I decided to consolidate most of our Facebook pages into one. As a small business we don’t have the time to maintain a Facebook fan page for every product we make, so I’ve created a single brand page – DIYWebmastery – and have had to start gathering Facebook likes again from the beginning. When you…More

A few times recently, I’ve been writing a post, only to find that when I click on the Preview button within the WordPress dashboard, instead of previewing the post, I get a 404 page not found error. This is annoying as it means you have to publish the post just to view it, and you…More

Did you wake up to find this message in your WordPress site’s stats this morning? It seems there is a bug over at WordPress.com, but the new is that they’re upgrading us to the stats provided by jetpack pretty soon, so why not take the opportunity to install the JetPack plugin now. To do this…More

It’s easy to make a convincing video without having to spend a fortune, nor have a bunch of technical skills. This article explains how and gives some examples of finished videos that were created with no effort at all. You need to create scores of videos now in order to market with them effectively – you need an easy way!

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Are you nervous about using a real photo of your own face as your avatar online? You can use a symbol, maybe your logo instead, or if you want something more personal, you can create a line drawing or even a cartoon version of yourself, if you want to hide your actual face! This article shows you how.

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Are you using Gmail? If so you can easily block emails from people you wish you’d never heard of by using filters. The emails will still be received, but will be automatically deleted.

Once in the trash they will disappear after 30 days. You need never see another email from your unwanted contact. There is a video here to show you how to do it.

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Placing code samples effectively into a Wordpress Post can be tricky, that is until you start using the fabulous Wordpress Plugin Syntax Highlighter Evolved. Without it, the HTML of the post and the HTML of the code excerpt can become entangled. There are quite a few settings available on the plugin and it may be a case of trial and error to see what works best for you. This video explains more.

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When you leave a comment on a blog, if you haven’t set yourself up with an avatar your comment will be branded with a default or a generated avatar as chosen by the blog’s owner.

Here are some examples of default and generated avatars used on Wordpress blogs for commenters with no avatar of their own.

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