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WordPress 3 Allow Posts in Menu (as well as Pages)

In WordPress 3.3 (and probably earlier versions) you can make custom menus in your blog.

Go to Appearance, Menus (/wp-admin/nav-menus.php) and you can add Pages or Custom Links to your menu.

But how do you put specific Posts on your menu?

Click on Screen Options (top right corner of the screen), and you’ll see check  boxes for all the types of items you can put in a menu, plus some other information such as the link target and CSS classes.

You will probably want to change the text that gets displayed in the menu (the default is the post title). Click on the drop-down arrow by each menu item, and you can change the Navigation Label (what shows in the menu) and the Description (displayed in some themes).

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By glerner – January 19, 2012

PayPal “last action could not be completed”

I was getting an error trying to purchase something using PayPal:

“Sorry — your last action could not be completed”

I thought it was their buy link, but I tried using one of my own links, got the same error.

Ah, probably the settings in my browser, or there’s a problem with the PP site.

In Firefox, if you delete cookies (a good idea periodically, for security), the site gets set to “disable cookies”. It’s a good default behavior, but does cause occasional problems.

Here’s how to enable cookies for a site, in Firefox (I have version 8):

  1. Click on the icon left of the browser URL (when you’re on Google.com, shows the Google “g”, when on PayPal.com, shows “PayPal, Inc. (US)”).
  2. Click “More Information”
  3. Click on Permissions at the top of the Page Info window that pops up.
  4. In the Set Cookies line, select “Allow for Session”.

Posted in Computer Use.

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By glerner – December 7, 2011

Health and Wellness Give-Away

Just found out about a Health & Wellness Give-Away, lots of great stuff.

Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Gifts Giveaway is LIVE and that means…

It’s time to get your hands on the largest selection of FREE Health and Wellness Products & Services that you will find anywhere!

The line up of gifts I’ve seen are some of the most powerful Self-Help ebooks, memberships, videos, audios, software, and e-courses on the net today:

* Mind Alchemy: Unlocking The POWER of Your Mind – Steven Aitchison
* Secrets On Attracting Clients & Removing Your Money Blocks – Heather Picken
* Getting Started With Clarifying Values – Karen Cappello
* Supercharge Your Weight Loss – Hollie Hawley
* Chakra Balancing Meditation MP3 – Becca Chopra
* 63 Success Strategies – Zoe Routh
* Mindsetology Package ($97 value) – Jeremy Gislason
* The Free Inner Bonding Home Study Course – Margaret Paul
* Blooming At Midlife – Tomar Levine
* Love Your Body 30 Day Transformation Program – Kerri Kannan
* And TONS (OVER 300+) MORE!

This is a great opportunity to tackle any challenge (health or wellness) that’s facing you right now.

The give-away is at http://healthywealthywisegifts.com/go/1013342

George

Posted in Fitness, Health.

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By glerner – June 15, 2011

Cell Phone Wish List

Just read an article showing some enhancements that are planned for some cell phones, including an attachment providing big-screen resolution, built-in projector for movies (not interested), mobile video conferencing (I’d want that), biometric sensors (very important for some people, I’d want to be able to Turn Those Off)

The most important feature listed, for me, was being able to easily share information between my devices: start reading a file on the computer, transfer it to the phone. Listen to a podcast on the computer, pick up where I was, on my phone. Copy someone’s information from my email address book to my phone address book, without retyping it. Email my high-resolution picture from my phone to my computer (My current phone advertised how high the camera resolution is, then won’t let me email high-resolution pictures, and won’t let me copy them by USB!)

I would not want a phone that is a projector — during a presentation, I would want to be able to use my phone for texting, getting latest information, or even (dare I say it) making a phone call.

I want a phone to have good reception, good voice sound quality, play mp3 files through the headset (good voice quality, decent music quality). I don’t understand designing Bluetooth headsets so they won’t play audio stored on the phone, or designing phones to not play music through Bluetooth headsets, whichever way it (doesn’t) work.

I want to be able to easily transfer a phone number from my address book to the person I’m talking to.

I want a “do not disturb” feature, don’t make any sounds at all for the next __ hours. I wrote more about this at Cell Phone Do Not Disturb

I want cell phones to use standard plugs for USB transfer, battery charging, headset. What a waste to design, manufacture, sell incompatible cords! I am Much Less likely to buy a phone that makes me pay extra for special cords and chargers.

I would like to be able to read common document and ebook formats (txt, pdf, prc, OpenOffice).

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By glerner – February 13, 2011

Web site design, Keep Vertical Spacing even with Em-based layouts

Keeping the vertical spacing even, especially when having text line up in multiple columns, is a way to make your web site look better.

This article, “Keep vertical spacing even with Em based layouts – Vertical rhythm calculator” http://jameswhittaker.com/journal/em-based-layouts-vertical-rhythm-calculator/ makes it easier to make your CSS style sheet keep the vertical spacing even, and since it is based in ems, the spacing will stay even if the visitors to your site adjust the font size to their preference.

Posted in HTML, CSS, PHP.

