in. Tubetorial

Comments on Pages (or not) – Arghh this was a nightmare… Solution!

PLUG-INS -
Lucia’s Linky Love – to stop the no follow thing.
Multi-Level Navigation – this plug in enables me to have extra tiers of navigation. For example if you look under the category – travel – you see country and then state.

HACKED SITE – yes my website has been hacked, and I know I’m not alone! Here’s how I solved my hacker nightmare.

Have you come across anything groovy? Let me know via the comments form below.

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CB