The Official Wall of Mark Keeler » Wordpress Website Design http://www.markkeeler.com A Place To Find Ways to Create what you want through Social Networking Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:04:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Google Webmaster Tools WordPress Site Verification http://www.markkeeler.com/google-webmaster-tools-wordpress-site-verification/ http://www.markkeeler.com/google-webmaster-tools-wordpress-site-verification/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:51:19 +0000 Mark Keeler http://www.markkeeler.com/?p=838 Here is the easiest the easiest way to get your site verified on Google Webmaster Tools.

Go right into Google Webmaster Tools.  Add a new site.  Copy the meta code that Google generates for you.   Go into your WordPress dashboard and click on appearance/editor/header.php.  Open up the header and drop the code in right here:

<?php global $wp_theme_options; ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
<head profile=”http://gmpg.org/xfn/11″>

Add about 5 space above and below the newly added code just in case it does not work.  The code looks like this:  <meta name=”google-site-verification” content=”0SeOzqrLNO_85mtc1YbqrlhjYhFg_SpDz_IxMMqlIlk” />

This has always worked for me.  Never has failed!

]]> http://www.markkeeler.com/google-webmaster-tools-wordpress-site-verification/feed/ 1 How To Add Photos To A WordPress Blog Side Bar http://www.markkeeler.com/how-to-add-photos-to-a-wordpress-side-bar/ http://www.markkeeler.com/how-to-add-photos-to-a-wordpress-side-bar/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:18:25 +0000 Mark Keeler http://www.markkeeler.com/?p=498 Are you looking to add photos to your WordPress blog side bar?  I found a simple solution for adding photos to your side bar with out using Flickr or any other photo sharing site.  I use the default text widget that come with the installation of WordPress.  It works great for adding things to your side bar on the fly.  You don’t have to know html coding or anything.  If you are good at copy and pasting, then this is your non-geek solution.

For those of you who are frustrated at the photo side bar widgets, I found a solution that works great.  The standard text widget that comes with WordPress is the solution.  Follow the simple step by step instructions below and you can have a nice photo gallery in your widget sections.

  • Locate the default Text widget that comes with your WordPress installation.  I could not find a down loadable version anywhere on the Internet.
  • Drag the Text widget to the side bar where you want your photo.
  • Create a new post.
  • Upload/Insert photo.
  • After photo is uploaded, copy the html coding (control c).
  • Open/edit your side bar text widget.
  • Paste (control v) html coding into text widget.
  • Refresh browser on your blog.

You will have to experiment with the size of your photos as every side bar spacing is different.

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Free WordPress headers:

  • Bloggertalk offers four pages of beautiful headers including nature, animals, and even Disney designs.
  • Theme Headers has a great archive of headers with a variety of themes, some of which feature beautiful photography. Click on the “archives” to view them all.
  • FreeWebPageHeaders.com contains a huge database with 90 pages of great header banners. While the site is based on “web page” banners, these files are identical to blog banners.
  • Balko Photo offers this amazing collection of beautiful photographic header images for free.
  • Header Art Free header art for WordPress template.

Tools to Create a Custom WordPress Header

  • PhotoShop-Pack provides this very easy tutorial on how to create your own blog header image using Photoshop.
  • GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. (more…)
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How to Install a WordPress Header

Fortunately, installing a WordPress header is very simple. Follow the steps below, and you’ll have your blog looking exactly the way you want in just minutes.

First: Make sure the image for your header is uploaded to the “images” directory within the WordPress folder on your website.

Second: In the theme directory (/wp-content/themes/), find the file called “header.php.” Download this file to a location where you can edit it. If it isn’t in the themes folder, you may need to search for it.

Third: Within the header.php file , look for the section as follows.

#header {
background: url(“<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/images/wc_header.jpg”)
no-repeat bottom center; }
#headerimg {
margin: 7px 9px 0;
height: 192px;
width: 740px; }

Finally: Replace the standard WordPress image with the name of the new image that you’ve uploaded to the images directory.

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