Creating a WordPress template page is fairly straightforward. <?php /* Template Name: Some_Template_Name */ ?> Save the file FTP the file to the folder of the theme for which you are writing the template Then, in the WordPress backend for your site you can add a page and select Some_Template_Name as its template, and go […]

If you look at if you look at the menubar for this website you’ll see that there is now a “Table Of Contents”. Even though this site is a blog, I offer users a table of contents which presents the articles in a book like fashion. There is also now a table of contents link […]

(This is part of a blog being moved from MarksWPTips.com to this site) I have read advice not to use Microsoft Word or other Word Processors to write the text of your blog.  But I say that sometimes it’s easier to create a document in Microsoft Word with all of its advanced formatting capabilities, and […]

(This is part of a blog being moved from MarksWPTips.com to this site) If you want to move a WordPress blog the easiest thing is to just move it without upgrading it.  If that’s the case then you just want to copy the file folders from the one host to the other using an FTP […]

(This is part of a blog being moved from MarksWPTips.com to this site) The last time I tried to upgrade WordPress on 1and1, it just stalled and failed. A quick search on Google led me to the WordPress site that had this advice for 1and1.com users: the root of your WordPress install needs to have […]

I recently set up a site and wanted to see stats. I set up to use WordPress.Com stats but never saw any. They always read zero. This solved it: Make sure that <?php wp_footer(); ?> is a line in the footer.php file right before </body>

WordPress is a great blogging program. Not only does it have an automated system for creating and managing blogs, but it allows the use of themes to quickly present different, attractive user interfaces (what the screen looks like).  A theme is a package that has preset colors, tools, and spaces, and allows the user to […]

Create a database by clicking on New Database: Download the WordPress program Set up the configuration file. Upload the files to Your Website. Run the WordPress Install Program.. After The Install First of all, there is a blogging program (a stripped-down version of WordPress) that is available in the tools section of the 1and1 admin […]