In very old version of WordPress, you couldn’t add the ability to allow a link to open in a new window. However, that is no longer the case. You can add that whether you’re using the visual editor or the text editor, when you make a link open in a new window. Here’s how to
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How To Link the Widget Title in WordPress
Over the years, I’ve had some interesting requests, and one of them was how to link the widget title in WordPress. Out of the box, WordPress really doesn’t give you much leniency except customizing the CSS for your widget title. You can’t make it several different fonts, or get HTML to work. I’ll go over
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WordPress hasn’t ever been just a blog platform. Sure, it’s roots came from it’s b2 cafelog days, but once it was forked, the plans to improve and make it a robust content management system started. And today, it’s considered the best CMS in the market. Millions of websites are powered by WordPress. However, when it
[Continue Reading...]WordPress Rockstar: Shayda Torabi
I speak at a lot of WordCamps, and that’s how I met Shayda Torabi. She’s this intelligent, bubbly, and wonderfully kind lady, who has a big heart. I met Shayda when she did her first WordCamp talk, You Have 2 Hands, at WordCamp Las Vegas 2015. Like a lot of people, she was nervous, but
[Continue Reading...]How to Fix WordPress Posts Returning a 404 Error
WordPress does some weird things, like when you try to publish a post, and it returns a 404, not found page. This is of course, unexpected behavior. In this case, you click to publish the post, and while it loads to the 404 error, you will see in your browser address area, or where the
[Continue Reading...]WordPress Rockstar: Russell Aaron
Russell Aaron is a WordPress Rockstar for many reasons, but his enthusiasm and gusto for WordPress was what impressed me when I finally met him in person. He’s my kind of people who appreciate rock, has a love for WordPress and life, and just exudes a lot of energy and positivity. Russell contributes to the
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