www.I-Can-Travel.com

Explore a broad range of handicapped-friendly travel opportunities and discover special cruises, tours and discounts. Learn how to plan your trip properly and what questions to ask before you set out on your journey. Make I-Can-Travel.com your “how-to” site and your first port of call before any destination so you can travel with confidence and fewer unpleasant surprises.

www.DivorcedHappilyEverAfter.com

Divorce is tough, but Marlene Clay makes it easier to get through by helping you and your ex communicate, co-parent and move on with peace. She walks her talk, having gone through divorce herself, and has created a new relationship with her ex that serves everyone involved – including the ex’s new wife. Though it takes two (or more) to make it work, Marlene can help you be the change you want to see.

www.WikiBuzzEvents.com

Leveraging the power of the Internet – social media and social networking – to make your event a success is just one part of what Chicago-based professional organizer, Cheryl Vargas, does for you through WikiBuzz Events. She gets you organized, too, so your business runs more efficiently, allowing you to gracefully handle all the new business the buzz she creates will bring your way.

www.BetterSchoolFood.com

Dr. Susan Rubin is the founder of BetterSchoolFood.org, a not-for-profit whose mission is to raise awareness of the connection food and children’s health, behavior and learning. For me, this project was great fun, and a great example of living and working in that sweet spot defined as the place where your deep gladness meets the world’s deep need.

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So far, you might be thinking, “Ok, Suzanne…what’s this got to do with me? I can see just fine. Why are you telling me this?”

This particular accessibility feature just might be of handy use to you if a) your theme has several sidebars or b) you have lots of widgets in your sidebar or c) both. Drag and drop is great, but drag, scroll and drop gets a little out of hand and hard to manuever sometimes. So read on…

So, go to your Widgets page (Appearance => Widgets). See up there in the upper right hand corner of your Dashboard…’Screen Options’?

Click it.

You’ve got only one screen option for this page: ‘Enable accessibility mode’.

Click that link. It’s a toggle link, which means it’ll turn into ‘Disable accessibility mode’, so that if you want, you can turn that option back off.

Say you clicked on the ‘Add’ link for the calendar widget. The screen would then display the calendar widget options, and ask you which your sidebars you wanted it in, and in what position.

So you see? In this case, accessibility mode makes it easier for me to add widgets to my sidebars without have to scroll for miles on my widget page. If your theme is rockin’ this many sidebars, then you might find it easier to add widgets to them this way, too.

After playing with it in accessibility mode, I’ve determined that it’s much easier (at least for me, with this many sidebars) to add widgets this way and to move widgets around from one sidebar to another, but if I just want to reorder them within the same sidebar, it’s easier to do with drag and drop, so I just disable accessibility mode and do it that way.

Thanks again, Reagan, for the handy tip!

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• YouTube

• Vimeo
• DailyMotion
• blip.tv
• Flickr (both videos and images)
• Viddler
• Hulu
• Qik
• Revision3
• Scribd
• Photobucket
• PollDaddy
• Google Video
• WordPress.tv (only VideoPress-type videos for the time being)

So, how exactly do you do it?

First, get the URL of the video. I’ll use YouTube as the example. The image to the right shows you where to find the URL for a YouTube video. (You’ll find that block on the right side of the page.)

All you need to do to embed something into a post or page is to post the URL to it into your content area. Make sure that the URL is on its own line and not hyperlinked (clickable when viewing the post).

For example:

Check out this cool video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTDNLUzjkpg

That was a cool video.

WordPress will automatically turn that into a YouTube embed when the post is viewed. (And for those of you who avoid the HTML editor like the plague, this works using the Visual editor, too.)

Pretty slick, huh? And easy, too!

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Now, if that’s not incentive enough to upgrade, I don’t know what is! Have you upgraded yet?

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While you can add both categories and tags on the fly, it’s a good idea to have at least a category structure in place at the outset. This requires some planning and forethought, yes, but hopefully you have done your foundational work before jumping in, so it shouldn’t be all that difficult to come up with a basic category structure for your content.

WordPress requires that every post be assigned to a category and comes with a default category called ‘Uncategorized’. If you don’t assign a category to your posts, WordPress will automatically assign it to ‘Uncategorized’. This looks kind of cheesy, to be frank, so it’s a good idea to rename the Uncategorized category to something else that is more appropriate for your content. Alternatively, you could leave it as is, and if you ever see ‘Uncategorized’ show up in a category listing, you know you’ve missed assigning a category to one or more posts and can fix them then.

