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.

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;
}

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 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!

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.

YOU’LL END UP WITH THIS:

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!

WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

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

1. There are several features that WordPress.org offers that WordPress.com does not offer.  One of these features include the use of a code called JavaScript.  There are neat little plugins (free software) that you can use in WordPress.org that allows you to add javascript code, different from html code, which is not allowed anymore in WordPress.com.  Say you start a BlogTalk Radio Show and you want to copy the code from your show and place it in a text box on your blog so people can listen to your show right from your blog.  You cannot do that with WordPress.com.  Say you want to add a cool toolbar on your site that contains Javascript.  You cannot do that with WordPress.com.  Say you want to upload a free forum widget or a newsletter widget.  You can only do this in WordPress.org.
2. I found out that if you really want to get search engine traffic you need to have a personal url that contains your keywords in the first portion of your url.  Example: You have a recipe site, therefore, you will want a url address that begins with the word “recipe” or “recipes”.  (Tip: Using hyphens to link your keywords may be helpful, too, e.g., patio-furniture vs. patiofurniture.)  Well, you can purchase a yearly subscription for a personal url through WordPress.com, but you do not have a lot of control over it; it is more expensive than ones you can get elsewhere; and when it comes time to moving to WordPress.org or another site you will not be able to do it in such a manner as to please Google in regards to their change of address instructions.  It’s best to get your own url and use WordPress.org.  I use Godaddy for all of my urls now.  They have the best customer service around.  They teach you things you need to know.  You can actually talk to live people 24/7!  You can even get personal email addresses for something like $1.99 a month. UPDATE 10/2011: Godady is great for purchasing your domain name, but when your blog gets larger, say if you post everyday, it just too slow for hosting (space on the web). I have switched my hosting to Bluehost.
3. You can get free themes on WordPress.com and WordPress.org, but you can more easily customize your themes in WordPress.org, if  you chose a customizable theme.  A great free WordPress.org theme one is Shadowbox.  There are ones you can purchase, as well, but I find the free ones are the best, as any of the ones I have purchased have just slowed down the speed of page loading, which the search engines now count when they rank your site.
4. If your blog becomes popular and you decide to move it from WordPress.com to WordPress.org.  Google asks that you forward your old blog address to your new blog address.  This will notify Google to stop searching your site and to start sending traffic for the same pages to your new site. They prefer you to forward each individual page of post, not the entire site.  What you need to create is a 301 redirect for each page (more on that in a future post).  This cannot be done in WordPress.com.  There is a method of forwarding your entire blog to WordPress, but you must pay the same fee as you would for a personal url every year.  And by doing so you may have your site down for up to 2 days.
5. Another code used now in websites is CSS code, instead of html.  It allows one to create code that will address things globally within your website.  Example: Instead of having to enter html code on every page that causes links to be blue in color, one can create CSS code that will cause this to occur on all pages.  You have to pay to edit CSS code in a theme with Wordprss.com.  It’s free with WordPress.org, if you have a theme that allows you to edit the CSS code.

You should know that WordPress.com backs up all of your posts and pages, but WordPress.org does not.  You’ll need to upload a free plugin for that through WordPress.org.

Summary

1. Go to www.godaddy.com and purchase a url that starts with your keyword(s). UPDATE: Bluehost includes a free domain name (url) with hosting packages! Therefore, Godaddy is not necessary.
2. Sign up for a WordPress.org account using your new url.
3. Have GoDaddy (UPDATE: Bluehost) help you with the installation.  They have instructions, but they will walk you through it if needed, via email.
4. Stay tuned in for Part 2 of How To Start A Blog.

Enjoy your time!

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.

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.

Check it out:  http://www.dead-links.com/

Links rank among the top factors that affect a website page’s ranking. Links, however, can affect a page ranking  negatively as well as positively.  Both internal and external links can affect a websites ranking. However, there isn’t much you can do about incoming links.  If many of the links on your website are dead links or go to pages reading “Page Not Found” those links actually create a negative effect.  The quality of links found on a page is therefore extremely important.  They should have relevant text pointing visitors to additional information that they actually need and want.  Dead links are considered to be undesirable and will negatively impact your page ranking.

Let’s face it, if a viewer finds a dead link they could make the conclusion that your information on your site is stale and leave to find information elsewhere.  So, remove those dead links!

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