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Leaving it highlighted, go to the chain-link button. If you hover over it, it should say “Insert/edit link (Alt+Shift+A)”. Click on this button.

A box will come up into which you enter the full address of the destination page for your link. In the “target” field [...]

Want to tell someone “Happy Birthday” on a particular day or arrange seven posts to publish once a day for a week? Login, then go to “write”. Write your post as normal and then, instead of pressing “publish”, click “edit”. It is next to the little calendar which says “Publish immediately” shown below:

You will then [...]

In order to add pictures, you will need to have access rights of an “Author”, “Editor” or “Administrator”. To add a picture, click on the first button, next to “Add media”. When you hover over it, a box will appear, saying “Add an Image”

You will see this screen appear:

Option 1: To upload photos and images [...]

Click on “Write”

Enter a title in the “Title” box

Write your article in the main box below, as shown:

Scroll down and choose a category or categories by ticking or un-ticking the boxes:

Scroll back up and press “submit for review” or “save” if you aren’t finished yet. If you are an author, editor or administrator, you will [...]

Go to your website. Add /wp-admin/ to the address.

This should take you to your login page:

Enter your details and press “Login”. This will take you to the dashboard.

You will see different things on the dashboard, depending on whether you are an administrator, contributor or subscriber etc…
Log out again by clicking on the “Log Out” link [...]

Today we checked our usual websites and noticed that the videos were not displaying in Firefox. I found a really useful thread here and a really good explanation here. The culprit seems to be IPv6 which can be uninstalled. It turns out we’re not the only ones struggling with our embedded Youtube videos.
This is a [...]

I was having a look at the technical blogging leviathan that is TechCrunch this evening and I thought I’d check out what their WP code looked like.
A technical blog written primarily about Web 2.0 (does anyone still use that phrase??) and the general state and direction of the media world should have, I would think, [...]

We’ve been spammed. Hard. We’re still trying to work out how and why it occurred, and how we can best mitigate the problems it has already thrown up, but our rudimentary investigation has demonstrated one thing which has wider implications for the entire web population: at least 28,000 other websites have been similarly attacked!
This problem [...]

Now that WordPress 2.5.1 has been released (I knew it would happen as soon as I put down my laptop having updated all the old versions to 2.5!) I thought it would be worth sharing with you my failsafe method of getting things upgraded as quickly and easily as possible.
I’m speaking, in this case, to [...]

Right at this very moment, I am going through the motions of upgrading the very last of our (great many) WordPress blog sites to WP 2.5 - probably when completed, we’ll see 2.6 hit the WordPress.org site! However, for the last of these upgrades, I’ve had to unzip locally and upload by FTP as I’m [...]