Are you still using Internet Explorer 7 or 8? If so, you may have some trouble using the Wordpress administrative tools. In particular, we have gotten reports of the Page Layout thumbnails not working in those browsers. From checking with the development community, we have discovered that this is a known javascript bug for users of IE 7 and IE8. At present, there is no known fix for it. We suggest that folks use an alternate browser such as Firefox or Chrome, or upgrade to Internet Explorer 9. Since there may be Banner compatibility issues with IE9, Firefox may be your best bet. Contact the UMW Help Desk regarding the currently supported Firefox installations for Windows. … [Read more...]

Flickr Users: If you don't want to go through the trouble of creating a new custom slideshow, you can just embed your slideshows into your pages and posts. It's easy. View the tutorial> … [Read more...]

It's not just for webmasters anymore. This tutorial gives instructions on how to make a slideshow on your home page. Talk about spiffy! View the tutorial > … [Read more...]

Have you migrated into Wordpress and now have an ugly, mile-long menu on the left-hand side? You're not alone. Contribute had only one way to create dynamic navigation, and that was through the side navigation. So many sites had to resort to a long side menu to get their link to show up on the main page. Not any more. Wordpress gives you so many more tools for organizing links to your content while still giving them home-page exposure. For more information, explore our new tutorials on "Culling Long Page Menus." … [Read more...]