Got a question you’ve been dying to ask, but you weren’t sure where or when to ask it? Well, here’s a collaboratively edited question and answer thread that will be devoted entirely to the sharing of information from one to another. We’re very fortunate to have quite a few “professional” bloggers and developers amongst us, as well as one that even runs his own forum.
Some examples of the most frequently asked questions include:
1. How do I bold a comment, or change a font to Italic? 
2. How do I post a picture?
…………..3. How do I make those smilies?
4. Why aren’t my YouTube videos showing up? 
5. How do I post a single “Tweet”?
These are just a few of the most commonly asked ones… or perhaps you have a question about the site itself? Also, feel free to practice what you’ve just learned too. As “Jello333″ put it, “Have like a “scribble” page where anyone trying to learn new techniques can do it all in one place. Here, lemme try this…. nope, didn’t work… how ’bout this… aha!” 
Oh, and don’t let me forget to mention one of our newest Treepers, “nettles18″, as she was the inspiration behind this post.
I’ll start things off by reposting that very helpful tutorial “Diwataman” wrote on posting Tweets…
I’ll have to try this technique. I’ve been using a completely different method, but mine don’t look as nice as this.
Good morning early bird!
Mornin’ Puddy! Having a hard time getting motivated.
Love this post, btw!
Ad rem : How do you post a news article ? I tried copy and paste on the part that said share ….
Just copy/paste the URL that appears across the very top of your screen. (Make sure you’re already on the EXACT page you want viewed by others..)
Why does my candle above at the Prayer request tab turns blue sometimes?
Maybe yours is evil.
only happens once in awhile…..is it Mossad Puddy’s evil eye on moi?
Aggghhhhhh just saw this! Puddyyyyy No!!
Omg, crosses herself 3 times…now running to church hoping not to see any black cats on way!!
Pfffftttt….everybody knows that truly “evil” eyes are blue. Mine iz brown, ergo good for nothing but snooping.
Uh oh!!!!!
Ok, ok, still creeped me out
According to my Google-fu it means….
Blue:
Communication, truth, peace, calm, loosing weight, wisdom, understanding, protection, harmony, inspiration, truth, patience, health and happiness, luck, communication, loyalty, peaceful, cooling, contentment, healing, idealism, harmony, devotion, meditation,
Oooooohhhhhhmmmmmmmm……..
so intentional part of site? I don’t have a file on me somewhere
It may be a “hot key” issue – I used to get lotza “blue” thing issues until I killed the whole laptop one day. Turns out that all computers come with “hot keys” enabled – I haven’t had lots of things since I disabled mine.
I usually on me phone, thus typos coz of the teeny,weeny, keys and late afternoon eyes get lil wonky, especially Fridays
Turn your contrast 3 clicks to the left. Balance 2 clicks to the right and the Tone level should be turned 36 clicks to the right. It will then be a very bootiful chartreuse.
& pray tell…WTH does chartreuse color mean?
Who knows? I just have a yellow flame. I just wanted to see if someone ever listened to me.
Chartreuse is half of a Packer fan’s wardrobe. The other half, of course, is green.
E – you big meanie!
Well, yeah….. if you have a MAC!!
And you, young lady, don’t be a hater.
But MAC users make such good targets!
Now, if I only knew how to really use it. Then you could get me!
Nothin’ like a big strong Texan with a high-powered Mac.
Strong back and small brain!
HAHAHA!!!!
I have heard about those “strong backs”…..
Thanks for this thread Ad rem— I am a lowly PC user, maybe I’ll find some info useful.
Practicing…..
That there was the work of the legendary “Diwataman”…….
Hah!
How come your “Hah” has a bluish glow to it?
?
Iz sorry, what I do now
please.don’t.bring.the.bazooka.kittah.out!
Not to worry! Rumpole keeps ‘em at his forum.
Thank you! Practicing a type.
You guys respond fast! Thanks again.
LOL, my bold type needs some work.
Put the characters [] before your comment, then [] after your comment. In brackets, hoping that the text will remain!
It didn’t work, try this:
“”“” before your comment, then “”“” after your comment.
That didn’t work either. Anyway, put the character “less than”, then the word “strong”, then the character “greater than” before your comment, then the character “less than”, then the character “/” then the word “strong” then the character “greater than” after your comment.
“‘”"huh”"”"
Okay, got it:
Here goes:
Test
Test
worked! Tho I don’t know what
block quote means ?
Use block quote when you want to indent and italic a quotation, like this one:
Thanks!
