How to edit a page in WordPress using the classic editor

The question comes up from website owners often enough that I have decided to create an instruction page on how to edit one of your WordPress (WP) pages.

Structural Overview

First things first, let me give you a birds eye view of the difference between pages and posts. In WP a “Page” is a part of your website that stays fairly static. You may change the pictures or text occasionally but as opposed to “Posts” they are the structure of your website. For example, your “About Us” page or your “Contact Us” page. On the other hand, “Posts” are what would be considered your blog. Sometimes posts are used for something other than a blog, for example, product listings, but you can think of it as a type of page that you will create often. Posts can be organized with categories and tags and can be displayed either on a category archive page or on a page of posts. These are typically shown with the newest at the top.

Create a shortcode for a dynamic link to a webform using Contact Form 7

Here is the problem, a series of products in a shopping cart that, rather than having a ‘buy now’ button, they have a button that takes the customer to an email form that has the product information in it.

Health reform as it relates to small businesses

As everyone knows, the Supreme Court, today, ruled in favor of health care reform. I get a Facebook feed from the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) and they put out this very informative fact sheet for small businesses. It looks like there will be some benefits and some drawbacks to the new law for …

We’re in the news!

Sea-Wing Designs is featured in this article in the Olympian and The News Tribune. From the article: Jason Earrame, 42, shared that story Tuesday, one of 15 business owners and soon-to-be startup business owners who took the microphone and stood before a crowd of about 100 people to talk about who they are and the …

Adding New slides to Portfolio Slideshow Pro

If you are using the WordPress Plugin “Portfolio Slideshow” in your website, here is a brief to do list for adding new images to your slideshow: Note: This plugin is no longer supported

How to add a 301 redirect to your .htaccess file.

This is a quick tutorial on how to permanently redirect a page within your website to another page either in a sub-domain or to a new site all together.Â The reason you might do this is, as in the case of one of my clients, you have set up a new shopping cart on a …

Where Google is headed

I just read an interesting blog post on the direction Google is going with it’s algorithm changes and threats to website owners called Google’s Greatest Fear. To sum it up, Google is only as powerful as we make it. (Same goes with most corporations I guess) We make websites and by default, we allow Google …

SWD Newsletter

Spring 2010

Ah, flowers are blooming, people everywhere are sneezing, the sun actually gets up about the same time I do; this must mean the spring Sea-Wing Designs newsletter is here!

In this issue we will cover a bit more about SEO (Search Engine Optimization), and I will talk about how page structure helps the web crawlers of the world categorize your web site. I will also introduce you to a new add-on that is offered by Dreamhost as one of a couple interesting web tools that help you analyze the effectiveness your marketing and SEO. Also, our Savings of the Month and what is coming next!