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By glerner – December 23, 2010

Safely Remove Hardware icon Missing?

Has your Safely Remove Hardware icon disappeared from the Task Bar? There is a Quick way to get it back!

From the Start menu, pick Run, type cmd and you will have a Command window.

Paste this into the command window (copy to clipboard, switch to Command window, Alt-Space, Edit, Paste):
C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll

You will get the technical version of the Safely Remove Hardware tool, and the icon should be restored to your Task Bar.

Posted in Computer Use, Windows.

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By glerner – December 18, 2010

How does SPIRIT make groups powerful?

Success

Partnership

Imagination

Respect

Integrity

Trust

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By glerner – October 3, 2010

Real Estate Investors Build Your Buyers List

Have you ever thought about making money, investing in real estate? So many people have, and wondered how they could learn everything needed to succeed.

There are thousands of houses for sale, or foreclosed. Finding them is easy, once you learn how.
Finding buyers is harder, if you want to make money as a real estate investor.

There is a new website with custom property listing software, a real estate investor system, and training program, that makes marketing property and locating home buyers much easier than anything I’ve seen in years of looking into real estate investing. Plus they show how to market other products that home buyers would be interested in, to the people on your list, so there are several extra ways of making money.

You can even use Twitter and FaceBook!

There is an introductory price, ending sometime Sunday 10/3/2010, so check it out right away! The intro special even has no monthly charges, which would save a lot of money over the years you’ll use this.

It’s so well priced you can almost certainly afford it now (or maybe you’ll easily find “business investors”, since it’s really affordable)! But sometime Sunday the price goes much higher…

As you check this out, you’ll almost certainly find some parts of you are interested and have questions, so you can contact me and I’ll help you pick whether you want, to get started now.

http://www.lernerconsult.com/recommends/propertyfr

Posted in Internet Marketing, Real Estate, Small Business.

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By glerner – October 2, 2010

WordPress: Image Too Big? Resize It

A client blog site had an image that was too big for the theme, so it stuck out over text.

You could use a dedicated image editing program to change the size of the image, using algorithms that keep the quality of the image as good as possible. One great program is Irfanview (free, I used it to add the red boxes on the images on this page).

WordPress however has built-in tools to crop (change what portion of an image gets displayed) or scale (proportionally adjust the display size of the image) . No having to FTP the image to your computer, edit it, upload the changes, and change the size  in your HTML. Here’s how to do it:

New Image:

You can resize an image when you add it to your post, just use the settings on the Add an Image screen:

WordPress Add Image screen
(This image was too large to fit in the post, at 612 x 512 pixels, so I picked Medium (300 x 166). Click on it to see it full size.)

In the Size section, pick “Full Size” if the image is below about 500 pixels wide, depending on the Theme you are using. (The size is shown in the bottom right of the section, as Full Size. The image being imported when I grabbed the screen image was 448 wide by 249 tall.)

Existing Image:

Click on the Media button. You’ll see the Media Library. Find the image you want to edit.

Hover over the image, and you’ll see a link to Edit it. Click that link.

On the Edit Media screen, click the Edit Image button.

This screen lets you crop the image (only display a portion of it). Drag the mouse over the picture, adjust the edges of the white crop area by dragging the square handles (click the Image Crop “Help” link to see keyboard hints), click the Crop icon (the left-most icon). [Note: Some Themes and some Plug-Ins will interfere with the Crop feature, you may have to disable plug-ins or crop outside of WordPress.]

Click the Scale button to show the detail fields. You’ll get fields to adjust the size. As you change the width or height the other gets automatically adjusted to keep the proportions correct. Many Themes have room for about 500 pixels wide.

You will need the new URL for the picture (the old URL will have the original size). This is at the bottom of the Edit Media screen, in File URL.

After you’ve saved your changes, go back to your post, and put in the URL of the new image. (If you don’t, the post will keep showing the original image…)

 

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By glerner – August 11, 2010

KeyCaps Font for Computer Documentation

Font Designers: I need a KeyCaps Font!

I’ve searched the web for a web-licensed keyboard font that has the Windows Flag, Macintosh Clover, all the special keys that are needed for computer software instructional pages. Instructions like “Type your name, press <Tab>, type your email, press <Ctrl>-<Alt>-E (on OS-X, press <Clover>-E), and <Left-Click> OK.”

Don’t need all the alphabetic, number, punctuation characters, just the special keys, that are legible and look good next to normal sized text, on web pages.

Prefer it be a separate font, so can use simple commands like <KBD>e</KBD> to display <Enter> or <KBD>c</KBD> to display <Ctrl>, or <KBD>4</KBD> to display the Clover. None of those awkward <#65432;> character codes, that don’t even show in most character maps!

See http://www.lernerconsult.com/keycaps.php for what I’ve worked through, using KeyCaps CSS and Wingdings. But a good, free font would be Better.

It would even be good marketing, since all those computer writers would recommend your web site…

Posted in Computer Use, HTML, CSS, PHP.

