There is a lot of functionality that a plugin can add to your WordPress configuration, but for some reason I can’t feel comfortable relying simply on plugins for everything.  When something simple comes along that can be done without a plugin, I would much rather go that route.  With that said, I had been looking for an easy way to …

For a lot of us, transitioning from one post to another can be difficult to do.  I try to do it with a Post Thumbnail, but it just seems like it is missing something.  There is an easy way you can separate posts with a separator image and all you have to do is modify your theme’s style.css file.

Until recently, I have never really been a huge fan of laptops.  I am given one for my company, but until I decided to get married I had no reason to be in the living room.  Now that my time can’t be dedicated to being in my office on my desktop PC, a laptop has become a necessity.  Although they …

There are many things about WordPress that make life easy… and a few that are a real pain in the butt.  One of the pains is the login form’s logo and url.  If you are like me, you want to brand your sites and doing so gives the site that extra touch of personalization.  Not to mention, if you are …

I can’t tell you how many times I have written an article, hit publish, then realized that I made some mistakes.  It doesn’t matter how much I proofread a post, it happens all the time.  With that, our readers get these articles delivered to them through my feed.  Wouldn’t it be nice if I could delay the feed a bit, …

As our world becomes more digital and the number of “personal” interactions with other people declines, we rely more on email and texting than phone conversations.  There are a few drawbacks to this and I can bet that you have found yourself on one end or the other.  As our interactions move more to email, we have to realize that …

Every enthusiast faces the time when they have to do something to their computer and realizes they can’t find the tool they need to do it.  There have been plenty of times when I scratched a trace on my motherboard and couldn’t find my soldering gun or needed a Torx screwdriver and lost the heads.  It would be nice if …

My Windows woes continue.  This time around, I have been trying to upgrade my Laptop running Windows Vista to Windows 7 Professional.  After initiating the upgrade process it would stall at 62% and give no indication as to what would cause the issue.  Well, after a bunch of research and much less hair, I have an answer for you. 

In my efforts to get my company’s demo rooms up and running with the solutions we offer to our customers, I have been faced with numerous Windows errors and issues.  The one I have been faced with today was an error message stating “The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation.”  However, I am the administrator and I …

If you run your site on WordPress and using it as a content management system, you may have realized that there are categories of posts that you don’t want published on your feed.  There is no easy way to do this through WordPress by default, but that doesn’t mean that this isn’t possible to accomplish.  You can eliminate certain categories …