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WordPress Admin Missing in Author List

Posted on August 11, 2009 at 9:56 am in
Author Missing

I’m the Administrator on my WordPress site but my name doesn’t show up as an Author option when posting Occasionally, WordPress hiccups and loses the Administrator’s name in the Author dropdown. The fix is simple — if a little long winded.

Activating A New WordPress Theme

Posted on August 9, 2009 at 1:44 pm in
WordPress Themes Menu

I’ve just downloaded a new theme and want to apply it to my WordPress blog. What do I have to do? If you’ve downloaded the theme to your own computer: Unpack the theme on your local machine. Upload the complete theme folder to wp-content/themes on your server using FTP (or whatever file manager is available…

WordPress Default Theme & Header Images

Posted on August 8, 2009 at 12:52 pm in
Kubrick header

How do I add a graphic to the top banner in the default WordPress theme? If you amend the Default theme, the next time you upgrade WordPress, your changes will be overwritten. To avoid this happening, create a new customised theme and carry out all of your changes on this copy.

WordPress Dates Missing

Posted on August 7, 2009 at 5:43 pm in
Calendar

The date isn’t being displayed on some of my posts! The default behaviour for WordPress the_date() template tag is to only display the full date on the first post on a given day. Subsequent posts from the same day only display a time stamp.

Changes Not Displayed?

Posted on August 1, 2009 at 12:26 pm in
cross

I’ve made some changes to one of my Posts/Pages but, when I view the site, the changes aren’t visible. What did I do wrong? Chances are that you’re viewing an old copy of your recently updated page. Always press Ctrl and F5 simultaneously when viewing an updated Page or Post. This key combination (also known…

WordPress Theme Development

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