Or this one from The Merchant Of Venice
Note: the “comment” must have a space before & after the formulas
I usually use a carriage return. Same is true when you paste a YouTube video link.
b for bold works
i for italics works
bold italics
A+ Fan!
is the word [bold]?
I have to run. I’ll practice later. “[] thank you []“
See above. I finally got it!
Thank you for posting that Pat!
Just Google HTML coding or ask anyone under 30.
Yours was an excellent idea nettles…ergo, I could not wait to pounce on it!
Gotta go feed the thunder lizard – I, myself, need lessons in smilies and gifs!! Later, gators!
I gotz to get to bed….it’s almost 6am here.
How about making a page with all the stuff we need and putting a link button somewhere for absent minded old farts like me? Like next to the Post Comment button? A page that is not affected by the special text characters so we can actually see the examples rather than playing a game. Look at poor nettles18 right now, she has been reduced to playing a game for 5 year olds in an attempt to communicate with admin.
Actually nettles, I think this is part of a new Trepper initiation game where the old Treppers sit back and laugh their asses off as you try to figure out the secret codes.
I did a page at “random topics” before I saw Puddy do this epic
It is Public, no need to register at the site… the simple things I have learned by trial and error…. more can be added… once I give kitteh treats to Puddy and find out more secret stuff.
http://randomtopics.org/viewtopic.php?f=76&t=736
What else u like to know rumpole?
If you look at RT there are a few text enhancements that work here… are there any others? I can not get font size, color, underline to work here. Not sure what else there is?
You get a kitteh treat for each NEW text enhancement you reveal.
underline
Dang, read somewhere that you
text
in order to underline
test
test
i promise I’ll give up if this doesn’t work
I can’t get underline to work.. or color or size… I think only Admin can do those.
Maybe its something that could be changed, or maybe Admin don’t want that?
Check my comment to you….under the fat cat.
Nope….it’s down to my left!
All those tests I did were exactly as ur instruction for underline, even tried a capital U
Nada worked for me
Here are 3 more HTML “Tags” you might find useful….and they’re supported in all major browsers.
1. Underline: underline
2. Bigger Text: Bigger Text
3. Bulleted List:
Not so fast…… I already ascertained color only works for admin… and I think underline and big the same.. (and small)
I will check em all:
Underline
Bigger
Ginger
Tabby
Black
Nope, nope nope… no kitteh treats until you fix it
OK ONE kitteh treat for trying… but those things don’t work for us kittens… only you cats
I’m not dropping this and walking away….scroll to the bottom for the “rest of the story”.
(Have spent an exciting evening with my date, WordPress Codex.)
This is a wonderful idea, Thank You.
I do have a question though and have always been to embarrassed to ask. Don’t laugh, but what does “bacon” mean.
Maybe this will help explain it… http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/bacon
However, this might be a step too far? http://www.amazon.com/Accoutrements-Bacon-Scented-Car-Freshener/dp/B000SSVZLW/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1359554161&sr=8-10&keywords=tactical+bacon
Not sure about that. Wonder if it would smell like old bacon grease when it gets old.
Thank you, thank you.
Now I’m hungry.
I’m taking a pound of bacon out of the freezer as we speak.
I’m sorry but I did laugh at your question
Hey Hmmmph!
Well, I didn’t laugh, but the only answer I could come up with when I first saw your question was, “It means dead pig. In little strips.” I thought that would sound kind of smart-alecky, so I did not post.
(ADD: And as clueless as I am about much of the stuff being learned on this thread, I really shouldn’t go getting smart-alecky… 
)
“but what does “bacon” mean.”
Well that depends if it is a stand alone bacon or combined with another word such as “making bacon”:. Bacon is synonymous with the word good….
Most succinctly well put sir!
And it is good!!!.
Fantastic idea. I’ve always wondered about the italic/bold thing.
So bear with me while I try it out…
Test
Test
Woo-Hoo! It worked!
That’s awesome!
However, I got a strange message after I hit ‘Post’.
It said not to touch the browser for five minutes and then hit ‘Refresh’.
So I went and got some coffee, came back, hit ‘Refresh’ and it told me that I’d already posted that comment. Never seen anything like that before.
Is that normal?
I’ve gotten that twice this week, x’d out & cleared browser of cookies & history to be safe.
Good idea, ctdar. I’m glad it wasn’t just me.
Do you ever get a blue candle above? Still think that Mossad Puddy screwin wich me!
I only get a blue candle if I highlight it. You sure your keyboard isn’t haunted?
Great, now I got Mossad Puddys evil eye and an iPhone ghost after me
Just don’t get it….why some peeples say Iz evil???
mommy!
