Do you want your Twitter followers to be notified each time you post a new blog entry? If yes, you can use TwitterFeed to sychronise your blog with Twitter in order to automate your Twitter posts.
Here are the steps to set it up:
Step 1: Login to the Twitter account that you want to link your blog with TwitterFeed.
Step 2: Login to TwitterFeed (use the login options provided) to create a new feed. Once you have successfully logged in, you would see the following screen:

Click the  “Create new feed” link.
Step 3: …

Adding a Youtube video to a blog is very easy. You can either choose to add the Youtube video to your content page or sidebar.
Add YouTube videos to side bar:
Step 1: Go to the Youtube site to play the video that you want to embed into your blog.You should see the following when the video is playing:

Copy the video codes displayed in the “Embed” box
Step 2: Go to your WP admin/Apperarance/Widget and Add a Text widget to your sidebar. Paste the video codes onto the Text widget and click Save …

A favicon is a small image (16 x 16 pixels) that appears alongside the url address of the browser’s address bar.

Favicons will also appear beside a browser’s “favourite” url listing when a site with favicon is bookmarked as show below:

Creating a favicon
You can create a small image (16 x 16 pixels) using Fireworks,  Photoshop or GIMP and then use IrfanView to convert the image to .ico format. In this case, you must save the file as favicon.ico or it will not work.
Add favicon to your blog
Upload your favicon.ico file to …

Gravatar stands for “Globally Recognized Avatar” where an avatar can be a picture of yourself or a cartoon/logo/image which represents you or your business as shown on the left. By now, you would have noticed pictures or cartoons alongside blog comments. These are the avatars of blog visitors who maker their comments on gravatar enabled blogs
How does it work?
For avatars to appear beside a visitor’s comments, the WordPress blog must have a Gravatar plugin installed or are gravatar enabled.
If you want to place your own avatar alongside your comments in …

When you have enabled your sidebar widget to include pages, the page titles of any pages that you have created will be automatically listed as a link on the sidebar.
There are times, however, that you may not want your pages to be listed as such. In this case, it is very simple to exclude such pages by following the procedures:
1. Logon to your WordPress admin screen
2. Get the IDs of the pages to be excluded. Click here to see how it is done.
3.  On your WP Dashboard, click the Appearance/Widgets
4. …

Knowing how to hide wordpress pages from the header horizontal navigation menu is useful especially when you:
1. have a number of pages and do not want to clutter the navigation menu with your page titles.
2. want to create a special page for the purpose of linking from your  posts or other pages.
Below is a way to hide unwanted page links from your navigation menu:
1. Go to your WordPress Editor (Appearance section) and open the header.php file and look for the following codes:
<?php $children = wp_list_pages(’sort_column=menu_order&depth=1&title_li=’);?>
2. Add the following codes (in …

Whenever a post or page is created, WordPress will create a unique ID.
In cases where you need to get the ID, open your WordPress admin/Dashboard and click the relevant Post or Page button to display a listing of your posts or pages.
In your post or page listing, hover your mouse over the post or page title and the status bar (bottom left corner) of your browser will display their respective IDs as shown in the example below:

In case you do not see the status bar at the bottom of …