Convert MS Word to HTML Color Code or Vice Versa

Perhaps you’ve created something in MS Word and would now like to use that same color using html, or vice versa. Here is a little tool you may find very useful: HEX to RGB Color Converter.

Accessing Font Color Codes in MS Word

To access the font color in MS Word, do the following:

1. Open your document.
2. Highlight the word where your color exists. (Will address tables further down.)
3. Click on the arrow to the right of the A icon in the top tool bar of your document.
4. Click on “More Colors”.
5. Click on “Custom”. There you will find the 3 codes for RGB (red green blue). Use that using the tool to create an html color for that color. Or update that color using your existing html color code.

Accessing Background Color Codes in MS Word

If you are attempting to change a background color within a table or access the RGB color code rather than highlight a word do the following:

1. Click in the cell where the color exists.
2. Right click.
3. Click on “Borders and Shading”.
4. Click on the “Shading” tab above.
5. Under “Fill”, click on the drop down arrow. (If no color exists, rather than show a color it will be show “No Color”.)
6. Click on “More Colors” and find the codes for RGB.

Twenty Ten Child Theme Remove Comments from Pages

You may remove comments from any of your pages in your Wordpres Twenty-Ten child theme. Whether you are looking to remove comments from a static page, a particular page or all pages, see the instructions below.

1. Using a program such as Note Pad, create a blank page and save it as something like “no-comments-pages.php”. To save a file other than as a .txt file, you must change the” file type” in Note Pad to “All Files”. I saved my to my desktop.
2. Then in your child theme, add the following code to the Function.php file. I was able to add it near the bottom, right above “require_once……text-wrangler”. Make sure you replace “11″ with the proper page number from which you wish to remove the comments. To find the page number of a particular page, open the page in the edit mode. See the link above and notice towards the end there will be a number. That it is your page number. It may be one digit of 5 digits, etc. It all depends upon how many posts and pages you have on your blog.

CODE TO ADD TO YOUR CHILD THEME’S FUNCTION.PHP FILE:

add_filter( 'comments_template', 'remove_comments_template_on_pages', 11 );

function remove_comments_template_on_pages( $file ) {
if ( is_page() )
$file = STYLESHEETPATH . '/no-comments-please.php';
return $file;
}

Internal Linking: Create a Link Going to Another Portion of Same Page

You can link to any page of your website by creating a link as you would for an external link. However, it is trickier for internal linking when you wish to link to a specific portion of the same page. I do not see many SEO experts explaining in it simple English. So, I have done so below. Just let me know if you have any questions on internal linking that I can answer in plain English, step by step.

First, you will want to create your page. Once you have created your page, go to the html portion of the page (in WordPress ,(org or. com) that would be the HTML tab under the title of your page), and find the word you wish your readers to click on to go elsewhere. Replace the word with the first line in the text below. Then replace the words link-to-your-page with the page url of your page. Also replace both Anchor Text, with the words you desire your reader to click on to go elsewhere. Make sure the word you use for your readers to click on is the same word that you wish them to go to.

The second part to internal linking on the same page is to find the word you wish them to go to and replace it with the second line in the image below. Replace the words Anchor Text with the word that the link in the first line will take them to. Make sure that all Anchor Text is the same word(s).

WordPress Display Users (Amount of Users)

I have seen other blogs show the number of users for their site, but everywhere I looked for instructions, but most of them never told me which file to place it in. I grew tired of running into article on “WordPress Display Users” which only told me how to display the names of users. Finally, I ran across another site that explained to place the code anywhere in your theme files. That can be scarey to some, as you can mess up files by doing like this. However, this code was very safe, as I placed it in my Function theme’s file and it worked! Don’t forget to backup any file you edit, prior to editing! Then you can always reload it if necessary. See instructions below.

WordPress Display Users Amount Instructions

If your wordpress blog allows users to register for your blog, and you wish to display the number of users do the following:

Either by using your control panel or an application such as FileZilla, add the following code at the bottom of your Function file located in your theme’s folder:

$users = $wpdb->get_var(“SELECT COUNT(ID) FROM $wpdb->users”);
echo $users.” registered users.”;

Don’t forget to save the changes!

Then go to the home page of your WordPress blog. You will see the number of users in the top left hand corner. If you were already on your home page, just refresh it.

