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Mom Blogging For Dummies Cheat Sheet
The mom-blogging community is made up of such a wide range of blog topics that the only thing mom bloggers all have in common is motherhood. Mom bloggers are natural networkers and usually extremely helpful [more…]
Upgrading Your WordPress.com Software
New releases of WordPress occur roughly every 120 days. Don’t be discouraged or frustrated by the number of times you’ll upgrade your WordPress installation. Each upgrade improves security and adds new [more…]
How to Self-Host Your Blogs with WordPress.org
The self-installed version from WordPress.org requires you to download software from the WordPress website. The WordPress.org website is an excellent repository of tools and resources for you throughout [more…]
Hosting Multiple Blogs with One WordPress Installation
The self-hosted WordPress.org software lets you run an unlimited number of blogs on one installation of its software platform, on one domain. When you configure the options within WordPress to enable a [more…]
Using PHP to Change WordPress Template Tags
Before you play around with template tags in your WordPress templates or plugin functions, you need to understand what makes up a template tag and why, as well as the correct syntax, or function, for a [more…]
How to Use Fantastico to Install WordPress Files
Fantastico is a very popular script installer that you can use to install WordPress software on your hosting account. Not all hosts make Fantastico available. If yours doesn’t, you can install WordPress [more…]
Downloading the WordPress Software and Uploading Your WordPress Files
Before you can install WordPress manually, you have to download the WordPress software and upload the software to your server. None of this is difficult. So without further ado, get the latest version [more…]
How to Secure Your WordPress Configuration File
Your WordPress configuration files contain private information that you will want to protect against hackers who might find the valuable information stored in the wp-config.php file attractive. If someone [more…]
Using WordPress’s Main Configuration Settings
After Your WordPress configuration file (wp-config.php) is nice and secure, you need to know what’s stored within it so you can reference it and understand how WordPress communicates with the database [more…]
Optimizing the WordPress Configuration File
Optimizing your WordPress configuration file (wp-config.php) can change some of WordPress’s default behaviors and improve the speed at which your website loads. Improving the way WordPress works is easy [more…]
Set Up FTP on Your WordPress Blog Hosting Account
If you need to set up FTP for your WordPress blog, it’s easy. Many web hosts offer FTP as part of their hosting packages, so just confirm that your hosting provider makes FTP available to you for your [more…]
How to Personalize Your WordPress Blog
After you install the WordPress software and log in, you can put a personal stamp on your blog by giving it a title and description, setting your contact e-mail address, and identifying yourself as the [more…]
How to Manage Comments on Your WordPress Blog
What would your WordPress blog be if it didn’t include discussions and allow comments from your readers? But because what appears on your blog reflects on you, WordPress offers you options to control who [more…]
Using the WordPress Custom Fields Interface
With WordPress themes, templates, and template tags, Custom Fields auto-formatted data allows for flexibility in defining your blog posts. The Custom Fields module appears on the Write Post and Write Page [more…]
Entering Code into Your WordPress Template File
If you are customizing your WordPress blog theme by using HTML code, adding the template tag to your WordPress theme will smooth the appearance of your blog after you have assigned a name and value to [more…]
How to Hide a WordPress Custom Field
If you have added Custom Fields to your WordPress blog template, you might not always want them on display. WordPress has a self-check search enabling blog posts without the Custom Field to appear automatically [more…]
Adding Custom Navigation Menus to Your WordPress Blog
Navigational menus are vital parts of your WordPress blog’s design. They tell your site visitors where to go and how to access important information or areas on your site. The WordPress Menus feature offers [more…]
How to Create Page Views Using WordPress Templates
A static WordPress page contains content that doesn’t appear on your blog page, but rather as a separate page within your site. You can have numerous static pages on your WordPress site, and each page [more…]
How to Create Sidebar Templates on Your WordPress Website
You can create separate sidebar templates for different pages of your WordPress site by using a simple include statement in your code. When you write an include statement, you’re telling WordPress that [more…]
How to Create Content Types for Your WordPress Website
A new feature in WordPress (new as of version 3.0) is a feature called custom post types. This feature allows you, the site owner, to create different content types for your WordPress site that give you [more…]
How to Optimize Your WordPress Blog for Search Engines
You want people to find your WordPress blog, otherwise you wouldn’t be taking the time to write it. WordPress is equipped to create an environment that’s friendly to search engines, giving them easy navigation [more…]
How to Install WordPress Plugins
Users love WordPress not only because it’s a great program for web publishing, but also because it’s free and support is free. And everyone loves all the free plugins that enhance WordPress blogs and websites [more…]
Five Free WordPress Plugins to Try
WordPress makes it easy to extend functionality through the use of plugins. Jump into the world of plugins by trying one (or all) of these free popular plugins in the WordPress Plugin Directory designed [more…]
Advanced Configuration for the WordPress WP Super Cache Plugin
The popular WordPress plugin — WP Super Cache — requires advanced configuration. That is, this isn’t a “set it and forget it” type of plugin. To use this WordPress plugin, you need to perform additional [more…]
Installing and Configuring the WordPress.com Stats Plugin
The WordPress.com Stats plugin provides fairly comprehensive statistics about your website traffic, such as the number of visits, where your visitors are coming from and what content they are viewing on [more…]
