wp Pulling Your Hair Out Over WordPress 2.8 v Issues?I have. And if you’ve seen me, you know I have a lot of hair to pull. I really like WordPress as my blogging platform. I don’t foresee changing it any time soon. However, with every upgrade in our techie world, as much you hate to hear it, but it’s true, it’s realistic to expect that sometimes the bugs will show up.

I was working on my blog the other day and I added a TweetMeme pugin so my tweets can be tweeted easily; however, it really slowed down loading my blog. So I decided to look for another one.

In my search I came across couple other interesting plug-ins that create widgets on your blog, but when I installed it I could not activate it. You are supposed to drag the widget to the sidebar and I could not select it. It just would not let me.

Issue: cannot select and drag widget

Solution: in the widget window click on the screen options in top right and click on enable accessibility mode

I now use TweetThis plugin. So we’ll see how it works…the only bad thing is that I lost the tweet count that TweetMeme was showing on my site. I guess you can’t have everything – at once. icon wink Pulling Your Hair Out Over WordPress 2.8 v Issues?

Another heavily needed feature for me was to hide certain pages. WordPress templates do not do that automatically – at least most of them don’t.

This feature comes very handy when you have pages that you want to be a part of your blog, as an extension of it, but not listed in the main menu. Perhaps your landing pages, sales letters, bonus pages and so forth.

There are bunch of sites giving you examples of and/or actual coding but, honestly, I’m not that into it. I like to do a lot by myself for the pure satisfaction that I can say I know how to do it now and I did it, but here is a limit to that as well.

I search the plug-ins and decided to go with Exclude Pages from Navigation. It was super easy to install and hide the actual pages. I’m looking forward to it as it’s something I wanted for a while but never came across that plugin.

Issue: hide specific pages from main menu

Solution: install the plug-in Exclude Pages from Navigation and simply mark the pages you want excluded.

As much as I spent time searching for different answers, I was glad when I came across their support page even though that came much later in my search. It was brought up to me by one of my peeps on Twitter or Facebook, and I did not mark it before it disappeared from my radar, but I will be  grateful to him/her for a long while.

For more helpful information to make the best our of your blog, visit here:

http://support.wordpress.com/

Aleksandra

P.S. well worth creating an account and looking around for your answers.

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