Facebook Apps – Warning

Some Facebook apps generate an enormous amount of spam and can annoy the heck out of your Facebook friends. Others are outright scams and should be avoided entirely. For example, any application offering to show you who has viewed your profile, who your Facebook stalkers are etc., are guaranteed to be fraudulent. Facebook doesn’t allow [...]

Facebook Friends Privacy

Keep your list of Friends private on Facebook and protect your list from being used by spammers 1. Click on the Friends link to go to your Friends Page 2. Up in the right corner is an image of a pencil. (Is it a pencil? It’s an icon for ‘Edit’ anyway) Click on that pencil [...]

Genesis Theme : Associate

OK. You’ve got the Slider up and running. Let’s have a look at that Associate Theme again What I’m going to show you is how Canny Granny has set up her Associate Theme In her three Home Middle settings she has placed a Genesis Featured Post All three are set the same, but using different [...]

Genesis Theme : Associate – Genesis Slider

You can use the Associate Child Theme straight out of the box. All you need are the two Custom Menus, one for the Header and one for the Sidebar, and just place whatever you like in the Sidebar. Or you can use the Genesis widgets for a very different look. Here’s what the Genesis widgets [...]

Genesis Theme : Delicious

In the Delicious Theme we have both a Primary and a Secondary Sidebar, while below them we have a widget layout like this. I’ll be working from a living site so, as you get to know the widgets, you can see them working at Cat Gossip The following are screenshots of Vladimir’s widgets Home Featured [...]

Genesis Footers

Does your Child Theme have Footers? You can use the Footers for widgets such as Links, Recent Comments (or Recent Posts), content in Text widgets or an RSS feed. It’s your site, lay it out the way you like. One way to use Footers is with the Featured Page widget Drag a Featured Page widget [...]

Genesis Widget Featured Page

The Featured Page is straightforward to set up. Drag a Featured Post widget across to where you want it. Choose your own options. Save. A simple Featured Page is shown here in the sidebar Does your Theme have Footers? You can display a Featured Page widget in the Footers

Using the Genesis Featured Post

Question : Just wondering where you might use a featured post, where it would appear and why you would use one. When you use the Genesis framework and a child theme, you’ll see the Featured Post widget. Genesis widgets are often used to the exclusion of the familiar WP widgets although basics such as “Links” [...]

Genesis Widget Featured Post

Drag a Featured Post widget over to your sidebar. Or, depending on your theme, to a Footer. You may have a Theme which asks you to place the Featured Post in another location – wherever it’s placed, the configuration is the same 1. Change the title to whatever you want 2. Choose the category you [...]

Current WordPress Attacks – Details and Solutions

The current WordPress attacks consist of one or more illegal botnets (a network of hundreds, thousands, or millions of compromised computers that are being exploited to perform attacks, send spam, etc) being used to brute-force attack WordPress sites. The goal of a brute force attack is to try as many username and password combinations as [...]

Australian National Broadband Network

Whether it’s music lessons from a Sydney Opera House diva… personal cricket coaching with Brett Lee… or language tuition direct from a classroom in Japan – events enabled by the National Broadband Network’s faster speeds and greater capacity are already happening around the country. The number of homes and businesses using services over the NBN [...]