I think the WordPress servers are having some issues.
This idea rocks! I wonder if there’s some way it can have a permanently-displayed little button to click, so it could remain visible, and directly accessible, without having to “site-search”, once it becomes historical?
Ha ha…I think WordPress is doing some major site maintenance. I got caught in the “limbo” of the “Don’t touch your browser! Wait 5 minutes” page on my last post. Now on this one, the cursor is not showing as I type.
Anyway I’ve been dying to know how to embed a link into a word or phrase.
This is what worked for me when I last belonged to a blog years ago:
[URL=http://yourpethatesyou.com/a-horse-dressed-like-a-poodle]All-purpose pet[/URL]
OK. Here goes – hitting “Post comment” now.. Will it be game? Or just lame?
Oh, $&%^#@*&%&*%&!!!!!
Well, OK. Anybody know the right way to do it?
All-purpose pet
You need to use HTML to make it look like this:
lessthansymbola href=”http://yourpethatesyou.com/a-horse-dressed-like-a-poodle” title=”All-purpose pet” rel=”nofollow”greaterthansymbol;All-purpose petlessthansymbol/agreaterthansymbol
lessthansymbol
It looks like a formula for exploding bacon or something.
OK, let’s see if I fall on my face again. Here goes:
<http://www.dogshaming.com/2013/01/what-red-penrel=nofollow'/>
*Picks self up off the floor, tries again…*
What red pen?
YES!!! YES!!! YESSSSSS!!!!
THANK you, Patriot Dreamer!!
LOLOLOL!!! Outstanding choice of “test” website!
I know!
Dogs! It had to be done. It was an idea whose time had come.
I just noticed you colored my “Red pen” text – red!
You’re too cool for school, Puddy,
Here’s the way to do it:
Stellap – That’s pure genius to post it like that! Thank you so much for taking the time and trouble. I love the way posts look with those embedded links.
Thanks again! ♥
You’re welcome. It’s the only way I could figure out to do it. I put the code in word, screen shot it, pasted it into Paint, cropped and saved to a file. Then uploaded to Photobucket, and copied the html code from there to a comment block here. It takes longer to describe than to do it!
I knew it took you time, skill and effort. It was brilliant.
It’s great, because when we try to post instructions here on the forum, as soon as we hit “Post comment”, the set of instructions morphs from caterpillar to butterfly, so to speak, lol.
test
;Text you want
test2
Text you want
Test using my template
How to Bathe a Kitten
Gosh, Rumpole, wish I had seen YOUR tutorial sooner. I’ve been following this one.
“How to Wash A Cat”
Hunhh….I knew I was right to never try to bathe the 30 or so cats I’ve owned in my life.
Precisely! I honestly can’t remember ever bathing a cat.
Well then obviously you’ve never had a cat who liked to spend the night with his best friend… who lived under the house… with her babies… who, like the mom, looked an awful lot like possums.
Thanks… I posted that in my pet advice dept
I did post a different How to wash a cat somewhere here today?
I think the secret mentioned there was get the cat stoned on catnip first.
Rumpole – LOL. That one’s like the ultimate “anti-catwash” video.
But, catnip was just legalized here in Washington State! Oh, wait…sorry. I got confused. That was marijuana.
Wretched timing that it coincided with the demise of Ding-Dongs and Twinkies.
My cats have a patch of it growing in the garden…. not sure if it’s legal here or not? The sods would just blame me if we got raided.
Thanks Patriot Dreamer.
The problem you have .. having to type “Lessthansymbol” etc… is why I have done explanations at RT… it looks a lot clear when you see the symbols themselves.
But I used your example n and it works!!!!
I know.
I tried a few different ways to get the code to show up, but they didn’t work. But stellap found a brilliant way around it (see above)! 
Yes.. that shows it as an image… but people can’t copy paste that and use it as a template. I made a simple template… all will be revealed:
http://randomtopics.org/viewtopic.php?f=76&t=736
so does like [img] image link [/img] work here?
[img]http://i.imgur.com/GcOb6Xi.jpg?1[/img]
I have tried ever which way but loose… IMG will not work here.
To get an Image to show in a post you have to bribe an admin….. but they do work for kitteh treats.
I think COLOR is the same deal? Please Admin correct me if I am wrong.
True about pictures; you have to have admin rights, and I don’t know why. As for color, I’m not sure about that. Do you mean color text?
Yes…… Say red or blue text
I tried using the same code as I see when Sundance has RED text at start of a thread.. and it did not work for me.
