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How to Add a WordPress Blog to Your Web Site
A lot of people use their blog as the first page of their Web site, but your blog may not be the first thing you want site visitors to see. If you want your WordPress blog on your site but don’t want to [more…]
How to Create Sidebar Templates for Your WordPress Blog
You can create separate sidebar templates for different pages of your site by using a simple includestatement. When you write an includestatement, you’re simply telling WordPress that you want it to include [more…]
How to Align Images in Your WordPress.Org Blog
Adding images to your WordPress blog is pretty easy with the WordPress image uploader. And after you load them, WordPress lets you align them so they look just the way you want them to look. [more…]
How to Pull In Specific Content on Your WordPress Blog
WordPress makes it possible to pull in very specific types of content on your Web site through the <query_posts> template tag. If you have a category called WordPress, and you want to display the last [more…]
Preparing Your Web Server to Handle a WordPress Multisite
If you have determined that you need to maintain multiple blogs you have to enable the WordPress Multisite features and then prepare your Web server to handle the WordPress Multisite. You must make a decision [more…]
How to Uninstall WordPress Plugins
If you want to uninstall a WordPress plugin, it's easy enough to do. With WordPress, you're not stuck forever with a plugin that you don't want: [more…]
How to Activate a WordPress.com Theme
Choose a theme for your WordPress.com blog, and then activate it. The WordPress.com theme (also called design or template) that you select affects the visual layout and appearance of your blog. [more…]
How to Add a Widget to Your WordPress.com Blog
WordPress widgets are very helpful tools built into the WordPress.com application. Widgets allow you to easily arrange the display of content in your blog sidebar, so you can arrange and display the content [more…]
How to Insert Video Files into Your WordPress.com Blog Posts
Whether you're producing your own videos for publication or want to embed other people's videos that you find interesting, placing a video file in a blog post has never been easier with WordPress. [more…]
How to Use WordPress Templates
WordPress offers four main templates to create your own theme. You can also edit the template tags in the theme you're currently using. Those four main templates are Header, Main Index, Sidebar, and Footer [more…]
How to Install WordPress.org
Some Web hosts now offer a one-click installation process for WordPress.org. If your host doesn't, you can do a manual install of WordPress on your Web server. Download the latest version of the [more…]
How to Add a Link to Your WordPress Blog
If you want to connect your WordPress blog to some other Web site, you can add a link so that it appears in your blog. Here's how to add a new link: [more…]
How to Arrange the WordPress Dashboard
You have the ability to arrange the order of the modules in your Dashboard to suit your tastes. WordPress places a great deal of emphasis on user experience and a big part of that effort results in your [more…]
How to Enable the WordPress Network Feature
The Network feature in WordPress allows you, the site owner, to add and maintain multiple blogs within one installation of WordPress. With the network features enabled, users of your network can run their [more…]
How to Set Up Your WordPress Network
Before you can set up your network you must enable the WordPress Network feature and decide whether to go with the subdomain or subdirectory. If you have completed those steps, the rest of the steps in [more…]
How to Insert Audio Files into Your WordPress.com Blog Posts
Adding audio files, whether music files or a recording of you speaking to your readers, adds a nice personal touch to your WordPress.com blog. You can easily insert audio files on your blog by using the [more…]
How to Install WordPress.com Plugins by Using the Plugins Feature
You can install a plugin in your WordPress.com blog by using the built-in Plugins feature. The auto-installation of plugins from within your WordPress administration panel only works for plugins that are [more…]
How to Install WordPress.org Plugins Manually
You can install plugins to your WordPress.com blog manually. As an example, install the Subscribe to Comments plugin. [more…]
Finding WordPress Resources and Tools
If you use WordPress as the platform for your blog or Web site, you can use any or all of the many tools WordPress offers. The following list helps you find some of these helpful resources. [more…]
Basic HTML and CSS Markup for WordPress Themes
When you work with WordPress themes to create web designs, you use basic HTML, combined with CSS styling, to accomplish the formatting and styling you desire for your Web site. Here's a rundown of some [more…]
Image-Editing Software for WordPress Web Design
When you work with graphics (including digital photographs) for Web design, you work with two file types: raster and vector. When you create, edit, or manipulate those files, you use graphic- or photo-editing [more…]
Finding WordPress Theme Resources
Why reinvent the wheel? WordPress has an active development community that has created free and commercial themes that are available for download and ready for you to customize for your next WordPress [more…]
Ad Networks for Mom Bloggers
The best ad network partner is one who will run ads that are a great match for your blog content. That way, the ads will be as relevant as possible to your blog readers. The following list provides many [more…]
Blogging Topics for Mom Bloggers
When you're first thinking about starting a blog, it can be hard to think of all the possible directions you can go and to choose a strong niche for your blog topic. This list of over 300 blog topic ideas [more…]
Protecting Your Blog from Copyright Infringement
You can use online tools to find out if any of your content has been copied by another website and to take action if your work has been plagiarized to get the copied content dropped out of Google's search [more…]
