Add Recent Comments to Branford Magazine Theme

October 7, 2008 · Filed Under web site building · 3 Comments 

Branford Magazine theme is simply one of the most elegant free premium magazine-style Wordpress themes. One of the reasons I love it is the tabbed options box so prominently located right above the first post that webmasters  can customize to their liking. For one of my sites it was important to display the most recent comments prominently, and after a lot of research and tweaking, this is the code I used to achieve this.

Here is the code for editing the ui.tabs.php to include recent comments:

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Organizing Your Blog

October 7, 2008 · Filed Under blogging · 2 Comments 

It is important to get your navigation organized, and in blogging, the following can be used to do this:

1. Categories

2. Pages

3. Tags

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Get Started With Your WordPress Blog

October 5, 2008 · Filed Under web site building, wordpress · Comment 

Do You Want a WordPress Blog Like This One?

It’s pretty easy. It took me less than an hour to get my first site up and running because almost all web hosts have a service called Fantastico that does a one click installation of WordPress in your account.

You can get a free blog at WordPress.com but you will not be allowed to put ads in your web site. So, if you want to make money online with WordPress you have to get a web host. No need to worry, though, because web hosting is inexpensive and you can have multiple sites in just one hosting account.

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Get Your Own Domain Name

October 4, 2008 · Filed Under domain names · Comment 

WHY DO I NEED A DOMAIN NAME?

An Internet domain name is a unique web address that you can purchase for your web site through a domain name registrar. It could contain your business name: http://www.yourbusinessname.com, or most any other word/letter combination that you want, based upon availability.

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