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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…]
How to Disable a WordPress Network
At some point, you may decide that running a network of sites on WordPress isn’t for you, and you may find that you want to disable the multisite feature completely. Before disabling the network, save [more…]
Network Administration Basics: Administering Your WordPress Network
After you enable the WordPress network option, you become a network administrator, which means you have some new responsibilities. As a network admin, you can access the Network Admin menu, which includes [more…]
Managing Your WordPress Network Settings
WordPress’s Network Admin Dashboard has its own set of menus separate from the regular Site Admin Dashboard. Those menus provide all the tools you need to manage your WordPress network. All the items in [more…]
Stopping Spam Sign-Ups and Splogs on Your WordPress Network
If you choose to have open sign-ups on your WordPress network, any member of the public can register and create a new site on your network. At some point, automated bots run by malicious users and spammers [more…]
How to Allow User Registration on Your WordPress Network
When you enable your WordPress network, new site and new user registrations are turned off, by default. However, as the network administrator you can add new sites and users from the WordPress Network [more…]
How to Apply One Theme on Multiple WordPress Sites
If you want a consistent design across your entire WordPress network, you can apply one theme to multiple WordPress sites. For example, you may have a custom theme specially made for the main site in your [more…]
Gathering and Displaying Content Across Your WordPress Network
Handy WordPress plugins enable you to gather content from sites across your WordPress network to display on the front page of your network’s main site. You can also list network sites and display comments [more…]
Using and Installing Plugins Across Your WordPress Network
WordPress lets you use plugins network-wide to perform an action globally across all sites in the network. Sometimes, you might see these referred to as sitewide plugins, which is old WordPress MU terminology [more…]
How to Write Your First Blog Entry
Composing a WordPress blog post is a lot like typing an e-mail: You give it a title, you write the message, and you click a button to send your words into the world. Follow these steps to write a basic [more…]
How to Publish a Post on Your WordPress Blog
After you write a post on your WordPress blog, give your new post a title, maybe add an image or other type of media file to your blog post, and configure the tags, categories, and other options, you have [more…]
Archiving Your WordPress Posts
When you create a post on your WordPress blog, you can file that post under a category that you specify. This feature makes for a nifty archiving system in which you and your readers can find articles/posts [more…]
Additional Settings for Managing Your WordPress Network
In addition to choosing options on the Network Settings Page, when you create a WordPress Network you must also manage sites, users, themes, plugins, and updates. These settings are accessed by clicking [more…]
How to Install WordPress Plugins Manually
It is not often that you will need to install a WordPress plugin manually because WordPress makes it so easy to install plugins through the Dashboard. However, in case you need to, the mechanics of downloading [more…]
Using a MySQL Database to Manage Your WordPress Blog Data
Many new WordPress users are intimidated by the MySQL database. But WordPress bloggers don’t ever have to dig into the database unless they want to. You only need to explore the database if you’re dealing [more…]
Search Engine Optimization on your WordPress Website
Improving your website’s rankings in Search Engine Results Pages (SERP) is accomplished by applying recognized Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques. Placing high in a list of results returned by [more…]
How to Find and Install Free WordPress Themes
Free WordPress themes found in the Free Themes Directory are easy to install and use. These appealing themes are great tools for launching new sites, and you can customize themes with Cascading Style Sheets [more…]
Windows NotePad and NotePad++ Text Editor for WordPress Code
Make sure you use a text editor, like NotePad, and not a word processor, such as Microsoft Word, to write any code for WordPress because a word processing program automatically inserts formatting, characters [more…]
How to Create a WordPress Static Page
A static page is a web page that is not dynamically updated, chronologically like a blog. It can serve as a portal to a blog, portfolio, and other sections of your site. [more…]
How to Apply the Twenty Ten Theme in WordPress
The default theme in WordPress, Twenty Ten lets new users apply a clean-looking theme that utilizes many of the built-in display features standard to a basic WordPress install. These display features include [more…]