Adding Categories

There are two ways to add categories. You add Categories beforehand by clicking ‘Categories’ in the Posts menu.

Category Name is exactly that. Category Slug is typically the uncapitalized, hyphenated version of the Category Name. So, for example, if you create a category called WordPress Tips, the Category Name will be WordPress Tips and the Category Slug will be wordpress-tips.

Unlike tags, categories are hierarchial. You can create sub-categories of any of your categories by assigning a parent category. All posts assigned to any sub-category of a parent will show up in the archive listing for that parent category, but only posts assigned to the sub-category will show up in an archive listing for that sub-category.

Category descriptions do not display by default, though some themes do display them. If your theme does not display category descriptions on the public part of your site, you can still use them as “notes to self” and enter a description as a reminder of what kinds of posts belong in that category. The category descriptions do display in the category listing, so this can be a quite handy way to document your thinking when creating your category structure.

Categories can also be added “on the fly” by clicking the ‘Add New Category’ link in the Category section of the post edit screen. Note: When adding categories this way, the slug is created for you, and the description is blank. You can, however, assign a parent category.

Use only one category per post. This is considered best practice for two reasons. First, it is less confusing for your readers, and second, you avoid potential duplicate content issues with the search engines.

Adding Tags

There are two ways to add tags. You add Tags beforehand by clicking ‘Post Tags’ in the Posts menu.

Tag Name is exactly that. Tag Slug is the uncapitalized, hyphenated version of the Tag Name. So, for example, if you create a tag called Must-Have Plugins, the Tag Name will be Must-Have Plugins and the Tag Slug will be must-have-plugins.

Tag descriptions do not display by default, though some themes do display them.

Tags can also be added “on the fly” by typing the tag and clicking the ‘Add’ button in the Post Tags section of the post edit screen or by choosing from the most used tags in Post Tags. Note: When adding tags this way, the slug is created for you, and the description is blank.

Use multiple tags per post. Use tags to identify sub-topics covered in the post. Tags can cross Category boundaries and provide additional ways to “drill down” into your content and keep your visitors on your site longer. You can still do effective SEO on your site without using catgories or tags.

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www.DrSusanRubin.com

Creating better health is easier than you think. Dr. Susan Rubin is a holistic nutritionist and leader in the world of food and health, as well as a mother of three. Her specialty is helping busy moms create better health for themselves and their families. She also helps people with cancer and other chronic illnesses thrive, not just survive.

www.CoachSteveGunn.com

New Year’s resolutions are usually short-lived attempts to fix problems by will power. Instead, join Coach Steve Gunn and take small sweet steps, get great support and succeed with meaningful goals.

www.WellnessTalkRadio.com

Wellness Talk Radio with Kris Costello is an Independently Produced Program dedicated to Broadcasting interesting, inspiring and honest information to help people create lives of wellness and health.

www.GretlClaggett.com

Gretl Claggett is a writer, speaker and workshop leader whose mission is to help others create more authentic lives: personally and professionally. Here on her site, she offers a selection of her essays and poetry and her soon-to-be-published book.

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Light gray is the default background, and now available are medium and dark gray, blue (light, medium and dark) and green (light, medium and dark.)

Have you created your sales page/email squeeze page/affiliate product landing page yet? No need to change themes or hire me – check out what Deborah has to say about WP Sales Page:

I SO love this product I feel compelled to write a testimonial. I am truly not skilled by any stretch of the imagination in anything remotely computer-esque. And beyond that I’m mostly afraid that one wrong move or mouse click and my website will turn into a chaotic mess of unreadable words or disappear altogether. So my confidence level about being able to do it myself wasn’t high.

But I did need to put up a sales page and do it quickly, and in one of those lovely moments of synchronicities, announcement of the WP Sales Page product arrived that very day. I took a chance and I’m really happy I did.

It is so easy to use, with instructions that are clear, complete, and totally understandable. The beauty of it is that there are examples of what things will look like; you choose what you’d like, and then simply copy and paste the HTML code. Everything I needed to put up a sales page was included. I was absolutely able to do it myself, in a very short time, without any help, with no frustration, tears, or hair-pulling. None! I can’t tell you how delighted I am. I’m absolutely recommending this to everyone I know.

Deborah Weber
Feel Good Energy Shift

Get your copy of WP Sales Page today!

