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  • WordPress Offers “Sticky” Option

    A new feature at WordPress for users with FSE (Full Site Editing) themes now provides for an assignment of blocks as having a “sticky” (fixed) position. I learned about this while reading an article at WP Tavern and have since applied it to my primary navigation, which now remains in place at the top of my web site.

    To do so, I defined the Navigation block as a Group block and set its position to “Sticky”. In the templates, I also made it a top-level element. Because I use a Cover block in my header, it was also necessary to add the following CSS (Appearance > Additional CSS) to keep the menu and header image plum…

    header {
    margin-block-start: 0 !important;
    }

  • 14 Years On WordPress

    14 Years On WordPress

    Today marks the 14th anniversary since I began using WordPress. Prior to that, I was using the Joomla content management system.

  • WordPress Contributor

    WordPress Contributor

    If you’ve had a request by someone who would like to share content through your web site – per some acceptable renumeration, or other agreement – you might consider inviting them to do so by issuing them the user status of Contributor.

    Once granted, the Contributor has no publishing or uploading capability, but they can write and edit their own posts until they are published – published by the site Administrator. Learn more here: Invite People To Your Site.

  • WordPress Trivia

    As a user of WordPress, it may at times be advantageous to invite people to contribute to your web site. And, it’s also easy – visit this link to invite people to your site. Make sure to include the correct email address which that user has registered on WordPress.

    Also, you may not know that there are over 40,000 beautiful and useful copyright-free images which you can use on your site. These are provided courtesy of Pexels and can easily be added to your content – visit this link with information on how to use the free photo library.

    Themes. There are many themes available for WordPress users, dependent on which membership plan you have – visit this link to see WordPress themes.

  • Most Likes

    Most Likes

    I received this graphic notification from WordPress yesterday evening, at approx. 6:00 p.m.. When I checked this morning, though, the final number tallied 279 likes. The more, the merrier!