Category Archives: WordPress

Video tutorials and step by step instruction for editing posts and pages of your WordPress website. Plus more help like managing photo galleries, embedding YouTube clips etc. If you have any tutorial requests please email hello@cookieweb.ie and don’t forget to leave any questions in the comments below each post.

Formatting your phone number for iPhone

By Orla Duncan | Published: January 30, 2012
Formatting your phone number for iPhone

When people visit your website on smartphones e.g. iPhone you probably want them to be able to click on your phone number and have it dial directly from their phone, right? Well that’s easy. Just format your phone numbers like this +countrycode areacode phonenumber For example: +353 44 9361520

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Adding Images to Your Article

By Cookie Web | Published: November 4, 2011
Adding Images to Your Article

In every blog or article on WordPress its good to have images on a page, it gives the user a better experience and also gives a bit of style to your article or blog. Adding Images In the text editor place your cursor where you want the image to appear. Click the ‘Add an image’ [...]

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Embedding a YouTube Video on WordPress 3.1+

By Orla Duncan | Published: September 28, 2011
Embedding a YouTube Video on WordPress 3.1+

Embedding a video in WordPress 3.1 and later versions is even easier than before. Follow these easy steps to display your video on your website. NOTE: for older versions of WordPress (up to version 3) please see this article on how to embed a YouTube video on your website using WordPress 3.0 and lower Step [...]

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How to Resize Images for your Website

By Orla Duncan | Published: May 26, 2011
How to Resize Images for your Website

Digital cameras these days come with such high specs that your photos are likely too large to insert on the pages of your website. When displaying images to your website, we recommend they are approx. 800 x 600 pixels Why are smaller images better for the web? they load quickly – large images have large [...]

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Video: Embedding a YouTube on WordPress

By Heidi Jermyn | Published: December 2, 2010
Video: Embedding a YouTube on WordPress

This step by step video tutorial shows you how easy it is to embed a YouTube video into a page on your WordPress website. As always if you have any questions or comments please use the comment form below Note: this method works up to WordPress version 3, from version 3.1 onwards the way to [...]

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Video: Adding & Updating Image Galleries

By Heidi Jermyn | Published: December 2, 2010
Video: Adding & Updating Image Galleries

We’ve created a video tutorial to show you step by step how to add to and update your image galleries on your WordPress website. We use the NextGen WordPress plugin to add feature rich galleries to our Cookie Web websites – it’s an excellent plugin and quite easy to use. Check out the following YouTube [...]

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Add Images to NextGEN Gallery

By Orla Duncan | Published: June 7, 2010
Add Images to NextGEN Gallery

If you have the NextGen gallery plugin installed on your WordPress website you can easily add images to a gallery by following these instructions. Before you begin… A little bit of preparation is required before you start adding the images to your website. Organise your files – gather all the images you would like to [...]

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Editing a WordPress Page or Post

By Heidi Jermyn | Published: June 4, 2010
Editing a WordPress Page or Post

Note: a page refers to your website pages that contain static content e.g. an about us, contact us, our services. A post refers to a news item, an article or blog post. If you are familiar with Microsoft Word or Open Office then editing a page in the WordPress editor will be easy enough to [...]

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Adding Attachments (PDF, etc) to Your Article

By Orla Duncan | Published: October 8, 2009
Adding Attachments (PDF, etc) to Your Article

Catalogues, brochures, application forms, etc – sometimes you just need to add attachments ( known as ‘media’ in the world of WordPress) to your articles. The following is a How To Guide to adding media to your website. Assuming you have not yet added your PDF into the Media Library… In the text editor, position [...]

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The WordPress Editor Toolbar

By Heidi Jermyn | Published: June 16, 2009
The WordPress Editor Toolbar

After adding your text to a page or post you’ll probably want to add some formatting – bold, italics etc. Directly above the text editor box you’ll notice the editor toolbar. Below is a full list of all icons on the toolbar with a description on functionality and implementation. Formatting Buttons Bold – to strongly [...]

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