Changing Image Order in NextGen Galleries

To set the order of images in your NextGen galleries do the following: Go into ‘Manage Galleries’ Choose a Gallery to manage Select ‘Sort Gallery’ above the list of images If you do not see this option, go into the NextGen ‘Options’ Page Go into the ‘Gallery’ Tab and set the Sort Option to ‘Custom [...]

WordPress SEO

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, “the process of improving ranking in search engine results” (Wikipedia), and is very important in helping potential customers or readers find your blog. The All in One SEO Pack plugin for WordPress is a powerful solution for increasing your SEO and getting more pageviews and visits. It allows you [...]

WordPress Widgets

The last few versions of WordPress have included widgets. Widgets are a system which allows you to rearrange the content in your WordPress sidebar without having to manually change the code. Widgets can be found in the ‘Widgets’ button  under ‘Appearance.’ Several widgets come standard with WordPress, and others are bundled into plugins and are [...]

The NextGEN Gallery Widgets

Another great feature of the NextGEN Gallery plugin is the widget it comes with. This widget makes it easy to display pictures on your WordPress sidebar without having to use another plugin or to write any code. Using the widget is easy. Follow the steps in WordPress Widgets to drag the NextGEN Gallery Widget or [...]

MapPress (Google Maps in WordPress)

MapPress is the easiest way to insert a map into a WordPress post, and it makes inserting driving directions and showing locations much faster. Install the MapPress plugin (Contact Pica Design if you need help with this) Open the MapPress box in the New Post or Page section and enter the address and the caption [...]

Dynamic Headers for WordPress

Dynamic Headers allow different posts and pages in WordPress to have different images or text on the header (the top of the page, above the content). This means that your Homepage header can be different from the header on your Contact page, for example, the Contact page could have a picture of a telephone on [...]

Captcha Tools

Captchas are a standard method to prevent spam on a website. CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart,” and almost everyone has used one at some point. Since computers can’t read these images effectively, they are used as verification of a person posting a comment or filling out [...]

Smart YouTube for WordPress

With the Smart YouTube plugin for WordPress, embedding a YouTube video into a WordPress is extremely easy. All you have to do is add a few letters into the YouTube address. Find a video you want to embed into your WordPress post. Copy its URL into a WordPress post http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeacjOkLjZ0 Insert a letter after the [...]

Akismet in WordPress

Akismet is a very intelligent spam filter you can install on your WordPress blog to keep spam comments to a minimum. Spam comments are becoming increasingly common as blogs grow in popularity but Akismet’s filtering system helps keep spam to a minimum. Pica Design will set up your Akismet account when we set up your [...]

Using NextGEN Gallery

NextGen Gallery is a very robust WordPress plugin for creating and managing an image gallery on your WordPress blog. It is best used for displaying a large amount of photos at once, and alleviates the need to insert pictures manually like we described in How to Insert a Picture into Post in WordPress. Pica Design [...]