I've Been Locked Out of Twitter or How NOT to Change Your Password

September 7, 2009

There it is, a screen shot of the situation. I’ve been locked out of Twitter! There is an honest explanation, I promise. The short story: I changed my password then while updating it sent through too many wrong password requests. The long story: While checking my Twitter 3rd party connections I found one that was [...]

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@ssnRose Oil Doorway Oil

September 6, 2009

My wife, the artist Susan Rose, has come up with some great artwork that make fantastic Twitter Backgrounds. There is a tag on the side that say’s: Bkgrd by @SSNROSE You may use one of these pictures as your Twitter background as long as you don’t cover Susan’s tag. Click the image for full size [...]

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Contact Form 7 Plugin for WordPress

September 1, 2009

I wanted a simple quick contact form for my WordPress blog Twitter Goals. I wanted people to be able to suggest goal ideas. I looked at some of the contact forms out there and was suprised that the one I used to use, cformsII was not available from the WordPress Plugin library. I do suggest [...]

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Custom Header Graphic for WordPress Blog

August 31, 2009

For the blog I am currently creating, I have a custom graphic that I will use at the header of the blog. I am creating this blog with WordPress and am using the Thesis Theme. These steps involve the Thesis Theme. There is a plugin at goes with the Thesis Theme that allows you to [...]

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WordPress Settings for a New Blog

August 31, 2009

One of the first things you will want to do is change some of the WordPress Settings. From your WordPress Dashboard: Click -> Settings You can always change the Title of your blog here. If you plan on showing the Tagline, either under the Title or in the Title Tag, then here is where you [...]

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Change WordPress Themes

August 31, 2009

WordPress comes with two themes currently. However there are lots of “themes” that you can add to WordPress. There are lots of free themes as well. However, I choose to work with a theme that is maintained and upgraded as WordPress gets better. I’ve been using the Thesis Theme for WordPress for over a year [...]

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Secure WordPress w/ Security Plugins

August 31, 2009

I like to make my new WordPress blogs secure. In addition to removing the admin Username (last post) I add two plugins. I use Secure WordPress and WP Security Scan. From your WordPress Dashboard: Click -> Plugins Click -> Add New Enter “Secure WordPress” to the search box. Click -> Search Plugins Click -> Install [...]

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Installation of WordPress

August 31, 2009

This is the next step to creating a WordPress blog. My previous post was the first step. Here is what the Installation page of WordPress looks like: Enter your Blog Title (You can change this later) Enter your E-mail Check the box to “Allow my blog to appear in search engines like Google and Technorati.” [...]

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Steps to Make WordPress Blog

August 31, 2009

I recently created a new WordPress blog that showed a daily goal for people on Twitter. After running it a few weeks I found some problems. 1. I didn’t like the name I had chosen 2. I didn’t like the URL I had chosen 3. I have learned new tricks and want to use them [...]

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Change your Username on Twitter

August 26, 2009

Did you know you can change your Username on Twitter? If you picked a name a long time ago that you are tired of, you can just change it on the Settings page. Twitter will automatically tell you if a new name is available. I changed my Username from YanceyG to 4uqi. I wanted to [...]

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