Category Archives: Wordpress

How to add a gallery in WordPress

We’ve got a few new authors in The Garage and there have been some questions about how to upload a pretty gallery of images so another tutorial is in order. First, a bit of history: In the early days of … Continue reading

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How to write a post in WordPress

For some readers, this may seem like an overly simplistic post, but when bringing a new writer on board there is always a bit of a learning curve if they haven’t worked with WordPress. Thankfully, WP is the standard of … Continue reading

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WordPress 3.0 is up and running

With all the excitement and hoopla over the introduction of WordPress 3.0, I have to say that I’m somewhat underwhelmed. Sure, I’m only looking at user interface stuff right now, but many of the new features are not supported by … Continue reading

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Please excuse the appearance

Yes, it looks a bit messy here at the moment. I’ve been using BumpyStick to test out the Agentpress child theme for Genesis and my Thesis layout is a bit mixed up. Over the coming days I’ll fix things up … Continue reading

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Time for a break, I’m tired of fighting

I’m testing out a few ideas for one of our other projects. I’d like to add in a free classifieds section to host free ads for special interest cars to drive some additional traffic. Given that WordPress is known to … Continue reading

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Killer Plugin: LinkWithin

We’ve played around with a few different related posts plugins but all of them seemed a bit boring visually. Then, I stumbled across LinkWithin. The way LinkWithin works is the company crawls your site to capture categories, keywords and the … Continue reading

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Testing, testing!

Testing out a few twitter plugins for our live coverage of this weekend’s Rolex 24 at Daytona. If you see some funky stuff, you understand why! And the winner, for our purposes is…..ThinkTwit It is the only Twitter plugin I … Continue reading

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Thesis theme in play for real

I’m really excited to say that I have installed Thesis on The Garage and modded it to resemble the previous version. I’ve done it. Me. Techno no mind! The more recent versions of WordPress are so user friendly, that when … Continue reading

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Nuking Easy Adsense plugin

The Easy Adsense plugin does not appear to be playing nicely with Thesis, putting ads beside images since the update. I’ve been using the Quick Adsense plugin on another site and it is easy to set up, so I think … Continue reading

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Feature test

Another test of images. The previous one used the standard WP image function, this one is using the Thesis image management. The image is uploaded as you would normally, then you add the image link url to a post image … Continue reading

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