If you have ever spoken in front of an audience, then you probably know what slideshare is. If you haven’t, then slideshare is a place where people upload their presentation slides, so others can see it. Very often these speakers also embed their slides in their blogs. You can either use the slideshare embed code which works fine, or you can make it much easier for yourself by simply adding it to WordPress oEmbed. This would allow you to simply…
Continue Reading »How to Prevent Youtube oEmbed from Overriding your WordPress Content
Have you ever been to a site where you notice that media elements such as youtube videos override other content? This can happen if you have drop down menus, floating bars, lightbox popup etc. Well as designers, this get really frustrating for us. In the past, you would have to add ?wmode=transparent to each video embed code, but with WordPress 2.9, embedding videos have gotten much easier. All you have to do is paste the URL of a video, and…
Continue Reading »How to Add Google+ “Add to Circles” Badge in your WordPress Site
Recently, one of our users asked us how they can add the Google+ “Add to Circles” Badge in their WordPress site. In the past, we have shown you how to add the Google +1 Button your WordPress Posts. In this article, we will show you how to add the Google+ “Add to Circles” Badge in your WordPress site. Preview of how a Google+ Badge looks like: Before we begin, you should note that this is only for Google+ Pages not…
Continue Reading »How to Add Pinterest “Pin It” button in your WordPress Blog
Recently while monitoring our blog stats, a new traffic source was popping up enough for us to notice. This traffic source was Pinterest. We started using the platform and saw great potential in it therefore we have added it on List25. In this article, we will show you how to add the Pinterest “Pin It” button to your WordPress blog. First thing you need to do is paste the following script in your footer.php file right before the body close…
Continue Reading »How to Split WordPress Posts into Multiple Pages
Yesterday we wrote an article on the site showing you how to increase pageviews and reduce bounce rate in WordPress. One of the tips we mentioned was splitting long posts into multiple pages. You can see an example of how we split our posts into two pages or even into five pages. After writing that article, we got a lot of inquiries from people asking us multiple questions. How do you split the posts into multiple pages? I put the…
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