Insights by Justin Downey

January 2014

POP or IMAP, What’s the Difference?

The vast majority of website hosting providers offer email with their hosting packages. Most of those offer users a choice on how to interact with the mail server, POP or IMAP. Which should you choose and what’s the difference anyway? POP3 versus IMAP POP3 is useful in checking emails from a computer that is in …

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November 2013

WordPress User Management

WordPress comes right out of the box with unlimited numbers of users and 5 user roles (permissions, essentially). To access, view or add users, go to Users >> All Users. Summary of capabilities for each of the 5 user roles: Administrator – can access to all the administration features within a single site. Editor – can publish …

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November 2013

Password Protected Post/Page 404

In WordPress, you can set the visibility of any single post or page to password-protected. Many themes will even come with a custom password protected message/form. That cool feature can cause issues after WordPress version 3.4, but there IS a fix. WordPress has this functionality built into its core but some themes customize the wording …

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November 2013

Add/Edit WordPress Pages

Before we get into editing and creating web pages, it’s important that you understand the difference between what WordPress calls ‘Posts’ and ‘Pages’. For this article, let’s look at adding and/or editing a WordPress page. Editing a Page Log into the Admin Click on “Pages” in the left sidebar You’ll see a long list of …

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November 2013

Add/Edit WordPress Posts

Before we get into editing and creating web pages, it’s important that you understand the difference between what WordPress calls ‘Posts’ and ‘Pages’. For this article, let’s look at adding and/or editing a WordPress post. Editing a Post Log into the Admin Click on ‘Posts’ in the left sidebar Here’s a list of all the …

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November 2013

Introducing jHost: Fast Hosting

JDM Digital is proud to announce the launch of a new (wicked-fast) web hosting company, jHost. The website, the technology behind it and even it’s several digital properties were all done in-house, here at JDM.

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November 2013

Widget Basics

WordPress Widgets add content and features to your Sidebars. Examples are the default widgets that come with WordPress; for post categories, tag clouds, navigation, search, etc. Many plugins add their own widgets as well. Widgets require no code experience or expertise. They can be added, removed, and rearranged on the WordPress Administration Appearance > Widgets panel. The …

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November 2013

Add Image(s) to a Post

Adding images to pages and posts in WordPress is super-easy. It DOES depend a little bit on your theme’s setup, but generally, here’s how it’s done. Adding a Featured Image Go to the post you are working on. On the right-hand side, towards the bottom, click the link that says “Set featured image” It’ll open …

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November 2013

Blank White Pages in WordPress

If your WordPress site is not responding or stalling or just showing a blank white page, this most likely results from a corrupted/hacked plugin or theme. When loading the site in your browser, it’ll continuously load until it times out, or load a blank white page. Here’s how to troubleshoot it. WP-Config.php Issue Incorrect information …

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November 2013

Locked Out of Your WordPress Site?

Locked yourself out of your own WordPress site? It happens to the best of us. Here’s how to get back in.

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November 2013

How to Update WordPress

Whether your company’s website is built on WordPress, Joomla, Drupal or any other CMS, just about everybody recommends you backup your database and files before you upgrade the core. That’s easier said than done, so let’s take a look at a few ways to backup all that precious stuff before you upgrade and possibly shoot yourself in …

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November 2013

What’s a Shortcode?

Shortcodes are a little WordPress magic that allow you to add really cool functionality without even needing to know any programming. There are essentially two kinds: [this-kind] and [this-kind] Stuff in between [/thiskind]. Place a shortcode inside your post or page editor and WordPress will replace it with the fancy code you don’t need to know. The difference? [this-kind] replaces …

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