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www.WP-Sales-Page.com

This is the support site I built for our new product, WP-Sales-Page. It’s not a theme, and it’s not a plugin. It’s a page template that works in any WordPress site – no matter what theme you’re using!

www.TheSoulApproach.com

Our spirit knows what we need and when we recognize it, we can begin the journey to expand our awareness and our unlimited potential. Join Scott in taking the steps to fully understand who you are on a soul level and recognize the unique gifts that you have to offer. The tools for expanding your power are already within you. You can access this power to create the life that Spirit has intended.

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Introducing Jan Stringer and Alan Hickman’s new book, “BEE-ing Attraction: What Love Has To Do With Business and Marketing”. You definitely want to check out the “BEE-ing Attraction Manifesto”!

www.RiskADay.com

Laura Biering has expanded her blog, RiskADay.com, to be a multi-author blog with a different guest author every day of the month – all writing about taking risks. A risk a day keeps you on your way to a life of meaning, joy, and heart!

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Toni’s been fascinated with how color and vibration either helps or hinders her life. She uses this knowledge to enhance her life using wall art and jewelry as a means of doing so. Feng Shui elements are incorporated into the wall art to maximize the benefit for you and anyone else exposed to it. All her pieces of jewelry have vibrational qualities that can be used to aid your body in healing itself.

www.THFashions.org

Treasure House Fashions is a non-profit organization promoting the dignity and self-esteem of women, particularly women in crisis, by providing gently-worn, quality clothing. Outward appearance is not an accurate reflection of your worth, but it can affirm the treasure that you truly are!

www.ClearPathway.com

Lesley Ingves is a certified career coaching specialist and helps folks define their right vocation through her 5-step C.L.E.A.R. method. We converted her HTML site (including that snazzy landing page that fronts the site) into WordPress, giving her the flexibility to control her own content that she was looking for. In addition, by pulling her WordPress.com blog in under her own domain, now her blogging efforts will give her site that extra SEO kick that blogging is so good for!

www.CravingSecrets.com

Diana Walker has published an e-book to help you curb your cravings for all those unhealthy foods and drinks and this is the mini-site we created for her to promote it. She also has an affiliate program for her product, so if you’re interested, you can join that, too.

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What was my bright idea? To figure out a way to create “traditional-looking” sales pages in my WordPress site. I thought it would be a piece of cake, but alas…I was wrong. Really wrong.

Now, you all know how I love WordPress. But those dang sidebars and headers and footers and other “distractions” were giving me fits. In some themes, I was easily able to remove the sidebars, other themes, not so much. In none of them was I able to get rid of the header and the footer without seriously messing things up.

All throughout this time, I was constantly Googling for solutions. I found themes that were built specifically to create sales and landing pages, but some were too bloggy looking for me, and others were…well…sorry, but they were just butt-ugly.

Besides, I like the theme I’m using and want to keep it. I didn’t want to have to change themes because then what would become of the rest of my content on my site? I didn’t want EVERY page to have a sales page format – just a couple here and there.

Then, I found FlexSqueeze, a theme with 5 built-in squeeze page templates. It’s a great theme, and I really like it. But I don’t want to build every theme I build for the rest of my life in FlexSqueeze, no matter how flexible and customizable it is.

Then, just before WordPress Summer Camp started, I found another solution…more of a hack, really. It worked, but the pages weren’t editable within the WordPress page editor, so that was only a partial solution.

Fast forward to last week. I woke up two mornings in a row vaguely aware that I’d been dreaming about sales pages in WordPress. I laughed because that used to happen to me all the time when I was a programmer in that other life I had. (I swear I wrote as many programs in my sleep as I did awake!)

Friday morning, I decided enough was enough. I was going to figure out the solution to my problem – period. Another hour of Google and a couple hours poking around in the WordPress Codex and I had it!

WP Sales Page was born! It’s not a theme and it’s not a plugin. It’s a page template with its very own CSS style sheet (which is how it can look so different than the theme that is installed at the site.) It works with any theme and is completely self-contained. You just upload two files and one folder to your active theme directory and you’re in business!

I tried it out on a few of my own pages and because it worked so well, I decided to make it my very first product so others could benefit, too. Saturday was spent creating the bonus graphics and code examples included in the package, and Sunday I built the website for it and wrote the documentation. Monday morning, I had my first sales.

WP Sales Page might be just the ticket for you, too. Check it out!

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Even before he graduated Life University in 1996, David K. Scheiner, D.C., had a strong desire to find ways to more fully express life and wholeness, both physically and spiritually — and to help others reach that same goal. Chiropractic allowed him to realize that aspiration. This site features his new book, Chiropractic Revealed: One on One with the Great Masters of a Misunderstood Profession. Check it out!

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