I have a love-hate relationship with WordPress’s Gutenberg project. Hi, this is Chris with Laughter On Water. In this episode, I’ll explain my take on the future of Gutenberg for WordPress. Continue reading “Gutenberg for WordPress – Promising but Frustrating”
Installing OptiPNG on Dreamhost
Google’s PageSpeed Insights can help you tweak your site’s accessibility by making things load faster. One way to make your website load faster is to optimize images.
Google suggests using Optipng for optimizing PNG or Portable Network Graphic files. There are a lot of ways to enable and use optipng, but I’m going to show you how to install it on your Dreamhost shared hosting server. Dreamhost doesnt automatically offer optipng, so until they do, it’s not that difficult to install it locally. Continue reading “Installing OptiPNG on Dreamhost”
Edit and Create Pages and Posts in WordPress – Part 3
This is the third in a series of tutorials on creating and editing wordpress pages and posts.
In this session, We study the anatomy of the wysiwyg interface and learn about the kitchen sink.
We also explore the capabilities the publish post box. Continue reading “Edit and Create Pages and Posts in WordPress – Part 3”
Edit and Create Pages and Posts in WordPress – Part 2
This is the second in a series of tutorials on creating and editing wordpress pages and posts.
In this session, we’ll tour the dashboard and learn how to customize it for our needs. We’ll study the anatomy of the administrative interface with a preference for discussing the areas we’ll be using most. We’ll discuss the difference between posts and pages and create and edit a few of the same. We’ll also briefly mention media and comments but will discuss these in a later tutorial. Continue reading “Edit and Create Pages and Posts in WordPress – Part 2”
Edit and Create Pages and Posts in WordPress – Part 1
This is a simple tutorial series in several parts that will show how to log in, find your password if you can’t remember it, and create, edit and delete posts and pages in wordpress. There will also be a small bit on how to upload images.
Continue reading “Edit and Create Pages and Posts in WordPress – Part 1”