If you do not have an excerpt, WordPress will take the first part of your post and use it as the excerpt. This does not always make for a very good teaser. Using excerpts is simple. Here’s how to do it.
How To Use Excerpts – Part 1
What Makes Good Business Copy?
Guest author Dan L. Hays gives us some great tips on how to write good business copy.
Content Specific Widgets In Your Sidebars Using Widget Logic
Suppose you have a post that is all about energy alternatives and you want to show a video in the sidebar rather than in the post. But, you only want the video to show up when this particular post is being read. Here’s how to do it using conditional logic!
How To Insert Videos In Sidebars Or Your Home Page
Inserting a video in your sidebar or your home pages is pretty easy. While there are some plugins out there that will do this, I prefer to use our trusty old text widget. We’ll use a beautiful YouTube video called Murmuration. Tess Wixted introduced me to this video in November of 2011. We’ll place this video into our sidebar. The same procedure can be used to embed the video on your home page.
How To Insert Videos Into Your Posts
There are more than a few ways to insert a video into your posts. I use a plugin called Viper’s Video Quicktags. It’s robust, flexible and easy to use!