Thanks to a direct response to my Twitter account (trustavenger), I learned of a WordPress plugin called Viper’s Video Quicktags. I just tested it with the previous YouTube video and it worked like a charm.
Viper’s Video Quicktags will save you lots of time embedding video from YouTube, Google Video, DailyMotion, Vimeo, Veoh, Viddler, Metacafe, [...]
One WordPress feature is automatic trackbacks (pingbacks) by other blogs powered by WordPress. I learned of my first trackback via a Google Alert. It’s a source of back links that may yield some traffic.
These trackbacks are tagged with the “nofollow” attribute so it won’t help Google Page Rank. WordPress 1.5 and above automatically [...]
Although embedding a Blip.tv video into WordPress 2.6.2 worked fine, I had a tough time embedding a YouTube video into WordPress. In frustration I did a Google search and discovered that the culprit is the WordPress Visual Editor. It needs to be turned off while embedding YouTube video into a new post or editing a [...]
I moved my information marketing blog from a free Blogger account to using WordPress with my own domain (informationmarketingblog.com). This is actually an add-on domain hosted on HostGator.
It was not simple and I had second thoughts several times during the multiple day ordeal. The WordPress import tool simply didn’t work (despite moving [...]
Because of the 30 Day Challenge (30DC), I installed the web browser Flock yesterday. I only did it to learn about Flock and didn’t expect to switch from IE7.
Last night while creating a new hub in IE7, I couldn’t access HubPages. This has happened frequently in the past week. I finally figured out that using [...]