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April 16, 2011 · 6:44 pm

WordPress Blog Problem with Apostrophe in Caption for Picture

Ryan O'Connor - 13 K's and game-winning hit

Every now and then I find the solution to something. Kind of like the blind squirrel and the acorn!

I use pictures in almost every blog entry. A couple of days ago I put in a picture of a baseball pitcher named, “Ryan O’Connor.”

When I looked at the posting, I noticed that there was a little block where the apostrophe should be. That block had to go so I resigned myself to posting his name as, “OConnor.”

I did a Google search a while later and found someone who had had a similar problem. Their solution, however, seemed so bizarre that I didn’t even try it at first.

Later, I caved in and tried their suggestion……..and it worked. You go into the HTML and where the apostrophe is supposed to be you put & #39 ; You wouldn’t have any spaces between the & the #39 or the ;

So for mine it went like this – O & #39 ; Connor

Give it a try. It does actually work!

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January 18, 2009 · 1:40 pm

WordPress: Adjusting the setup of wording under inserted image/captions

(This is another entry about using a WordPress Blog. When things don’t work the way I would like them to, I try to see if adjustments are possible. If I can’t figure things out on my own (most occasions), I do a Google search. If that fails, I contact my mentor. On this one, I got results from the Google search. I turned up a helper named, Mark McLaren (McBuzz Communications), who walked me through to solutions – Thanks, Mark)

What I wanted to do, on my Writing Scots blog, was to put “Ben Gaskill 13 rebounds” on two separate lines with “Ben Gaskill” on one line and “13 rebounds” on the second line.

In VISUAL, I put the cursor where I wanted the picture/caption to land. I set up the picture with the caption in the Media Library and inserted it into the beginning of a paragraph. I was disappointed that the “13” was on the top line with “Ben Gaskill.”

How did I fix the caption setup?

I clicked out of VISUAL and into HTML.

I then found where the data was for the picture/caption.

The first line in mine started with “; __ATA.cmd.push(function() { __ATA.initVideoSlot('atatags-370373-6a9133ad8353d', { sectionId: '370373', format: 'inread' }); });

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November 18, 2008 · 9:31 pm

WordPress: How to create an underlined link to an article within a post

(I am putting this together because of my own frustrations in trying to figure out this process on my own. I did countless Google searches as well as looking through the WordPress FAQ and came away empty. My tech mentor in Maine talked me through it successfully.)

Find an article that you want to use in your blog.

Click on the link url to highlight it.

Right click on the highlighted link url and choose COPY.

Go into your blog and select WRITE.

Write your post. Within the post, highlight the word(s) that you want your readers to click on to get to the article.

Click on the chain symbol (10th symbol from the left).

Paste the article url into LINK URL. Leave TARGET, TITLE, and CLASS alone.

Click INSERT.

The word(s) you highlighted in the text should now be underlined and a different color than the rest of the text.

Your underlined word(s) will not open until you have PUBLISHED the post.

When the post is published, you can go into your blog and click on the underlined word(s) and the article will show up in SNAP SHOTS. If you click on the url at the top of the SNAP SHOTS box your article will appear in readable size.

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November 18, 2008 · 7:28 pm

WordPress: How to create an underlined link in your blog to a photo

This explanation is about how to put a photo into your WordPress blog and just have the underlined title showing in your blog. When the reader clicks on the underlined word(s) a picture comes up.

Go into Write so that you are where you would put a blog entry together.

Click on the symbol beside “Add media:”

Go into Media Library – I will assume that you have already downloaded pictures there.

Beside the photo, you want from the Media Library click SHOW.

Highlight the LINK URL and COPY it by going into EDIT for that purpose.

Click on the gray area to get back to WRITE POST.

Where you have the written part of the post, highlight the word(s) that would best refer to the photo you copied the URL of.

Click on the chain symbol (10th symbol from the left).

In LINK URL paste the link url you copied from the media library of the picture.

For TARGET, use “Open link in a new window.” Then INSERT.

The word(s) you highlighted in the post should now appear underlined and in a different color than the rest of the text.

At this point, you CANNOT click on the underlined word(s) and have it open into a picture. You can only do that after you have PUBLISHED the post.

Go into the blog as a reader would and click on the underlined word. A small version of your picture will appear in SNAP SHOTS. Click on the URL at the top of the SNAP SHOTS box and the picture will be the size you wanted it to be.

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