Like this: Happy Birthday
I see you got it right in your Random Topics post.
But it didn’t work for me when I posted here… I’ll try again
Type text here
I updated your text (didn’t show any code) with correct code for RED.
Looks like it only works for Admin?
Strange.
I also tried small, big and underline (u)… they are listed as codes that work… but not here at CTH for me.
I did type the code…. I guess it just vanishes when non-admin try it
I’ll try one more time
Type text here
I pasted in the code.. I’ll replace arrows with brackets just to show what I pasted in
(span style=”color:#ff0000;”)Type text here(/span)
Practicing posting a tweet:
Practicing my fonts:
This word should be bold , while this word should be in italics
Yes!!!!!!
Congratulations!
Thanks! Your notes did it!! Thanks again.
There is one more, which is when you want to put a line through a word, like this:
deletedTo do that, use the letters “del” instead of “strong” or “em” or “blockquote”.
I just use the with the word “strike” (no quotes) in between. Then, at the end of the line or word, the same thing with “/strike” between the same carats.
I don’t use quotes, just del. I was referring to my notes I did for her earlier.
Add: In other words, the letters del between the greater than and less than symbols to turn on, and the characters /del between the same symbols to turn it off.
test?Heh, heh, heh, heh…cool!
It’s also fun to use the strike-through code.I just put it in my previous comment. Hi, Elvis!
You’re a peach. A sweet lil’ ol’ peach! And that ain’t somethin’ I’d ever joke about!
[del]Does this work?[/del]
Nope… It don’t.
It do now.I know “strike” works, testing just “s”
NOPE!!!
Testing large and small
Text
Text
Nope
Try underline
Text
Nope
Try again
Using big
I can do it too!!(sigh) oh well. I thought “We Get Questions” might have included stuff like:
How can I meet the neighbor down the block without seeming obvious? or
Why do my dogs block the TV?
seriously, this was a good idea fer sure and I’m expecting to see more highly crafted postings with flare. Good job !!
LOL@ ottawa925.
How do I leave a comment?
…
…
…wait…never mind…please drink responsibly.
Still thrilled with my new toy!
One more round, and I promise I’ll put it away for the day.
Here’s some beautiful animal pictures.
Lots of great pics (I saved a few), but love this guy!
Ha haaa… Isn’t he just a prince?
Chillin’ like a boss.
Now this is really cool! I only just now saw it, since I’ve spent the past few hours going through the GZ thread. But yeah, I’m definitely gonna bookmark this for future reference. Thanks guys!
Okay….apparently WordPress disables certain HTML functions (“sanitizes user input”) for security reasons: http://wpmu.org/enable-or-disable-all-html-tags-in-wordpress-author-biography-profiles/
“WordPress sanitizes user input for security reasons, not just to annoy you and make you go on a hunt to find this post to learn how to override the annoying setting.
If you’re considering disabling the WordPress sanitization, make sure you trust your users to not enter potentially harmful content into their profile bios. This includes iframes, forms, and more.”
Thanks Puddy.
Guess you could not trust the casual (dog) poster who wonders in… shame.
Last try:
Is there anyway to grant “posting permissions” to just SOME people?
Just ME would do… but one or two of the others might be ok?
Here’s a site that gave me the list of allowed HTML tags… http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/17947/expanding-the-allowed-html-tags-in-comments http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.1.3/wp-includes/kses.php#L397
The following are allowed to be used by subscribers. (Beats me why they don’t allow the ‘underline’.)
‘strong’
‘strike’
‘q’
‘cite’
‘em’ or ‘i’
‘del’
‘blockquote’
‘b’
‘a’
acronyms’
‘abbr’
‘datetime’
‘href’
‘title’
‘code’
As for the “posting permission”, I’m sorry to say I’m 99% sure that won’t fly. (We had a problem with someone who abused his posting privileges last year.)
Oh noes The cad!!!!
thanks Puddy… more info for my list
One more thing to try… probably fail… heading
Heading example
What the dickens is q
That worked q = quotation
It defines a short quotation… http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_q.asp
Um……… wouldn’t it be easier to type ”
IRL yes….only useful for writing code I guess….but then, why would they offer it?
Test Title
Just testing here, testing testing testing testing testing testing
Hey, you freaked me out. I got an email notification, and so came to check out the new post. So I start reading through this, and I’m like, Hmm… this looks real familiar. Then I went back and checked my email. The notification wasn’t for new post, but new COMMENT.
So yeah, lemme get in on this… testing, testing, 1, 2, 3….!