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How to Create a Gallery or Portfolio to your Blog?

There may be time you need to add a gallery or portfolio to your blog to showcase some of your works. If you are using wordpress, you can add a gallery easily to your page or post by using its media features. The only disadvantage of this method is that when you click on the individual thumbnail of the images, it will open up a new window showing the image in it. Imagine if you have many images, it will open up many new windows and become cumbersome when you want to view all of them. There should be a better way to display it, for example, let the gallery run like a slideshow.

How to replace Headway Search with Google Search?

Once your blog grows bigger and with more posts or pages added, Headway search may not be powerful and accurate enough for the search. You can try replacing it with Google Search instead. It is not as intimidating as one thought; you can either install a Google search custom wordpress plugin or manually add in the Google search code.

How to Create Tables Easily for Your Wordpress Blog?

If you are trying to create a table for your wordpress page, it could be really tedious and painful. Generally, people including myself will use a html editor to code the table separately before copying the code into the wordpress page then use a CSS stylesheet to control its look.

How to Redesign a New Site while Your Old Site is Still Live?

I have an old static website (about 5 years old, see how time flies) with a blog hosted in an old server. It is hightime for a good upgrade and redesign since some of its technologies/scripts are dated and not supported by latest browsers. In addition, there are other goals I hope to achieve for this redesign and update.

How to Display Blog Content into Multiple Columns in Index Page?

One of the common questions most blogger asked is how to display wordpress blog content into multiple columns ? There are many reasons for doing so, some may want to save space on their blogs’ home page and display as many posts as possible. Some may want to attract their readers to stay a little longer and at the same time, make their blogs look content-rich and mature.

MailChimp Email Subscription Box caused Visual Editor to Hang

I was trying to add the MailChimp Email Subscription Box into my blog when I realized it was a mistake. The Visual Editor in Headway Premium seemed to have problem with MailChimp. Once I have pasted the MailChimp email subscription script into the Text/HTML/PHP Leaf, the Visual Editor seemed to load forever – it has hung!

Why Google Adsense not Appearing in Text Leafs?

I was trying to add Google Adsense into the Category and Archive Sections but just had no luck getting it to work. I went to the Visual Editor and add in a “Text/HTML/PHP” Leafs (Text Leafs in short hereafter) on top of the Category and Archive sections but there was nothing displayed.