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Lesson 9 - Part 2 - Adding Text From Other Software

Lesson 9 – Part 2 – Adding Text From Other Software

Understanding that there are two views and two modes of the text editor, adding text to a WordPress post or a page still has some tricks associated with it. There’s a bit of difficulty that you need to be aware of in order to easily add text to these pages. We’re going to take a [...]

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How to Create a 2 Column List in a Post or Page

This member asks how to create a 2 column list within the WordPress content area.  I demonstrate a method using 2 unordered lists each wrapped in a div tag that I style so that they float side by side.  This involves using the HTML view of the WordPress editor and adding code to custom.css Video [...]

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Troubleshooting Issues in the WordPress Visual Editor

This member finds that when she formats text in the WordPress visual editor that formatting gets applied to text that she intended to be unformatted. We discuss how HTML formatting is applied in the visual editor and talk about strategies to make sure that only the text she wants formatted is actually formatted. Video Transcript [...]

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Troubleshooting Text Formatting in the WordPress Editor

This member is having some difficulty with formatting text in the WordPress text editor. We look at reasons why text formatting might not work properly. We also install the TinyMCE Advanced text editor and adjust the size of text using the font size selector. We also discuss how the text editor treats HTML. Video Transcript [...]

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How to Position Images Within a Post or Page

In this session we discuss how to position images within a post or page. Moving images around in text requires you to know something about how images and floating of text work together. We show how to float an image next to text. We don’t recommend dragging the image around because it does not always [...]

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Is there an alternative text-editor besides Netbeans for the Mac?

A member is having a problem installing NetBeans on her MAC. She made several tries but she still gets an error message. We discuss potential solutions to her installation problem, we talk about a couple of other Mac based code editors (Taco & Coda) and we discuss the importance of error checking and syntax highlighting. [...]

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