Understanding Plugins and Widgets

Published by admin under In The Begining,Website on April 21, 2009

Matthew caved and decided to help me out last night. I was having a lot of trouble getting my plugins  installed through wordpress. I was trying to use their search and install feature. It kept giving me an error saying the file already existed, which it didn’t. After he took a look at it, and couldn’t figure out why it was doing that either he decided we’d do it manually. I don’t know why I didn’t do that earlier. After unzipping the plugin we simply put it in the content-plugin file, uploaded it to the host using file zilla, and whala! After refreshing wordpress it showed up in my plugin section. How nifty huh? I wonder if it had anything to do with my host. There is some type of safe-mode bull-shit. After installing it was completed I simply had to activate it and set up each plugin’s approite settings.

I feel like I am walking around in the dark bumping into crap when it comes to this stuff.

I’ve been playing with wordpress, and so far so good. I really like how you control practically every aspect of your site without having to have hardly any knowledge of html. For example you even have control over your sidebar using widgets. You’re able to drag and drop the widget of your choice to create a line-up that is satisfactory to you vs. a cookie cutter blog layout. Another neat feature I discovered is that by using the text widget you are able to insert html. That allows you to insert counters or even adsense code. The same goes with pages. You can create new pages, and put them in whatever order you want. Theoretically you don’t even necessarily have to be creating a blog to use wordpress. It’s a pretty useful content manager.

My next mission is this template….blah