One of the new features in WordPress 3.0 is the Menu generator. This lets you create menus containing categories, pages, and links all together. However, many themes have not yet released updates to enable this functionality. In this tutorial, I will show you how to enable your Thesis powered blog to take advantage of the menus feature.
You will need to edit your custom_functions.php. Enter the following lines below all code already there, but above the ?>:
There are many tutorials out there about adding a feature box to Thesis, but they all have one fatal flaw: they tell you to use a “Featured” category. This seems innocuous enough, but it causes unwanted results for my clients: they now have a category that shows up in widgets and other areas of the blog. In this tutorial, I will show you how to implement the feature box by using custom fields.
First, we will need to set up the code for the feature box. You do this by going to your WordPress admin area and selecting “Thesis” >> “Custom File Editor”. Once there, select “custom_functions.php” from the dropbox near the top of the page, just above the text area. Then click the “Edit Selected File” button just to the right. Now, copy the following code and paste it into your text area below everything already there:
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Backing up your website hosting account is an important part of your internet strategy. Yes, your hosting provider probably makes backups. But should your account get wiped out or defaced, you will have to contact your hosting provider’s tech support and request a restore. All of which costs you time and money due to the downtime of your website.
By making your own backups, you can restore your website the moment you realize something is amiss. And you want those backups to be automated so that you do not have to remember to do it.
This video gives you a tutorial on how to schedule backups of your hosting account using cPanel’s “Cron Jobs” feature. This will backup all of your hosting account with the exception of your mySQL databases: (more…)
Keeping your WordPress blog installation up to date is essential to blog security. New security exploits are being found on a regular basis. The developers over at wordpress.org do a great job of staying on top of things, and release an update whenever a new exploit is found and fixed.
Below is a video tutorial on how to update your installation in a few simple steps using the Automatic Upgrade option:
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