If you leave the code as is, above ,you will see for example “1024 registered users.”  You can change the wording in the code above to something like, “Registered Users for THE NAME OF YOUR BLOG.” Change “THE NAME OF YOUR BLOG” to the actual name of your blog.

Let me know if you have any questions!

WordPress Pop Up Box

If you are looking to add a popup box or  window to define a word or term in WordPress (.org) you do not need a plug in to achieve this. Plugins slow your site down, meaning the pages will load slower. The more plugins you have, the slower your site becomes. Here’s the code you’ll use. It’s very simple, even for those who do not know html.

1.  In your new WordPress post, click on the HTML tab above the toolbar. Find the word or term you wish to have a popup box or window appear.

2.  Prior to the word or term, you add in the “less than” sign, the words “acronym” followed by an equal sign and an open quotation mark, you add what you wish the dialogue box to read, then close with a quotation mark and a greater than sign. After the word or term, (in this case “celiac disease”), you add a less than sign, forward slash, the word acronym, and a greater than sign. See below for an example. See image below for an example.

WordPress org Site Slow? High Bounce Rate?

If your Wordress org site is slow, meaning it takes a long time to load; or your website statistics show you have a high bounce rate, meaning people are finding your site through search engines, but leave within a fraction of a second, here is a quick fix:

1. Go to your dashboard.
2. In the left sidebar go to Plugins Add New.
3. Under “Search” type in “WP Cache” and click on “Search Plugins”.
4. Find “WP-Cache” and click install.
5. It will take you to your installed Plugins page.  Find “WP-Cache” and click activate.
6. In your left sidebar you will find “WP-Cache” under Settings.  There, you can define how many seconds you wish the cache to continue.  It defaults at 3600 seconds (1 hour).  I read that if your site is busy you should reset it to 1800.  No one defines what a busy site is, but I assume if you get over 10,000 or 20,000 page views a month it would be considered busy; not really sure.

What does cache mean?  Cache is a way of storing your data, but showing a picture (snapshot of your page), yet the data is available when needed.

There is also another Plugin that helps speed up your site by caching your widgets.  That is called “WP Widget Cache”.  If you have widgets, meaning text boxes with Java Script or html code added to your site, then this will help speed up your site, as well.

I hope this helps you.

Happy blogging!

How To Start a Blog – Part 1

When I first started my first blog I kept hearing that you need to start out with WordPress.  I had not idea then that were two different WordPress blogs: WordPress.org and WordPress.com.  I absolutely love WordPress.com!  But if you want to make money, use the blog for any type of business venture or create really cool stuff on your blog you will need WordPress.org.  If you start a blog at WordPress.com you will eventually need to move your blog to WordPress.org and will lose much of your traffic and just about have to start over in rankings with the search engines!

WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

There are many reasons for using WordPress.org vs. WordPress.com:

Belong to more than one social media? Short on time?

If you have multiple blogs and/or multiple social media accounts, check out http://ping.fm. They allow you to register all of your social media accounts and just have one place to post from. You can post to them to all at once, just a few, or just one at a time. It is absolutely free, too!

Enjoy your time!

The First Step in Blogging is Choosing a Blog Company

Before you just go ahead and choose a blogging company know that many blogging companies do not have the abilities that WordPress has in SEO (Search Engine Optimization).  SEO is what causes your rankings to be high on the Search Engines, like Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.

One blogging company is Blogger, owned by Google.  The tags (related words and terms to your article that you post) you create in a blog are not recognized by Google Robots that search everyone’s Blogger blog.  So you will have less traffic from Blogger.  It is believed to be unintentional, but that engineers that created Blogger do not have the SEO knowledge to have even considered this.  WordPress is set up for SEO.

It sure is!  I was just amazed.  My articles/posts are on google usually within 24 hours.  Then you have all of those tags that you created which bring in more people from each of the tags (these are posted on Google as well, which is what I was talking about above).

For those of you that have all the lingo down, please be patient, as my readers are mostly beginners.

So come aboard and join WordPress!

Leave any question you have below in the comments section please.

Free Dead Link Checker

UPDATE: 9/27/2010:  This link is no longer active.  Ignore all content below.  I would delete this page, but the search engines do not like when you do that!  I can hurt your rankings.  Good lesson here!

Do you have dead links on your website or blog?

With the this free dead link checker it will tell which links on your site are found out NOT found.  It’s free therefore you have nothing to lose.