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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 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…]
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…]
How to Determine What Kind of WordPress Designer You Are
These days, the term designer encompasses many things relating to the world of WordPress web design. A WordPress graphic designer has the ability and creativity to create graphics from scratch, or to modify [more…]
Set Up a Domain Name for Your WordPress Website
The first steps toward installing and setting up a WordPress website are making a decision about a domain name and then purchasing the registration of that name through a domain registrar. A [more…]
Register a Domain Name for a WordPress Blog or Site
Before you can even think about building themes and designing with WordPress, the first step is registering a domain name for your new site. Setting up WordPress correctly the first time is important and [more…]
Find a Home for Your Website before Working with WordPress
After you register your domain, you need to find a place for it to live — a web host — before you begin working with WordPress. A web host is a business, group, or individual that provides website owners [more…]
Compare Web Hosting Services
Basic requirements need to be in place before you can install WordPress on a web server. Explore web hosting environments and know which factors to take into consideration to determine the type of hosting [more…]
How Much Bandwidth for Your WordPress Website?
When it comes to bandwidth and hard drive space for website hosting, take into consideration what type of website you’re building. Whether designing for yourself or a client, plan ahead to avoid potential [more…]
Differences between Blogs and Websites on WordPress
You can build and design more than just a blog with WordPress. Begin to realize the potential of the software and how you can apply it to your website-building efforts. [more…]
Use WordPress as a Content Management System
A term that you will hear regularly in the WordPress community is the term CMS, which stands for content management system. Whether you run a blog, a website, or both, you use WordPress to manage your [more…]
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…]
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…]
