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How to Assign a Static Page as the Front Page in WordPress
With Wordpress, you can use your website’s front page as a static page or portal, which can include a link to an internal blog page. A portal is a page that contains snippets from other sections of your [more…]
How to Create Different Sidebar and Footer Templates for Your Pages
WordPress allows you to create separate Sidebar and Footer templates for different pages of your WordPress site by using a simple include statement. When you write an [more…]
Adding a Blog to Your Website
With WordPress Dashboard, you can add a blog to anywhere within your website, not just the front page. To create a blog for your site with Dashboard, first you need to create a blank page. [more…]
Ten Good Websites That Use WordPress as a CMS
A tremendous number of well-designed WordPress sites are floating around the web. Sometimes, you can look at a website and not even know if it’s a blog or a site built with blogging software. [more…]
Ten Powerful Plugins for WordPress Design
WordPress offers hundreds of powerful plugins that provide multiple ways to extend your website’s functionality. Many more plugins can be found on the [more…]
How to Insert an Image from a PC into a WordPress Post or Page
With the WordPress image uploader (and its Add an Image dialog box), adding images to a post or page is easy. You can add images in two ways — either from a location on the web [more…]
How to Insert a Photo Gallery into a WordPress Page or Blog Post
The first step in creating a photo gallery is to upload images to your WordPress site. After uploading the images, you can insert a full photo gallery into your pages [more…]
How to Manually Install Commercial WordPress Plugins via FTP
Manually installing commercial plugins isn’t as easy as installing free plugins from the Plugin Directory page within the Dashboard. Commercial (or paid) plugins require that you install them manually [more…]
How to Insert Images from the Web into a WordPress Post or Page
Adding images to a post or page is easy with the WordPress image uploader (via the Add an Image dialog box). You can add images in two ways — either from a location on the web [more…]
How to Add Image Alignment Styles to WordPress Stylesheets
When uploading images, you can set alignment to None, Left, Center, or Right. Not all WordPress theme stylesheets have these alignment styles. If you set an image’s alignment to Left, but the image on [more…]
How to Alter Images in a Wordpress Gallery Using HTML
After uploading images to a WordPress photo gallery, you can edit the page using HTML to manually set the display settings for your photo gallery. [more…]
WordPress Category Templates
Using Page and Category templates, you can provide a different type of reader experience by defining the style with CSS and the features and functions with template tags. [more…]
Free WordPress Plugins for Creating a Photo Gallery or Portfolio
Some great WordPress plugins work in tandem with the WordPress gallery feature. Photo galleries enable you to include a gallery or portfolio of visual design work, such as web designers and logo designers [more…]
Edit a WordPress Theme to Include Photo Gallery Styles
A WordPress photo gallery is useful for anyone who needs to include a portfolio of visual design work. To make the photo gallery look the way you like, edit the stylesheet for your theme to include the [more…]
How to Add Web Forms for a WordPress Site Using Plugins
Some website owners need a way for visitors to provide them information through forms, such as order forms, customer surveys, or readership data collection. Examples of forms you can build include: [more…]
Integrating Social Networks with a WordPress Site
You can integrate your social network membership on Facebook or Twitter into your WordPress website through the use of plugins that help your readers also connect with you on those networks. Lots of people [more…]
Choosing the Width of Your WordPress Website
Every website starts with a layout that takes width into consideration. When designing your WordPress website, keep in mind the differences between fixed and fluid widths. [more…]
Building a WordPress Social Community with BuddyPress
The BuddyPress plugin for WordPress enables you to include a social community for visitors to participate in as members. Members of a BuddyPress social community can immediately connect with other members [more…]
Designing a WordPress Website with a Fixed Width
When designing a WordPress website, you can present information as fixed width or fluid width. Fixed width is a static width of a set number of pixels that stays the same size no matter how big or small [more…]
How to Design WordPress Websites with Fluid Width
A WordPress website designed with a fluid width layout has a flexible width. Unlike a fixed width layout, a fluid width layout can expand or contract in width, based on the screen resolution used by the [more…]
How to Optimize Your Post and Page Titles for Search Engines
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the practice of preparing your WordPress website to make it as easy as possible for the major search engines to crawl it and cache your data in their systems so that [more…]
How to Write Content with Keywords for Search Engines
Your blog posts and pages on your WordPress website should contain keywords to ensure that search engines display your content in the first page of results so that people will find your site. [more…]
How to Use WordPress Categories to Attract Search Engines
The names you give the categories you’ve created provide rich keywords that attract search engines to your WordPress website. To get your site to rise to the top of search results, you'll want to make [more…]
How to Use the ALT Attribution for Images in WordPress
To extend SEO (search engine optimization) in WordPress, you can add keywords to your site by placing ALT attributes within in your image tags to further define and describe the images. You can accomplish [more…]
Color Palettes for Your WordPress Website
Choose color schemes for your WordPress website with confidence after you review some basic color theory and terminology. Making the decision on a color scheme that’s just right can be very time-consuming [more…]
