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Setting Up a Test Site to Test Your WordPress.com Plugins
Because WordPress changes so often, it is useful to create a test site on which you can install and run the WordPress software and plugins to test them before applying them to your live website. If you [more…]
Where to Find Technical Support for WordPress Plugins
Everyone who uses plugins on their WordPress website or blog has had this happen at some point: They find the perfect plugin but have no idea how to use it. What can you do when you can’t figure out how [more…]
User Roles and Capabilities on WordPress
Before you start adding new users to your WordPress website or blog, you need to understand the differences among the user roles because each user role is assigned a different level of access and grouping [more…]
How to Add New Users to Your WordPress Blog or Website
When users register on your WordPress blog or website, you get an e-mail notification (sent to the e-mail address you set on the General Settings page), so you always know when new users register, and [more…]
How to Change User Accounts on Your WordPress Blog
After users register and settle into their accounts on your WordPress website or blog, you, as the site administrator, have the ability to edit their user information. You may never have to edit your WordPress [more…]
Great Plugins for Managing a Multi-Author WordPress Site
You may love running a multi-author site, but even on WordPress it has its challenges. WordPress tools can help you manage your multi-author site and make your site more interactive by adding features [more…]
Deciding Whether to Allow Comments on Your WordPress Site
Do you want to allow others to leave comments on your WordPress site? Many blog users say that a blog without comments isn’t a blog at all (because the point of having a blog is to foster communication [more…]
Activating Akismet to Control Spam on Your WordPress Blog
No blogger likes spam. In fact, blogging services such as WordPress have spent untold hours in the name of stopping these spammers in their tracks. All WordPress installations have one significant thing [more…]
How to Organize Links on Your WordPress Blog
The WordPress Dashboard lets you organize your links by creating link categories in the Dashboard and then assigning links to the appropriate categories. These categories let you share links with other [more…]
WordPress Custom Fields Data Display
Adding Custom Fields to your WordPress template files facilitates proper data display on your WordPress blog. To get the data to display properly, you must open the template files and dig into the code [more…]
How to Use WordPress Categories to Organize Your Content
In WordPress, a category is what you determine to be the main topic of a blog post. By using categories on your WordPress blog, you can file your blog posts into topics by subject. To improve your readers’ [more…]
How to Format Your WordPress Blog Post
When you write your blog post, WordPress provides a Visual Editing mode, as indicated by the Visual tab that appears above the text. Visual Editing mode provides WYSIWYG [more…]
How to Customize Your WordPress Workspace for Writing
To write a post for your WordPress blog, you open the Add New Post page. There you have options that let you arrange the WordPress workspace and create a custom environment that suits your writing needs [more…]
Creating a Front Page for Your WordPress Website
For the most part, when you visit a blog powered by WordPress, the blog appears on the main page. But you can create a front page that contains no blog and displays no blog posts. The typical set up shows [more…]
Creating a Static Front Page for Your WordPress Website
Creating a front page for your WordPress website is a three-step process: Create a static page, designate that static page as the front page of your site, and tweak the page to look like a website, rather [more…]
How to Add a Blog to Your WordPress Website
If you want a blog on your WordPress website but don’t want to display the blog on the front page, you can add one from the WordPress Dashboard. To create the blog for your site, first follow these steps [more…]
WordPress Plugins for Podcasters
If you have a WordPress website, there are several WordPress plugins that can help you create podcasts. When you podcast, you provide regular episodes of an audio show that your visitors can download to [more…]
How to Manage Your WordPress Media Files
The WordPress Media Library provides a convenient and easy way to track and organize the media files in your Uploads folder. After all, if you’ve been running your WordPress blog for any length of time [more…]
How to Pull Content into Your WordPress Website
WordPress makes it possible to pull in very specific types of content on your website through the <query_posts> template tag. This template tag lets you specify which category you want to pull information [more…]
When Should You Use WordPress’s Network Feature?
Determining whether to use the WordPress multisite feature depends on user access and posting. Each site in the network, although sharing the same codebase and users, is still a self-contained unit. Users [more…]
Hosting Environment Requirements on WordPress
Before you enable the WordPress multisite feature, you need to determine whether you plan to manage just a few of your own WordPress blogs or websites, or run a full-blown blogging network with several [more…]
Adding a Virtual Host to the Apache Configuration
Before you enable the WordPress multisite feature, you need to edit and configure Apache server files by adding a hostname record pointing at your web server in the DNS configuration tool available in [more…]
Enabling the WordPress Network Feature
By default, access to WordPress network settings is disabled to ensure that users don’t set up their network without researching all that the setup entails. Setting up a network is more than configuring [more…]
How to Choose Between Subdirectories and Subdomains for Your WordPress Network
Before you start setting up your WordPress network, the Create a Network page lets you choose the URL format of sites you are adding beneath the Addresses of Sites in your Network heading. By default, [more…]
Installing a Network on Your WordPress.com Site
After you have edited and configured your Apache code and enabled the Network feature for your WordPress site, you are finally ready to install the actual network. The Network Details heading on the Create [more…]
