Website design

WordPress 3.0 Problems

Jun 22nd, 2010 | By Ais | Category: Website design

Do NOT “upgrade” to WordPress 3.0 if you want to keep using Branford Magazine.  Not yet, anyway. When WordPress 3.0 came out, I thought everything was okay. It turns out that the right column Category names vanish from the homepage. (That’s what’s going on, on my homepage.) I’m researching the issue, but — as you [...]



Testing Additional Column Sections

Feb 27th, 2010 | By Ais | Category: Website design

Would you like to add an extra section (extra categories)  to your Featured articles column (far left column) in Branford Magazine? I haven’t tried this code.  It was suggested by Mats Stadin (of Stugun Pike Fishing, Sweden) as a possible fix.  I’m fairly sure he’s working with a newer edition of Branford Magazine. And — [...]



Lead Article Tab Size

Feb 27th, 2010 | By Ais | Category: Website design

Thanks to reader Mats Stadin (Stugun Pike Fishing, Sweden at www.sdook.se/fishing) for his solution to the featured (lead) article height issue. (I’m pretty sure this works with newer editions of Branford Magazine.) Click on the image to see his screenshot, full size. The code to change is in ui.tabs.cs, in your Appearances > Editor panel.



WordPress 2.8 – no worries!

Jun 15th, 2009 | By Ais | Category: Website design

WordPress 2.8 offers several improvements, a few changes, and nothing that needs to worry you.  From what I’ve seen at my websites — on two different hosting services — WordPress 2.8 is fine. Your Appearance > Editor screen will look a little different.  It includes line numbers on the left.  That can make it easier [...]



Theme variation 1 – ready!

Mar 2nd, 2009 | By Ais | Category: Website design

My first free variation is ready! Branford Magazine theme is a free WordPress theme. It was created by Michael Oeser using elements of the Mimbo and Revolution themes. To save readers of Sites that Soar! time and frustration, I’m creating my own modified version of Branford Magazine theme. The first variation, Branford Magazine – Aisling [...]



Spam or not?

Dec 14th, 2008 | By Ais | Category: Website design

Some comments look like odd, vague comments… but they’re spam. Here’s a spam comment at a blog that I set up but didn’t fill in, yet.  Yes, these people are commenting at the default WordPress post that says it’s a sample post. Hi there, Not sure that this is true) but thanks Jinny Here’s another [...]



No images on homepage?

Nov 11th, 2008 | By Ais | Category: Website design

If you’re following the steps in my book, Sites that Soar, but you’re still not seeing any images with your homepage posts, here’s the first thing to do: Check which version of Branford Magazine you’re using. If you’re using Branford Magazine 2.6, released in December 2008, the Custom Fields URLs are different from those in [...]



Privacy policy

Oct 15th, 2008 | By Ais | Category: Website design

Privacy Policy for www.SitesThatSoar.com If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at email@SitesThatSoar.com. At www.SitesThatSoar.com, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information is received and collected [...]



Making moves easier

Oct 6th, 2008 | By Ais | Category: Plugins, Website design

Since I’m moving all of my 30+ websites this week, I’ve relied on two free WordPress plugins more than any others. One is the WordPress Automatic Upgrade, which upgrades your WordPress version to the current one, easily.  A few clicks and the whole thing is updated.  This plugin has saved me hours this week. The [...]



No images? Weird placement?

Aug 20th, 2008 | By Sites that Soar / Ais | Category: Website design

NOTE: This post is out of date.  See more recent articles about images, including When homepage images don’t show up. If your images aren’t showing up in the Custom Fields areas, here’s one reader’s solution: Instead of entering something like this 2008/08/imagename.jpg in the Custom Fields area, use something that looks like this: yourblog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/yourimage.jpg Please [...]