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By glerner – August 9, 2010

Copying iPhone Files to/from OS-X or PC

Software to copy music, pictures, files between your iPhone and Computer. Most of the best solutions are cross-platform (OS-X, Windows, and sometimes Linux). All are free or inexpensive. Copying is much faster using USB transfers than WiFi.

Continued…

Posted in Computer Use, OS-X, Windows.

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By glerner – July 8, 2010

Implement Your Marketing and Training Programs

A lot of people would love to market more effectively. Or take powerful actions from that real estate workshop. Or take their team to the next level, using the new team management course you took.

If you are thinking about Internet marketing in some way, or are actively marketing, I would like to talk with you.

Note: If you have the new Product Launch Formula version 3, I’m very interested in helping with your launch. I am currently (July 2010) managing all the tasks for a launch, and as I do this launch I can begin helping you get ready for yours.

Implementing What You Learned

Very few people who take a big workshop, or buy a powerful training program, or get a home-study course, whether it’s on Internet marketing, or real estate, or sales, or management, ever get most of the great material implemented. “Great course! Uhh, what do I do now?”

I’m very good at making clear action plans from “all those courses we’ve taken”, and leading people through them, step by step, even through the scary parts, so we can get what we wanted when we bought the courses.

Making the Computer Stuff Much Easier

I’m also good with the “computer stuff” that’s essential for marketing well (installing scripts, setting up blogs, starting web sites, getting information into and out of databases, editing audio). The stuff that so many people dread, or that stop people even when they know what to do, because it is so much work.

I am an expert at using WordPress for business, for marketing, in ways that are easily used by everyone involved.

I also have Butterfly Marketing software, that many top marketers use to implement their marketing and product launches.

Most people are not interested in doing that computer stuff. They’ll struggle through it if they have to. And many people who could do it, shouldn’t be putting a lot of time into doing it, when it would be better for them to focus on what is next to build their business.

Let’s talk!

As we talk, we will quickly find out how I can help you get what you want from that big program you took, and what implementing it well will bring your organization.

George

Contact Me

Posted in Coaching, Internet Marketing, Small Business.

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By glerner – July 3, 2010

Wildcard DNS on a Shared Hosting Account

I needed Wildcard DNS for WordPress 3.0, for the new Multi-Site features. I have WP3.0 Multi-Site (Subdomains) working on a shared hosting account (the $4.95/month kind). It might work on a lot of hosts, I’m using LunarPages.

I set up wildcard DNS from CPanel, simply putting * (asterisk) in the subdomain name, for each domain I want blogs for (mydomain.com, myotherdomain.com, mythirddomain.info, etc). Continued…

Posted in Website Hosting, WordPress.

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By glerner – June 27, 2010

Sea Levels Expected to Rise Through 2100

A report on how global warming, melting the ice in the Arctic, Antarctic, and mountains, will affect California. Conservative estimates are 1.0 to 1.4 meter increase in sea levels, by the year 2100.

From Pacific Institute: Sea Level Rise

• Under medium to medium‐high greenhouse‐gas emissions scenarios, mean sea level along the California coast is projected to rise from 1.0 to 1.4 meters (m) by the year 2100. Maps for the entire coast of California demonstrating the extent of the areas at risk are posted at www.pacinst.org/reports/sea_level_rise
• A 1.4 meter sea‐level rise will put 480,000 people at risk of a 100‐year flood event, given today’s population. Populations in San Mateo and Orange Counties are especially vulnerable. In each, an estimated 110,000 people are at risk. Large numbers of residents (66,000) in Alameda County are also at risk.

Posted in Fascinating Science, Real Estate.

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By glerner – June 26, 2010

Small Business / Entrepreneurship Products

Enjoy these Small Business and Entrepreneurship products, you can download and start using them now, to improve your business.

Please add comments about the ones you get and use. What do you like (or dislike) about them?

Business / Investing : Small Biz / Entrepreneurship

1: Home Staging Course - Professional Home Staging Training Course

Hot Untapped Niche--Starving CROWD--Profitable, Under-Served Niche. Home Staging Training Program Is Easy To Sell - Great Niche Topic For Squidoo, Hubpages, Blogs, Etc. This Business Is Hot & Women Want To Be Home Stagers! Virtually Zero Refunds!

2: Starting a Catering Business

Are You Passionate About Parties? Do You Live To Cook? Now You Can Realize Your Dream By Starting A Catering Business!

3: Starting a Day Care Center - Starter Kit

Complete Business Package To Help You Easily And Quickly Start Your Own Profitable Home-based Day Care Business!

4: How to get more clients and keep them coming back!!

This book covers tried and tested methods to help massage therapists boost their businesses. Online and offline marketing is targeted at all levels. There are so many starving massage therapists out there, craving a product just like this, you'll want to get yours today, so you wont worry about not having enough clients rates again... completely no risk.

5: Candle making business ebook to run candles making business

Candle Making Practice Ebook, 50 % Commissions On Sales With Amazing Affiliate Materials. Candle Making Practice Targets People Who Want To Make Candles At Home, Run Candle Making Business And More! Http://candlesmakingbusiness.com/affiliateresources/.