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USTREAM Streaming Video on Your WordPress Blog

Using a USTREAM live video feed on your blog is easy, and it makes finding your streaming  feed easy for your target audience! This screencast tutorial will help you embed both video and chat on your WordPress blog. NOTE: If you scroll down this page, you’ll see I have pasted some code that I refer [...]

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WordPress Permalinks Issue on Bluehost

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There is a known bug with WordPress blogs hosted on Bluehost that will crash your site and prevent you from logging into your WordPress dashboard. The bug occurs if you change the permalink settings on your site. This tutorial will show you what triggers the bug, and how to fix it. If you’re not comfortable [...]

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WordPress Blog Tutorial: Installing a Google Calendar

Google Calendars are a great tool for any ministry. Multiple people can have access to updating them, and they can be easily installed onto your blog so that everyone who visits your site can be kept up to date on your ministry’s schedule of events. Managing the calendar is extremely easy since you only have [...]

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Installing WordPress Plugins

Plugins are a great way to customize the look and functionality of any WordPress blog. They’re an easy way to do things like add Facebook functionality to your blog, block spam from your comments, and embed fill-in forms into your pages, just to name a few. WordPress makes it really easy to search for and [...]

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Free Web Building Tutorials at W3Schools

W3Schools is an amazing website featuring tons of free web building tutorials. If you’re looking for a handy reference for html, css, and all things computer code, W3Schools is a good one. Check it out – w3schools.com

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Events Pages-Keeping Information Visible With Categories and Category Pages

You may have noticed that we have additional pages on our blog where the blog posts on our front page reappear, organized by categories. If you’re using the Thesis theme for WordPress, those category pages are really easy to set up, and can be useful for keeping information visible and accessible to your audience. For [...]

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Everything You Every Wanted to Know About WordPress

If you’re new to WordPress, be sure to check out the WordPress Codex – codex.wordpress.org. Like any manual, it can be a little overwhelming and sort of a dry read at times. But almost everything you’ve ever wanted to know about WordPress can be found there.

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Event Tracking With Google Analytics

Google Analytics work by sampling the activity on your site each time a page is viewed. However, in some situations where a visitor follows a link to a downloadable file or follows an ‘outbound link’ (that points to a page outside your site), Google Analytics will not automatically record the relevant information; this is because [...]

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Sticky Posts: How To Make a Post Stick To The Top of Your Home Page

Let’s say your group is putting on a HUGE event that you want your entire audience to know about. In fact, the event is so big that you wish your blog post about that event was always at the top of your list of posts on your home page. Not a problem with WordPress and [...]

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WordPress Tip: Insert a Google Map

Embedding Google Maps onto your ministry blog is a really easy way to show people where all of your events and outreaches are happening without them navigating away from your site. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to embed a map onto your WordPress blog. 1. Go to www.maps.google.com 2. Enter the desired address in [...]

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